Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Cancer pips heart disease to become Australia's biggest killer -  Cancer has become Australia's biggest killer, overtaking heart disease for the first time to take more lives than any other ailment, a government health agency said in a report released on Tuesday.  Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/54306767.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Labor to block same-sex marriage vote - We went to the election and we said we are going to give every Australian a say on this question of whether same-sex couples should be allowed to ...

Same-sex marriage debate, Malcolm Roberts' maiden Senate speech and the omnibus bill - Debate around same-sex marriage dominated the day at Parliament House amid confirmation legislation to enable the plebiscite will be tabled this ...

Half of all Australians suffer from chronic diseases, but 85 per cent believe they're healthy: report - And while there were some improvements in the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians , they continued to have lower life ...

Scary stats reveal just how unhealthy Aussies are - The latest two-yearly report from the Australian Institute of Health and ... Only 39 per cent of indigenous Australians rated their health as 'excellent' or ...

This multicultural Australian painting won't be able to hang in its London buyer's home - Dr Sarah Scott, an art history lecturer at the Australian National University, told SBS that "while the artistic work doesn't have exceptional value, it does ...

Regional gallery trumps the majors - It is home to some of Australia's most innovative Indigenous artists and, yet, the Ken Sister's win was the first time,many people learned of this art ...

Police frustrated with youth crime, family dysfunction in Kalgoorlie: Gordon - Dr Gordon was speaking with other leading WA indigenous figures at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia event in Perth yesterday.

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, ...

Vain social media campaigns won't improve suicide rates – we need to listen - According to some statistics I just made up, 92% of male social media users know at least one man who has made a hashtag of his life and ended up committing a suicide selfie in the past six months alone.

Your parents are ripping you off - That’s the dire outlook from author and Labor policy adviser Jennifer Rayner who predicts the current generation is being robbed of their future financial security by Baby Boomers.

Warning rising income gap between generations will harm Australia's economic future - Good jobs, comfortable wealth and the wellbeing that comes with both are increasingly being concentred in the... arthritic hands of older Australians ,” ...

Indigenous empowerment program Dreamtime Project 'creating role models, not fashion models' - When supermodel Naomi Campbell came to Australia in 2000, she asked why there were so few Aboriginal models on Australia's catwalks.

Triple J WON'T move its iconic Hottest 100 countdown away from Australia Day despite 'Invasion ... - In a public statement released on Tuesday, Wards announced that Triple J will partner with The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) ...

With didgeridoo, Harper marries American blues with Australian aboriginal music -  Australian harmonica/didgeridoo performer Harper and his band, Midwest Kind, perform Saturday at Vegetable Buddies in South Bend.

Aboriginal Woman Goes From 'Non-Citizen' To Australian Parliament - Wearing a cloak decorated with the goanna lizard, the first Aboriginal woman elected to Australia's lower house took her seat in parliament ...

A Shared future for James Cook University and the University of Papua New Guinea - There is a huge untapped potential in Papua New Guinea for research ... people -to- people relationships between Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Doctors say delays in working hour negotiations puts patients at risks - The New Zealand Resident Doctors Association (NZRDA) is urging District Health Boards to address the long hours doctors are required to work ...

Hope grows for compromise on Maori fishing rights in Kermadec ocean sanctuary - We're trying very hard to find a solution that enables New Zealand to fully ... "They made a big announcement to the world then thought about Maori  ...

New Zealand : Anti-TPP protests promote economic protectionism - As in previous rallies, speakers from the Labour Party, the Greens, Mana, New Zealand First, the Maori Party and the trade unions, were silent about ...

It's Transformative": Māori Women Talk About Their Sacred Chin Tattoos - When New Zealand was colonized in the 1800s, the ancient Māori practice of moko kauae—or sacred female facial tattooing—began to fade away.

 Supporting youth voices - She was four when she arrived in New Zealand and has grown up with a strong commitment to New Zealand's history, believing that non- Maori  ...

New Zealand education accused of subtle racism and told it needs to 'brown up' -  New Zealand education accused of subtle racism and told it needs to 'brown .... The clips centre around a Maori boy, Xavier, and features instances of ...

Accusations of racism in health funding - However, the Ministry of Health said in a written statement that Māori ... Dr Stephen Child, chairman of the New Zealand Medical Association, said if ...