Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Renewables can benefit Tassie's regions  - Researchers found risks posed by climate change to health , environmental assets, ... As a result, Australia's agricultural sector is showing signs of decreasing ... Regional communities are often poorly equipped to deal with health  ...

Fighting poverty ' key to global health  - "The challenge of global health is nested with our drive to fight poverty ," he told the Committee for Economic Development in Australia (CEDA).

Government policy and Indigenous incarceration rates  - The doubling of the prison population in less than two decades, the overcrowded prisons, the high reoffending lives, the outrageous incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, the horrific death toll in the first year post-release.

Lauren sees an opportunity  - Jaki Adams-Barton, manager of the Indigenous Australia Program at The Fred Hollows Foundation, said the initiative is key to filling the gap for ...

Boomers bond with patriotic passion  - Beneath the slight American twang in the voice of Patty Mills lies an impeccable Australian spirit. Mills, an indigenous Australian who has been plying ...

How same sex couples are getting married without leaving the country - While other countries around the world recognised same sex marriage, at this stage it is only the British consulate who will conduct them in Australia .

How One Novelist Is Fighting Gay Conversion Therapy in Ecuador  - In 2013, César L. Baquerizo's novel about the horrors of gay reparative therapy in his native Ecuador, Un Lugar Seguro Contigo ("a safe place with you"), was first published in Spanish. Otherwise known as "conversion therapy," gay reparative therapy is a slate of "psychological treatments" intended to convert patients from homosexual to heterosexual.

ACTU votes to support marriage equality and oppose plebiscite  - The Australian Council of Trade Unions' executive has passed a motion in favour of same-sex marriage, opposing a plebiscite and calling for Malcolm ...

Artist Marina Abramovic calls indigenous Australians dinosaurs in memoir passage  - Terrible' and 'like dinosaurs' are the words used to describe indigenous Australians by a world famous performance artist in her upcoming memoir.

From an Aboriginal mission to the UN: shifting perceptions on self-determination  - When I was growing up the gates were still up. These gates kept our people on the mission, and locked others out. At seven in the morning they opened, and at seven each night they closed. When I was a little older, they took the gates down. That is, they took the actual gates themselves off, but the posts remained: a big square arch.

New Brisbane Bridge Honours An Indigenous Pioneer - Neville Bonner, Australia's first-ever Indigenous parliamentarian, is set to have his name associated with Brisbane's newest bridge connecting the city ...

Indigenous woman died in police custody after notification service not used  - Her death is the first in the 16-year history of the CNS, which is supposed to be used to contact the Aboriginal Legal Service every time an Indigenous person is arrested. Instead, it was a month before the ALS was notified the Aboriginal woman Rebecca Maher had died in custody.

Greens urge government to revive Indigenous work program CDEP  - The CDEP [Community Development Employment Program] was wages,” the Greens senator Rachel Siewert told Guardian Australia . “Everything ...

Beef boom creating plenty of job and investment opportunities for Indigenous Land Corporation ...  - The ILC's agribusiness subsidiary - National Indigenous Pastoral Enterprises (NIPE) - is Australia's 15th biggest cattle producer, with a herd of nearly ...

The brutality of failed Australian penal estates  - How then do Australian governments explain the failed penal estate? ... But the Northern Territory and Western Australia have Aboriginal and Torres ...

With safety concerns rising, Australia tightens rules on athletes in Rio  -  Australia has also advised its athletes to stay in groups of three, and if ... Filipe Techera, a gay resident of Rio, explains what life is like for LGBT people ...

Marijuana Policy In The U.K. And New Zealand : Medical Applications And Public Support  - Furthermore, the survey also showed that 82 percent of New Zealanders believe that terminal patients should be able to use cannabis to relieve pain, ...

Wests Papuans seek Maori support  - A member of a West Papua support group is asking for Maori to join those putting pressure on the Indonesian government for a referendum on the ...

Improving outcomes in cancer diagnosis and research  - With regards prostate cancer, Professor Lawrenson said that of the 36,000 men they looked at, aged 40 and over, Māori men were more likely to be ...

Plan overlay better than court action - The Minister for Maori Development is warning the Auckland Council may have created ongoing problems for itself by dropping an overlay of sites of ...

Study show difference in NZ genepools  - Dr Chambers says the research into tissue typing and blood group analysis showed that Maori and Pasifika are more likely to find donors from within ...

No Maori housing under Unitary Plan - The chief executive of the National Urban Maori Authority says the Auckland Unitary Plan won't help Maori in the city find affordable accommodation.

Maori cannabis toll unacceptable  - "I think it's unacceptable that so many Maori are in oprison for possession. There needs to be a far better way of both reducing our incarceration as ...

Study confirms golden staph a public health threat to children  - Governments also need to reduce the burden and impact of these infections with a focus on Indigenous and Māori /Pacific children. Doctors should ...