Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Mental health rates worse in rural and regional Australia - The most common reason was drug and alcohol use with more than 38,000 overnight hospitalisations, followed by schizophrenia and delusional disorders at 36,000, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report on Thursday .

800-year- old skeleton found in Australia suggests these tools were once used as weapons - The ancient victim found at a burial site in New South Wales died in the 1200s, roughly 600 years before the Europeans began to colonize Australia , ...

More blah or chances of progress for Australia's indigenous peoples? - The Australian indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, has had an all-day meeting with indigenous leaders who demand urgent policy changes to ...

Justice reinvestment offers chance to cut number of indigenous inmates -  Indigenous Australians represent 2.5 per cent of the population and 27 per cent of prisoners. About half of those behind bars are there for nonviolent ...

The welfare system is destroying us - Entrenched welfare dependence is entrenched poverty , whether recipients abuse the system or not. ... Australia has shortages in many trades.

South Australia introduces bill to recognise same-sex marriages - David Bulmer-Rizzi, a charity worker from Sunderland, was killed in a fall while on honeymoon in Adelaide in January. His husband, Marco Bulmer-Rizzi, was initially told David’s death certificate would read “never married” and he was not recognised as the next of kin.

Anthony Callea says plebiscite on gay marriage is 'insulting' after he tied the knot with his long-term ... - And Antony Callea has labelled Australia's proposed plebiscite on gay ... plebiscite is totally insulting,' the former Australian Idol star told TheFIX.

Australian newspaper cartoon depicts LGBT people as Nazis ahead of equal marriage vote - An Australian newspaper has come under fire after publishing a cartoon depicting LGBT people as Nazi soldiers ahead of a planned public vote on ...

Cultural incompatibility hindering public policy in remote Western Australia , indigenous leaders say - The Ngaanyatjarra Lands is made up of 12 Aboriginal communities, still happily living, speaking the languages and practicing the ancient culture on ...

The genetic history of Aboriginal Australians and Papuans - The first major genomic study of Aboriginal Australians has provided several new pieces in the puzzle of how modern humans spread across the world ...

Aboriginal servicemen and women honoured at War Memorial - A new exhibition dedicated to Indigenous servicemen and women has been unveiled at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. The show, the first ...

NRL players urged to stand against racism by kneeling during Australian anthem -  Aboriginal rugby league players have been urged to take a stand against racism during the NRL grand final by kneeling throughout the Australian  ...

Disease rate higher for indigenous people -  Indigenous people are 2.3 times more likely to have a disease than other Australians , and six times more likely to have diabetes, a report has found.

Aboriginal DNA points to an earlier human exodus from Africa - The genetic diversity among Aboriginal Australians is amazing," lead ... The study that focused on DNA from Aboriginal Australians concluded that all ...

Aboriginal Australians Are Humanity's Oldest Civilization - Neither team rules out the possibility of multiple Out-of-Africa migrations, but said these would have made very little, if any, contribution to the gene ...

World-first genome study reveals rich history of Aboriginal Australians - The most comprehensive genomic study of Indigenous Australians to date has revealed modern humans are all descendants of a single wave of ...

They are now going back to an apartheid type system' - Winston Peters fires up over Maori ... - Winston Peters opposes clauses in the settlements that would put Maori representatives onto Taranaki Regional Council planning and regulatory ...

Mums who smoke need more help - The Auckland University study also showed that mothers-to-be who were young, were Maori and were socially-deprived were more likely to smoke.

Which is New Zealand's whitest region? - While the Maori population in parts of the South Island is especially low - as little as 5.76 per cent in Queenstown Lakes District - there are three parts ...

Native Australian DNA reveals ancient interbreeding -  It indicates that Australian aboriginal and Papuan people both originated from the same out-of Africa migration event some 72,000 years ago, along ...

Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50000 years ago - One study argues that an earlier wave of modern humans contributed traces to the genomes of living people from Papua New Guinea. And perhaps ...

Māori and Pacific Early Career Academic Programme - Following a successful pilot programme in 2015, the 2017 Early Career Academic Programme will enable up to six Māori and/or Pacific scholars to ...

Iwi critical for Te Tai Poutini growth -  Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell says Maori land incorporations, runanga and iwi are involved in social and regional development ...

Māori Party housing plan complete failure -  The Māori Party's housing plan to put more Māori into more homes has been a complete failure with fewer than five loans granted per year, says ...