Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Give every child the best start -  Australia's Indigenous population, and disadvantaged people, more .... Australia uses taxes and transfers to reduce inequality and child poverty to a ...

Nope, Married At First Sight's Gay Couple Did Not Set Marriage Equality Back - Yesterday, Huffington Post Australia ran an editorial that literally accused them of setting back the marriage equality cause. It was called Why The Gay  ...

Schools in Victoria to celebrate first LGBTI History Month - The initiative was announced and will be led by the Safe Schools Coalition Victoria (SSCV), Minus18, and the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives ...

Youth homelessness: a personal story - Young people from refugee backgrounds are six times more likely to become homeless, which explains why, as a refugee woman under the age of 25, I was destined to be homeless. We live in a society that blames homeless people for their situation. It is as if people choose to live in situations where they have no control over their lives, where they are completely alienated from society and blamed for their dire situation. 

New trade deals vital for Australia's future - has increased economic growth, jobs or reduced poverty without opening up to international trade. Australia has enjoyed 25 years of uninterrupted ...

Chansey Paech is Australia's first gay, Indigenous parliamentarian - Chansey Paech spent the last several few weeks driving his silver Nissan four-wheel-drive around central Australia , meeting with small communities ...

Countering the claims about Australia's Aboriginal number systems - Norris claimed that our paper was about the largest numbers in Australian Aboriginal languages that could extend beyond ten, but still didn't extend ...

Poverty a barrier to good parenting - Political empowerment means having a voice. Australia's indigenous population, and disadvantaged people more generally, are disempowered in all ...

The suicide rate in Australia is a humanitarian crisis that we can no longer ignore  - Suicide takes twice as many Australian lives as all other forms of violence ... A national inquiry or royal commission into Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Fogarty aims to inspire Aboriginal talent - For followers of the indoor game in Australia the sight of Fogarty proudly waving the Aboriginal flag upon the conclusion of another victory has become ...

Sir Michael Marmot urges Australia to invest in early childhood to close Indigenous ... - If Australia wants to close the gap between the health of Indigenous and non- Indigenous Australians , the traditional approach of treating disease will ...

The women taking on Australia's global suicide capital - A 2016 audit of data from 2005 to 2014 found the Indigenous suicide rate in the Kimberley to be more than seven times Australia's average in 2011, ...

Turnbull pledged to fund both sides of plebiscite debate, Archbishop says -  Same-sex marriage: Turnbull pledged to fund both sides of plebiscite ... for opposing sides in the same sex marriage plebiscite, one of Australia's most ...

Aussie bishops get ahead of the curve on the 'Grayby Boom' - Generally in Australia , there's a growing awareness of the challenges older people face economically these days. We see a growing trend, that's ...

Christians must not be 'harsh or vilifying' in LGBT debate says Australian Archbishop - The Church "understands the desire of two people to express their commitment of love and self-sacrifice", and must accept the result should Australia  ...

Countering the claims about Australia's Aboriginal number systems - Norris claimed that our paper was about the largest numbers in Australian Aboriginal languages that could extend beyond ten, but still didn't extend ...

More Maori in future workforce - When the composition of the Maori population by age group compared with all New Zealanders was considered, the differences were clear, he said.

Preserving biodiversity for a prosperous Papua - The governor believed that preserving environment is crucial for the prosperity of Papua's indigenous people to help pull them out of backwardness ...

Older peoples' unmet needs result in lower quality of life - Research that examined socioeconomic and cultural profiles and correlates of quality of life in non- Māori New Zealanders of advanced age, found that ...

Efforts to Bring Maori Youth Road Toll Down Welcomed - New Zealand Firsts recent announcement on road safety and an investment in youth road safety education in particular is welcomed by Road Safety ...

Tribe footing the bill for Maori Party? - Waikato-Tainui deserve committed representation, yet the President of the Maori Party is muddying the waters by confusing the core business of the ...

Funding for rangatahi suicide initiatives - Te Puni Kokiri is to share almost $2 million among 28 organisations nationwide to run rangatahi suicide prevention initiatives. Maori Development ...

Can lands and rivers be people? In New Zealand they can - The Te Urewera Act came into effect to resolve a dispute over who owned the land: the government or the local indigenous tribe, the Maori . There was ...

More than 90pc of prisoners have suffered mental health or substance use issues - Most NZ prisoners have suffered from mental health issues, now the ... have a lifetime diagnosis of a mental health or substance use disorder.