Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Sydney's nasty secret - I lived in Potts Point (Sydney) and I walked to the ATM and it was over a holiday break and there were people talking about a guy who had met someone on Grindr in their apartment building and that he’d been stabbed 26 times and the apartment had been set on fire,” Dale says.

Experience triumphs over youth - In addition, older workers are also seen as providing limited return on ... There are some suburbs in Australia where the old blue-collar jobs that once ...

Smoking rates among high school students drop as habit falls out of favour - The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has reported on progress ... of the population by 2018, as benchmarked by the national tobacco strategy.

Far North indigenous art a favourite overseas - He called on local indigenous artists to submit their design ideas for the brand which would position Tropical North Queensland as Australia's best ...

Interest rates lowered to assist Indigenous first home buyers -  Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) has lowered its home loan interest rates to further assist eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples into ...

Will my baby daughter become another object of fear for White Australia ? -  Indigenous Australians , Afghan cameleers, the yellow peril, non-Whites, Southern Europeans, Asians, brown boat people, Muslims... The heroes and ...

Lifeline concerned of rise in suicide -  Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows there were 3027 suicides nationally in 2015, an increase of 163 on 2014, which was almost 300 higher than ...

Mental illness propels figures - Among the concerning statistics released on Wednesday were figures revealing that for the first time more than 3000 Australians died from suicide in a ...

Australian researchers are a step closer to a peanut allergy vaccine -  About 3 per cent of babies have a peanut allergy that mostly persists throughout their life, and of all food allergies, a peanut allergy is the most likely to cause a severe anaphylactic reaction. But researchers from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute say they might have found a treatment which could be available within five years.

Our region has the highest rate of self-harm in Australia - The most recent Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Healthy ... Mr O'Brien said improving the state of mental health in the region was an issue ...

Moral challenge we need to face - SANE chief executive Jack Heath said Australia had made real advances in reducing stigma around mild to moderate mental health conditions but ...

Rare Indigenous 'library of rock art' under threat by gold mine, traditional owners say -  Indigenous traditional owners from Queensland's Cape York are warning a proposed gold mine would potentially damage one of the world's oldest ...

Exhibition explodes Australia's atomic past - Quilty said Australia's decision to allow the British testing on traditional Indigenous lands is one of the darkest part of Australia history, and that we still ...

Study shows Indigenous people lose 2.3 healthy years - A new report has found Indigenous Australians face a substantially higher burden of disease than their non- Indigenous  ...

Partnership Opportunity to Remove 'Energy Poverty' from Aboriginal Social Housing Communities - The NSW Aboriginal Housing Office and social enterprise Fourth&Centre are ... systems and an Australian -developed smart energy management system. ... Aboriginal social housing tenants living in Dubbo have told us that they ...

Lockout laws do reduce violence -  review of 21 studies, including seven from Australia , that examined the impact trading hours at licensed premises have on alcohol-related violence .

Accusations of racism seek to bury message -  The Maori Issues correspondent for Radio New Zealand, Mihi Forbes, directly approached as many members of the Hobson's Pledge Trust as could ...

Gisborne, where all people are equal - Since 1969, however, our insights into New Zealand history have changed. The feats of the voyaging ancestors of Maori who invented blue water ...

Maori not accessing mainstream health services: Ngai Tahu -  Maori not accessing mainstream health services: Ngai Tahu ... district had overall better health outcomes than in many other parts of New Zealand .

New Plymouth mayor Andrew Judd looks back on his three years as a 'recovering racist' - His stance on Maori representation has been moving for many people, including Whero Bailey, right, who welcomed Judd onto Parihaka at the end of ...

As activist receives global award for fighting deforestation, Global Witness calls for urgent halt to ... -  Papua New Guinea's rainforests are being torn down at an alarming rate, and the people whose lives depend on them are facing intimidation and ...

New Zealand vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows gets TV spin-off - A spin off of the critically acclaimed New Zealand vampire mockumentary, What We Do In The Shadow, and Māori sketch comedy, Only In Aotearoa, ...

New Zealand offers to support Sri Lanka to develop many sectors -  New Zealand offers to support Sri Lanka to develop many sectors ... Oct 01, Auckland: New Zealand has assured Sri Lanka of its assistance for the ... of the indigenous race of New Zealand - the Maori's , and capturing the Sri Lankan ...

More Maori died at this site than any other during wars' - calls for Waikato Land Wars to have as ... - More Maori died at this site than any other during wars' - calls for Waikato ... For many New Zealanders , the Waikato Wars are a side note in history.