Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Is It Legal To Refuse A Paternity Test? - When in doubt about who the father of a baby is, just do a paternity tests. ... According to the Australian Law Reform Commission, around 3000 ...

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Australia legalizes medical marijuana cultivation -  Australia has allowed “fit and proper” individuals and entities to cultivate medicinal cannabis crops under strict government license and guidelines in ...

Australia Ignored Multiple Reports Of Girls At Muslim School Being Forced Into ... - An Australian woman claims that she repeatedly told authorities that girls as young as 12 at a Muslim school were being forced into illegal marriages ...

Indonesia no place for mentally ill people: Report - The Asia-Pacific Mental Health Integration Index, released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), ranks the level of effort of 15 countries across the Asia Pacific region in implementing effective mental health policies. Indonesia ranks 14th out of 15 countries in the study. Only Pakistan scored lower.

Yes, What You Eat Affects Your Mental Health - But Australia's obesity epidemic and physical health decline isn't the only thing we need to be worried about. We also need to consider our mental  ...

Thai businesses told to hire more elderly - You've got to be damned tough to do this job," says the 63-year- old , who records bus arrivals and departures, and tots up fares collected from ...

Why former Australian spinner Brad Hogg wanted to commit suicide - In his new autobiography 'The Wrong 'Un', Hogg reveals the details about his battle with depression and how he switched to heavy drinking.

Couple face homophobic backlash after kiss goes viral - Is this another publicity stunt by the gay community? ... “By being openly gay in Australia the risk of homophobic attacks increases, whether ...

Stephen Gay aims to become LGBTIQ candidate for Labor - Stephen Gay , chief of staff to Innovation and Small Business Minister ... of making sure that the Australian Labor Party is representative of everyone in ...

How can Government fund plebiscite and not domestic violence reform? - This week Australian police will deal with about 5000 domestic and family violence matters. That's one every two minutes – or 264,028 per year.

Community and kids key as Malcolm Turnbull becomes less remote - South Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher said the federal government had invited the state to put a project forward for the first time, in a ...

Cry The Beloved Country exposes the racist and corrupt heart of Australia - “I know that Australia is a safe country,” a refugee says in voiceover in ... Pedersen as Indigenous detective Jay Swan, go to the source of Australia's  ...

Pity the PM who follows Tony Abbott on Indigenous affairs - It was hard not to ask the question during Malcolm Turnbull's swing through remote and Indigenous communities in South Australia .

Reinterpreting the funding culture - The state accounts for 30 per cent of the nation's Aboriginal art centres and produces 40 per cent of Australia's Aboriginal art. Yet it receives just 19 per ...

Frontier Wars wing needed - As Remembrance Day draws closer, it is fitting to reflect on the long history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' service in the Australian  ...

Rongoā Māori study to help combat type-2 diabetes - Koia received a Health Research Council of New Zealand Māori health research postdoctoral fellowship worth more than $425,000. She has also ...

Date set for New Zealand land wars commemoration - This day is significant as it also marks the signing of Te Whakaputanga - The Declaration of Independence in 1835. This kaupapa was the subject of a ...

The influence behind the Maori King - A real driver behind the King's speech is that many Maori believe Labour ... But the former New Zealand First MP, leader of the Tekaumarua council ...

Study to examine traditional Maori herbal medicines for anti-diabetic properties - “ Māori herbal medicines have provided relief for many common ailments and chronic conditions over centuries where mātauranga Māori (traditional ...

Turn the tables for Prison expansion - Eighteen hundred new beds will accommodate 900 Māori – on the basis of the 50% incarceration rates of Māori . The recent exposé of UN Committee ...

Nexwlélexm: Learn to love and pronounce Bowen's original name - In 2003 I spent a week in New Zealand working with a Maori economic development organization to host an entreprensureship conference.

Young people recruited to lead new rheumatic fever campaign - To further help raise awareness about the disease we're going to recruit and train around 100 young people, mainly Maori and Pacific aged between ...

Date set to commemorate land wars -  Māori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell has welcomed a date set by iwi to hold a national day to commemorate the New Zealand Land Wars.