Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

The unsolved gay hate crimes of recent Australian history - When homosexuality was still illegal in Australia , a series of disturbing gang assaults were taking place around the country. The victims had a couple ...

Bachelorette's Georgia Love slams the country for failing to recognise same-sex unions - The 27-year-old did not hold back when discussing her thoughts on the slow progress of the legalisation of gay marriage in Australia : 'I think it's ...

Just Suicide Prevention advocate Catherine McAlpine horrified by ABS suicide statistics - Her comments follow an Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report last week that revealed 3027 Australians died by suicide in 2015 – a 5.4 per cent ...

What You Need To Know About The 'Harm' In The Plebiscite Debate - Statistics show LGBTI Australians have the highest rates of suicide in the country, while they're twice as likely to experience anxiety and three times ...

Action urged to protect children - Leading Indigenous and human rights groups want the federal and ... of youth detention in Australia and that having independent oversight of youth ...

Football player dragged for 'racist' depiction of Aboriginal Australians - The offending photo depicts Natoli dressed in a twisted version of traditional Aboriginal Australian garb and holding a petrol can — a reference to the ...

Australians call for more Aussie emojis on their keyboards with Aboriginal Flag topping list - The Aboriginal Flag was followed closely by an emoji for 'meat sweats', 'hangry' and even former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in a pair of red ...

Opening of the exhibition Mapping Australia in the Aboriginal Art Museum - Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima attend the opening of the exhibition Mapping Australia in the Aboriginal Art Museum ...

Apartment rent in Sydney and Melbourne beyond reach of many women - A similar analysis by Guardian Australia of rental affordability in Sydney ... Housing poverty occurs when people who fall in the bottom 40% of wage ...

Mental health experts back Labor's same-sex marriage plebiscite veto - Labor has buttressed its opposition to a same-sex marriage plebiscite based on the advice of Australia's pre-eminent mental health experts, including ...

Our region has the highest rate of self-harm in Australia - The most recent Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Healthy Communities Report has highlighted the Central Queensland, Wide Bay, ...

Home-made mental health film becomes a web hit - The painter and decorator has received loads of messages of support about her film, which has now been watched as far away as Australia . Leanne ...

Action urged to protect children - Leading Indigenous and human rights groups want the federal and ... of youth detention in Australia and that having independent oversight of youth ...

Indigenous trail a historic first for state forests - As today's forest managers, we work closely with local Aboriginal land ... Earlier this year, Conservation Volunteers Australia members Shane Hoskin, ...

Mundine demands domestic violence inquiry -  " Aboriginal mothers in Western Australia are 17-and-a-half times more likely to be murdered. Indigenous women are 34 times more likely to be ...

Marriage Alliance uses mobile app in same-sex debate - Marriage Alliance spokeswoman Sophie York told The Australian the technology was the same as that taken-up by the successful “Leave” campaign ...

Welfare card 'could replace cash' for jobless teens - The proposal is based on the New Zealand Youth Services card for people on youth parenting or unemployment benefits, and is similar to the ...

New research on ancient Pacific skeletons reveals Maori ancestors - New research on ancient Pacific skeletons reveals Maori ancestors ... Cox received a grant of about $1m from the Royal Society of New Zealand .

Newshub reporter wins first Māori journalism award - The first ever Māori journalism award has been won by Newshub reporter ... Māori and Pasifika Dr Selwyn Katene said the new categories were a ...

Te Māngai Pāho announces new boss - Combined with a passion for te reo Māori and his significant experience in ... After completing his law degree, Mr. Parr spent 25 years in independent film and television production, having been involved in some of New Zealand's  ...

Stop throwing people in jail, it doesn't work -  Maori just have it worse. The highest race of incarceration in prisons is Maori . Over half of the population are indigenous New Zealanders .

Calls for more research on Fiji to be in mother tongue - The Pasifika language weeks in New Zealand are important for breaking down societal intolerance of Pasifika and Maori language as well as other ...

Larry Parr named head of Te Mangai Paho - He said he was honoured and excited by the appointment because of the timing of achieving the position with Te Mātātwai, the new Māori language ...

New Zealand mother foraged in the bush in a bid to cure her daughters eczema creates balm she ... - advice of her father, Mrs Wilson took to the bush in search of kawakawa, a native plant long used as a soothing substance by New Zealand Maori .