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Childhood trauma in the classroom

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Childhood trauma in the classroom  - There is a misconception that children are more resilient than adults to the effects of trauma and will ‘outgrow’ traumatic experiences (Lieberman & Knorr, 2007). However, new understandings in developmental and neuroscience research have challenged popular ideas about trauma and brain development during childhood. This research can help educators and

The Scientific Push To Declassify Transgender As A Mental Disorder

The Scientific Push To Declassify Transgender As A Mental Disorder  - “The definition of transgender identity as a mental disorder has been ... University in Western Australia “This study prompts primary caregivers and ...

Youths urged to reach out for help as suicide rates reach 13 year high

Youths urged to reach out for help as suicide rates reach 13 year high  - Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed suicide ... “A lot of the time when someone is suicidal they don't reach out for help,” ...

Wise, worldly and working: Age discrimination and employment

Wise, worldly and working: Age discrimination and employment  - The report on the AHRC's inquiry, called Willing to Work: National Inquiry into Employment Discrimination Against Older Australians and Australians  ...

We have to do better as a nation

We have to do better as a nation  - Put simply, 25 years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in ... this type of abuse should not have an opportunity to occur in Australia .

Excuse me officer, can you help me please, I'm trying to find justice for Indigenous Australians

Excuse me officer, can you help me please, I'm trying to find justice for Indigenous Australians  - The people at the office of the Well Meaning White Progressives Association might be able to help you, they're down this way ... Sign up here to get an ...

The narrative of victimhood is real

The narrative of victimhood is real  - Several years ago I disaggregated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wealth quotients from the rest of the Australian population and the ...

Northern Territory detention inquiry must address racism, say Indigenous advocates

Northern Territory detention inquiry must address racism, say Indigenous advocates  - Amnesty International's Australian Indigenous rights campaigner, Roxanne Moore, said it was “not a mistake that this is happening to Indigenous ...

Policies Must Be Made With Aboriginal People, Not For Them

Policies Must Be Made With Aboriginal People, Not For Them  - The Four Corners program shone a national floodlight on Aboriginal and ... Aboriginal children and young people in accordance with Australia's  ...

Withdrawing Support Will Increase Dispossession In Aboriginal Communities, Not Resolve It

Withdrawing Support Will Increase Dispossession In Aboriginal Communities, Not Resolve It  - This plan is in direct conflict with Australia’s commitment to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , which states that Indigenous peoples have the right to live in their own communities without discrimination, and are entitled to Government support to do so. Furthermore, it states that actions are not permitted if they are likely to have the effect of dispossessing people of their lands.

Nothing Else Works': Only Self-Determination Can Stop Another Don Dale

Nothing Else Works': Only Self-Determination Can Stop Another Don Dale  - Described as a process of choice for Indigenous Australians to ensure they can meet cultural, social and economic needs, the Commission says, “the ...

Top 10 books about the Australian bush

Top 10 books about the Australian bush  - Flashbacks to an earlier life in Western Australia deftly capture the ... forest, where their Indigenous Australian neighbours “flickered amongst the trees, ...

Screen Australia backs science, slum docs

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Screen Australia backs science, slum docs  - The government's plan to close 150 remote Indigenous communities in Western Australia and its social and economic impact on the Kimberley people ...

Young Gay Republican Explains Why He's Okay with GOP's Homophobic Platform

Young Gay Republican Explains Why He's Okay with GOP's Homophobic Platform  - After the GOP stunned the political world with its most anti-LGBT platform in the party's 162-year history with provisions supporting gay conversion ...

Homophobia Is the Real Monster in 'Stranger Things'

Homophobia Is the Real Monster in 'Stranger Things'  - But for the everyday humans in the suburban town, the monster they encounter most frequently is homophobia . In fact, nearly every episode of the ...

Star Trek Discovery needs to push boundaries with a new gay character

Star Trek Discovery needs to push boundaries with a new gay character  - Star Trek Discovery needs to push boundaries with a new gay character .... In the original series Sulu was not portrayed as gay but the actor who played ... as a young teen watching reruns on Australian television in the early 1990s.

Millionaire landlord reveals how he got rich

Millionaire landlord reveals how he got rich - Mt Albert man Jonathan Bidmead, 53, says he went from being a storeman in a Newton computer business to being made redundant, to now owning 14 Auckland and New Plymouth properties with 20 residences worth more than $12.5 million and generating just under $400,000 annually.

Economist predicts Brexit-like shift in attitudes towards housing

Economist predicts Brexit-like shift in attitudes towards housing  - conomist Shamubeel Eaqub believes New Zealand is heading for a Brexit-style shift in attitudes towards state intervention in housing. Eaqub says populist movements such as Britain's vote to leave Europe show people power is on the rise, and he predicts housing will be New Zealand politics' sorest point. 

New Zealand social experiment tests if people stop to help a lost elderly woman

New Zealand social experiment tests if people stop to help a lost elderly woman  - A video produced by the New Zealand Police features an elderly woman, ... and confused as she stands on a busy footpath and people walk by.

Digicel announces free access to Facebook on its network in PNG

Digicel announces free access to Facebook on its network in PNG  - Digicel is the only telecoms operator in PNG to provide this free Facebook service to its smartphone users, thus giving thousands of people the ...

Prisons are a place of crime not rehabilitation

Prisons are a place of crime not rehabilitation  - A Māori academic is calling for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand's criminal justice system. Kim Workman made his recommendations ...

Māori HIV organisation acknowledged for inspiring work

Māori HIV organisation acknowledged for inspiring work  - Co-Chair of the foundation, Apihaka Mack says, "It's the first time an Indigenous, Māori , Pacific Island or New Zealand group has been acknowledged ...

New quit service targets Pacific smokers

New quit service targets Pacific smokers  -  Organisers say the Stop Smoking Service also seeks to improve smoke-free numbers among Maori and pregnant woman. The Fono, Auckland's largest Pacific-owned health provider, will drive the project for the Auckland and Waitemata district health board region.

Kapa influencing unique Maori sound

Kapa influencing unique Maori sound  - Some of those who take part in the Maori Music Month workshops will be asked to appear as guest artists at this year's Waiata Maori Music Awards, ...