Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

How young is too young? Charged, tried, and imprisoned at the age of 10  - At what age should a child in Australia be held criminally responsible for their actions? Why do we criminalise and imprison very young children ?

The honest conversation we need to have about fat people  - Consider that 63 per cent of Australian adults are overweight or obese and ... I know that when it comes to talking about your health , I'm about as credible as ... We should treat obesity for what it is, a behavioural health issue, like ...

Aboriginal self-determination key to life-saving health efforts  - NACCHOs are Australia's largest single national and preferred primary healthcare system for Aboriginal people. The importance of the sector is widely ...

New heads appointed to Australian child prisoner abuse inquiry  - An aboriginal leader and a retired judge will lead the probe into the abuse of child prisoners after the former head quit. The affair has refueled criticism ...

Don't kill recognition chance by chasing folly - Mr Shorten demonstrated his commitment to indigenous affairs when, earlier this year, he was presented with a Senate vacancy after West Australian  ...

Violence Against Women Is Not Just A Social Malaise, It's Also About The Economy Stupid  - And if we now look at the annual cost of domestic violence, it costs the world a ... In Australia , violence against women and children costs an estimated ...

Close male family members likeliest killers  - Even before Port Arthur-related gun control laws were introduced, gun violence was relatively rare in Australia . About 55 per cent of convicted ...

You Can Now Shop At Myer To Help Women Escaping Family Violence  - One in six Australian women have experienced physical or sexual violence from a current or former partner while one in four women have ...

Online census could pose a challenge for older Australians  - Next week's census will be primarily conducted online and there are fears thousands of older Australians may be excluded due to the change.

SA set to remove discrimination against LGBTI people  - The South Australian Parliament has passed an amendment to current law to allow for more inclusive langigae in legislation and remove gender bias.

Gays 'are better qualified for jobs'  -  Australians identifying as gay , lesbian or bisexual are better qualified and earn more, according to one of the few studies into the economic effects of ...

Shorten's push for Indigenous treaty a 'bridge too far' say Coalition MPs - Coalition MPs have warned the Opposition Leader's push for a treaty with Indigenous people would be a "bridge too far" for many Australians and ...

The principle of unity is at stake  -  Australia has already spent too much to solve problems the responsibility of Aboriginal communities themselves. Aboriginal leaders must now declare ...

Gassing of Indigenous youth in Australian detention system reeks of colonialism  - Last week, shocking footage depicting security personnel in a Northern Territory (NT) juvenile detention center teargasing and torturing indigenous  ...

Head of Australian prison abuse inquiry quits, replaced by aboriginal leader  -  Aborigines comprise just three percent of Australia's population but make up 27 percent of those in prison and 94 percent of juvenile inmates in the ...

Sonia Kruger Keeps Digging, Says LGBTQIA Scholarships Are "Discrimination"  - On this morning's 'Today', the hosts discussed the Australian Business and Community Network Scholarship Foundation (ABCN) offering a specific ...

Rise in foreign buyers in Auckland  - "The evidence tells us that particular question, 2.2, people are misunderstanding that and we do need to improve that guidance," Land Information's deputy chief executive Russell Turner said. The foreign buyer question seemed to exclude international students and people on temporary tax rates.

New Zealanders top list of Australian immigrant detentions  -  New Zealand nationals now make up the largest group of detainees being held in Australian immigration detention, the latest government statistics ...

West Papuans in PNG grateful for land allocations  - A construction officer with the West Papuan Relief Association said the community's spirits had been lifted by the National Capital District Commission's allocation of 10 hectares in the Red Hills suburb of Gerehu.

Ministry for Vulnerable Children name 'stigmatising and labelling'  - After all, at least 65 per cent of those in state care or the youth justice system are Maori , and Te Reo is an official language of Aotearoa New Zealand .

Gisborne the city of two people, one story  - A number of Māori warriors, including at least one chief, were killed by Cook's ... Māori Party co-leader Marama Fox said New Zealand should also ...

Action wanted over high Māori youth suicide rates  -  New Zealand's youth suicide rate is one of the highest among OECD countries, and the Māori youth suicide rate is 2.8 times the non- Māori rate.

Colonisation link to abuse should be considered  - Suggestions by Professor Leonie Pihama - that colonisation of New Zealand in the 1800s led to child abuse among Maori today - has to be one of the ...

First Nations panel inspires feminist conference - Wiradjuri and Maori woman, Latoya Rule, a social work student at Flinders University, described how difficult it often is for women trying to see a ...