Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Ketamine May Be The Next Great Hope In Treating Mental Illness  - The largest clinical trial of ketamine for the ongoing treatment of depression has been launched across Australia and New Zealand this week.

Police given greater powers to combat domestic and family violence  - The government is also pushing to have the DVOs automatically recognised throughout Australia under a National Domestic Violence Order Scheme.

Parents should expect they'll have to help their kids buy a house  - That is causing some intergenerational issues in housing, which is a bigger question than “is there a housing bubble or not” according to RBA governor Glenn Stevens in the full transcript of his interview with the Australian and Wall Street Journal.

Research helps treatment of heart attacks and angina in Aboriginal people  - Research carried out by The University of Western Australia into the management of Aboriginal heart patients has found that while treatment is ...

Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on "sacred land"  - South Australia is at the heart of a debate over the nation's nuclear future that highlights a familiar tension between quick economic gain and long-term custodianship of land occupied by Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years.

Hundreds of same-sex couples already getting married in Australia  -  Gay marriages in Australia are at an all-time high. ... figures have revealed hundreds of couples are already getting married on Australian shores.

ACTU votes to support marriage equality and oppose plebiscite  - The ACTU motion stated that “all people in Australia must be treated equally by the ... Australian Marriage Equality has welcomed the move, National ...

Tasmania seeks to protect 'freedom of religion' ahead of gay marriage debate  - Tasmania seeks to protect 'freedom of religion' ahead of gay marriage ... The Australian Christian Lobby's Mark Brown welcomed the Government's ...

Giving and volunteering in culturally and linguistically diverse and Indigenous communities  - DSS, on behalf of the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership, recently commissioned a research report to better understand volunteering and giving within culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and Indigenous communities.

Gordon urges corporates to get behind youth clubs HEALTH  - Dr Gordon, the organisation’s president, says that from boxing to basketball, education and employment, to drug and crime prevention, many young Aboriginal people from across Western Australia have been closely involved with PCYCs, which this year celebrates its 75th year of operation.

Artist's bizarre racist rant on Aborigines  - A SERBIAN performance artist has attempted to defend her description of Australia's indigenous population as looking “terrible”, “strange and ...

My only goal in life is to be a catalyst for change”  - Ziggy’s introduction to music was a family affair, and he credits much of it to his parents. “Dad’s self-taught on the guitar so we always grew up in a house full of music, I mucked around with guitar and a bit of piano here and there,” he says. “No matter what, there was always music in the house.”

Comments About Indigenous Australians from Marina Abramović's Forthcoming Memoir to be ...  - Abramović’s words are from a 1979 diary entry, when she was in the Sydney Biennale and still with her collaborator/lover Frank Uwe Laysiepen, more famously known as Ulay. They both ended up spending six months with the Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara tribes in the Great Victorian Desert. She wrote: “Aborigines are not just the oldest

Accelerate program's indigenous leadership six announced  - The Australia Council and British Council have collaborated on the program, which provides placements and mentoring sessions to aid the ...

It's time rock art was better protected  - I have heard similar things from Aboriginal people in many parts of Australia over the past 35 years and have also witnessed Indigenous Australians  ...

Fighting poverty ' key to global health  -  Poverty is growing in Australia with an estimated 2.5 million people or 13.9 per cent of all people living below the internationally accepted poverty line, ...

New Zealand's population boom  - This record population growth was driven largely by net migration – New Zealand gained nearly 70,000 people through accepting more immigrants than it lost in emigration. This is a record number, and a large turnaround in a short number of years – in fact in 2012 there was a net loss of people from migration from New Zealand. In the past decade the annual net migration to New Zealand has only been just under 22,000 per year. But since 2013 the net migration figure has grown exponentially, largely due to New Zealanders returning from

Maori and Pacific Island Children to Benefit from Newly Funded Vaccine  -  Maori and Pacific Island children will benefit significantly from the change in formulation of a funded vaccine designed to prevent the most common ...

Urban Maori rankle at under-representation  - The National Urban Maori Authority says Maori from iwi outside of Tamaki Makaurau are under-represented on Auckland's Independent Maori  ...

Maori still twice jobless rate  - The unemployment rate has dropped to 5.1 per cent after a change to the way the figure is calculated. Maori unemployment fell to 11 per cent, down ...

Mash up to inspire young techies  - The organiser of the country's largest coding mash up for tamariki says it's important to get more young Maori interested in studying technology.

A Chance for Anonymous People to Come out of the ...  - The Prime Minister, Hon. Peter O’Neill  has welcomed the passing of Papua New Guinea’s Cybercrime legislation that he said will protect the rights of people around the nation and strengthen public debate in the nation. PM O’Neill said he is hearing positive comments suggesting that since the passing of the legislation there has been a shift in attitudes for a number of people on

Papuan tribe preserves ancient rite of mummification  - The tiny, blackened, shrunken figure he carries was Agat Mamete Mabel, the chieftain that ruled over this remote village in Indonesian Papua some 250 years ago.

Australia, Papua New Guinea Agree To Close Refugee Detention Camp  - Some of these people have been in these camps for three, four, five years, ... The agreement with Papua New Guinea to shut down this facility only ...