Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Long-running study of 58000 Australian women expands to research their children  - The biggest study into the health of Australian women has clocked up 20 years — and is set to expand to research their children's well-being.

Children missing identity lash out  - However, of the 376 children who left out-of-home care in South Australia in 2014-15, 53 had been in six to 10 different placement houses and 50 had ...

Too many doctors juggling public and private hospital work, researcher says  - Professor Gary Freed, an American paediatrician who has been studying Australia's health system for five years at the University of Melbourne, ...

South Australia's age tsunami could reap widespread economic and social benefits - Some 27 per cent of the Japanese population is aged 65 and over. Buzzing, smart, rich, energetic Japan is a far older community than South Australia .

First Aboriginal curator appointed to South Australian Museum, with benefactor's support  - The South Australian Museum hopes more stories of Indigenous history and culture will be uncovered, following the appointment of its first Aboriginal  ...

Fireworks versus truth, reconciliation and justice  - Frankly, it is stubborn racism to keep insisting that non- Indigenous Australians should decide whether or not Indigenous people should have a ...

Bringing these words to life is an extension of our identity  - Before colonisation the island had at least nine native languages . ... For many Indigenous Australians whose languages declined under colonial rule ...

Aborigines were building 'stone houses' 9000 years ago  - Archeologists have discovered the earliest “houses” in Australia — circular stone structures on an island near Karratha that offer clues about how ...

Push for Tasmanian communities to keep their local stories alive through the arts  - behind, I think that that paints a picture for not just our Aboriginal communities and emerging writers but also mainstream Australia ," Mr Everett said.

Hurtful cartoon fails to help indigenous victims of injustice  - Personally, as an Aboriginal father, the cartoon offended me. ... have 100 community-controlled member organisations, located right across Australia , ...

Abbott follows his 'lifestyle choice' to remote communities  - The “healthy welfare” Visa card scheme is being trialled in Ceduna, in South Australia , and in Kununurra and Wyndham in Western Australia .

Children missing identity lash out  - In South Australia , Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) children are 10.6 times more likely to be removed from their birth family than non-ATSI ...

 First Aboriginal woman goes from 'non-citizen' to Parliament  - Wearing a cloak decorated with the goanna lizard, the first Aboriginal woman elected to Australia's lower house took her seat in parliament this week, ...

Is this reality TV show making light of marriage?  - What a bloody insult to those of us in committed long term same sex marriages who are not recognised under Australian law. What a disgusting affront ...

Each suicide shatters 135: research  -  Suicides affect more than 335,000 Australians each year, with the proportion of people suffering moderate to very high levels of distress following a ...

4-Year- Old Approved For Sex Change, Gender Reassignment Operation To Be Conducted In ...  - The child is expected to finish the gender reassignment surgery prior to starting kindergarten next year and will travel to Australia to complete the ...

Technical Innovation and Economic Growth in New Zealand  - In the period covered by this book, 1918 to 1980, New Zealanders , along with people in other Western economies, experienced the fastest increase in ...

NZ shows Turnbull the way forward for welfare reform  - Sweeping welfare reforms introduced by New Zealand's Key government ... But, Ms Tolley said, “we don't have a lot of people floating through our ...

Bradford starts left side think tank  - It will complement work already done in universities, wananga, Maori and other roopu. "What's different about this is it is very geared to a kaupapa that ...

New projects to unlock Māori knowledge innovation potential  - A key aspect of the Challenge is its Vision Mātauranga research theme, which integrates western science and mātauranga Māori (knowledge) to ...

Maori is their baby, their children have left home now and Maori means everything to them. Maori is ...  -  Maori is urgently referred to Fitzpatrick Referrals after losing the use of her legs almost completely. One of the discs in Maori's spine has become ...

If Gods can be gay, why can't we? Maori author Witi Ihimaera  -    Aboriginal, litterateur and rebel, Witi Ihimaera is a moving force in giving voice to the Maoris in New Zealand. The first published novelist in Maori  ...

Communities come together after earthquake  -  Māori Party Co-leaders Te Ururoa Flavell and Marama Fox say they are overwhelmed by the resilience shown by our people after experiencing a 7.1 ...

New Maori TV show hopes to change mindset around hunting  - The softly spoken Waikato man fronts Toa Hunter Gatherer, a new Maori TV outdoors series ... "As hunters in New Zealand we're privileged to do so.