Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Yes, What You Eat Affects Your Mental Health - We all know by now that the quality of our diet has a huge effect on our physical health . But Australia's obesity epidemic and physical health decline ...

Teens should be educated about safer sexting not just abstinence, report says - The paper, written by Yfoundations youth health sector support officer Jessie Hunt, is a first in Australian public health policy. It says resources aimed ...

Study confirms intimate partner violence leading health risk factor for women - The analysis, undertaken by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, provides estimates of the impact of intimate partner violence on women's ...

The dark reality of male suicide - AS the sun rose over Bondi Beach this morning, 191 pairs of shoes lay on to sand to symbolise the Australian men who died by suicide this past month ...

What's bad for Australia is good for New Zealand? - Younger migrants (17-29 years old ) tend to have a positive but more muted ... (The amount earned in Australian dollars has held steady thanks to a ...

Australia's long, proud tradition of ignoring the Refugee Convention we created - It's often noted that Australia once stood tall in the field of human rights. ... Throughout Australia , Aboriginal children were by law being actively ...

Legal bodies welcome Indigenous incarceration inquiry - Three legal organisations have voiced their support for the federal government's decision to ask the Australian Law Reform Commission to launch an ...

City of Sydney continues support for AME - Our local government area is home to one of Australia's largest populations of LGBTIQ community members and same-sex couples. Supporting ...

Meth use among Aboriginal people skyrockets as illicit drugs flood remote and regional communities - Police and counsellors in Western Australia have said the use of illicit drugs across Australia is rife, reported the ABC. Flinders University research ...

A lack of Indigenous voices is turning blackfellas off old media - Once upon a time, Murdoch's Australian was seen as the news outlet most dedicated to reporting Aboriginal affairs. That view may still be held by ...

4.6 million to support Indigenous researchers - Investigating culturally-appropriate social technologies to improve connectedness and wellbeing among Indigenous Australians , examining the ...

The breakup of Australia - From Keith Windschuttle's new book comes this warning that the demands of the Aboriginal industry are insatiable, and after the massive cash comes ...

Why are we here? Pity the PM who follows Tony Abbott on Indigenous affairs - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion receive gifts after a visit to the Yalata Anangu School in South Australia  ...

Should banks play a role in teaching kids about how to manage money effectively? -  Australian schoolchildren are being taught financial literacy through ... And the National Australia Bank (NAB) recently released research claiming to ...

Study confirms intimate partner violence leading health risk factor for women - For women of reproductive age and Indigenous women, intimate partner ... Data from the Personal Safety Survey, Australia's most reliable violence ...

Legal bodies welcome Indigenous incarceration inquiry - Mr Brandis noted that when the report was published in 1991 Indigenous Australians represented 14 per cent of Australia's prison population.

International probe nets 300 New Zealanders in Internet drugs trade -  New Zealand law enforcement agencies have identified almost 300 people who bought illegal drugs online after an international operation to combat ...

New Zealand's Native People Are Showing Their Support For Standing Rock In A Powerful Way - Many Māori , the native people of New Zealand , have taken to social media to stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which is protesting ...

Australia to ban 'boat people ' for life - Canberra currently sends all boat people to offshore processing camps on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus.

Evidence of Unknown Extinct Human Relative Found in DNA Study of Melanesians - But 2.74 percent of the DNA in people in Papua New Guinea comes from Neanderthals. And Bohlender estimates the amount of Denisovan DNA in ...

Jakarta asks Australia to lean on Pacific states over Papua - year we saw major demonstrations in a number of towns in West Papua , which had people arrested and so on, because they were demonstrating in ...

Disney's Moana Shows How Casting with Authenticity Can Reel in Your Audience - While there is much to celebrate about Disney’s 56th animated feature film, including the first appearance of a South Pacific Princess, it is the powerful storytelling through a distinctly ‘authentic’ cast, which deserves recognition.

Mental health inaction will fuel prison harm - “ Māori are much more likely to commit suicide than non- Māori , and with Māori overrepresented in the inmate population, the need to address mental ...

New Zealand's Native People Are Showing Their Support For Standing Rock In A Powerful Way - Many Māori , the native people of New Zealand, have taken to social media to stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which is protesting ...