Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Taskforce Reveals Failures in Care for Koori Kids - Victoria's child protection system has failed Aboriginal children on both an individual and systemic basis, a landmark investigation of nearly 1,000 ...

Remote indigenous Anangu tribe threaten to 'close down' Uluru if their voices aren't heard - The remote Anangu tribe, who live close to the iconic landmark, told the Northern Territory royal commission into juvenile justice on Thursday their ...

Youths attending mental health services have unmet sexual health needs: Study - VIC, Australia , and colleagues says that adolescence is a period of increased risk for both mental health disorders and high-risk sexual behaviour.

Older Australians exercising more than ever before - Nearly half of all older Australians —those aged 65 and over—participated in exercise activities in 2015, up a further 5 percent compared to three years ...

We've Had A Groundbreaking Year In Politics, But Is It Leading To Actual Change? - I think we can all agree that we've seen some pretty dark days in Australian politics of late. Like a rainbow at the end of a bad storm, however, some ...

Couple face homophobic abuse after image of them kissing goes viral - In many countries homosexuality is still illegal and this could have real and dangerous consequences,” he said. “By being openly gay in Australia the ...

Cyndi Lauper and Blondie to tour Australia together - The singer has been a vocal supporter of the LGBTIQ community, in interviews Lauper has shared that her sister is gay . Among her work helping the ...

We've never been richer, so why hasn't the poverty rate budged? -  Australia has made no progress in the fight against poverty over a decade, in fact, the percentage of Australians living in poverty actually increased ...

WHO Report recommends free hepatitis B vaccinations for Indigenous Australians - But while Indigenous adults are one of the groups most at risk of being infected with hepatitis B, many are not protected. A new Australian report for the ...

Miranda Devine: Foreign-funded green groups could take whole swathes of Australia out of the ... - The Australian taxpayer shovelled at least $88 million into the Clinton ... The Break-up of Australia : The Real Agenda behind Aboriginal Recognition.

Indigenous incarceration: Too little action on national disgrace - Yet even now, staggeringly, one in four people in Australian prisons is Indigenous – a rate that has doubled in the last quarter of a century.

It's a myth that taking in 'relatives' is a cultural norm – the 'shame' is in not saying 'no' - There is a myth that is sold as an immutable cultural norm that Aboriginal ... One in four of Australia's homelessness is of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Lighthouse Project seeks to reduce heart disease among Indigenous Australians - A joint venture by eight hospitals around Australia is working to reduce the high rate of heart disease among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Warren Mundine 'not told' about inquiry into Indigenous prison rates - Brandis had said the Turnbull government would ask the Australian Law Reform Commission to look at the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in ...

The treatment of Aboriginal people is our great collective continuing shame - How dire if Malcolm Turnbull's signature achievement, aside from rescuing a grateful nation from Tony Abbott, was to make it easier for Australians to ...

Black deaths in custody: 'Where's the justice?' - The systemic violence and brutality inflicted by Australian police and corrections officers, on both Indigenous and non- Indigenous peoples is not ok!

One Price Policy for Papua - Since Indonesia's independence, people in Papua have never paid the same price for fuel as those in Java. Gasoline is 14 times more expensive than ...

Top Māori cop to review Tūhoe woman's case - The country's most senior Māori policeman has stepped in to review the ... Ms Tulloch grew up in the Whakatane area, which has a Māori population of ...

Maori language exponents set to shine at national awards -  Maori language exponents set to shine at national awards ... The champions of New Zealand's indigenous language are set to be honoured next ...

New Human DNA Discovered? Geneticists Say Melanesians May Possess Traits Of Extinct ... -  People in Papua New Guinea have similar amounts of Neanderthal DNA, approximately 2.74 percent, but Denisovan DNA appears to account for 1.11 ...

Global Indigenous Centre to be founded at Massey - In New Zealand , you just have to look at universities. There's very few Maori professors, Maori academic leaders, and there's many colleges and ...

Ditching the spatula for a paint brush - Paul Rangiawhia says, “Out of the Darkness began for me after seeing a book of Maori art and it was photographed by a famous New Zealand  ...

Top Māori cop to review Tūhoe woman's case - Ms Tulloch grew up in the Whakatane area, which has a Māori population of 42 percent, compared to the New Zealand average of 14 percent.

Thousands Join Asia's Largest LGBT Pride in Taiwan - Officials from the delegations of the European Union, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, New Zealand , Netherlands and the United Kingdom joined ...