Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

WA has lowest vaccination rate in Australia , Fremantle singled out - WA has lowest vaccination rate in Australia , Fremantle singled out ... “Because indigenous rates of immunisation are lifting, we expect WA to catch up.

Bill Leak cartoon complaint made after pub gripe - So the 49-year-old called on Western Australia's taxpayer-funded Aboriginal Legal Service to help sort it out. The problem with the pub remains ...

Mapoon defying remote Indigenous crime rate trends - The recent tragedy at Kowanyama makes us all too aware of the complex cultural dynamics operating in our remote Indigenous communities. We also ...

WA Department of Environment blocks expansion plans for award-winning Indigenous irrigation ... - The flagship project for Western Australia's Water for Food program is being denied the opportunity to expand by the Department of Environment ...

Cartoons are risky business  - Almost 20 years ago, I created a cartoon about a group of WA Aboriginal people who went to England to retrieve the head of Noongar warrior Yagan.

Australian state allows same-sex couples to adopt -  Australia's Queensland state on Thursday passed a bill allowing same- sex couples to legally adopt children. Minister for Communities ...

The Beauty of Islam Brought Me Out of the Closet - It also kept me plugging away in "ex- gay " conversion therapy from sixth grade through most of high school. It was the summer between my junior and ...

These Two Gay Couples Are Why John Howard Changed The Marriage Act - Fast forward 13 years to the Nichols-Tomlins household in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia . Tomlins is sitting on a couch in their sunny living ...

Step in the right direction to cut road toll among older pedestrians - Wazila Khan, 63, has low vision. She walks to Union Road every day, which is the first street in Australia to be redesigned according to a new "toolkit".

No Benefit for Screening All Older Men for Abdominal Aneurysms - Secondary analysis from the randomized Western Australian Trial of ... of older men identified from an electoral role in Australia , according to Kieran ...

Battling homelessness and poverty - There are 105,000 homeless people in Australia . In NSW and Victoria there has been a 20% increase in the rate of homelessness in the past decade.

Straight LGBT Allies Call For Plebiscite To Be Axed - Just Equal spokesman Ivan Hinton-Teoh told Guardian Australia : “It's great to see so many straight allies of LGBTI people getting behind the campaign ...

White lawyers' behind complaint - A complaint on behalf of Mr Gunn and Mr Till was lodged by the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia , triggering another taxpayer-funded ...

The Slow Death Of Critical Thinking In Australia - Bugger The Journalism: The Slow Death Of Critical Thinking In Australia ... Where Aboriginal people are mentioned, it tends to be in the context of ...

Why Isn't Blackface Taboo for Australians ? -  Indigenous Australians make up some 3 percent of Australia's population and have not known real political power since white settlement violently ...

Liberals upset at ALS role in cartoon case - Liberal MPs have questioned the activism of the WA Aboriginal Legal ... a cartoon depicting Aboriginal parental neglect in The Australian newspaper.

Boost for regions promised by NZ First - "New Zealand First has presented proposals for Youth Employment, ... "We understand New Zealanders should go to bed knowing their homes, ...

We can enjoy the diversity'- Wellington's Sikh community open new temple - The new temple in Naenae is going to cater for a growing population, the number of people affiliating with Sikh in New Zealand has more than ...

Andrew Little announces new policy to cut youth unemployment. - Andrew Little announces new policy to cut youth unemployment. ... "Right now we have 74,000 young people in New Zealand who aren't just out of ...

Maori make a stand in a bid to help American indigenous people -  Maori make a stand in a bid to help American indigenous people ... The demonstration came as more than 20 of New Zealand's biggest names in ...

Racial justice meets the child welfare system: why Hands Off Our Tamariki is a movement for change - Kim McBreen explains why that's terrible news for our most vulnerable Māori children. You may have heard the Crown have had a series of bad ...

Who's the wealthiest of them all? - European New Zealanders are financially better off than their Māori , Asian and Pacific counterparts across most age groups, according to Statistics ...

Half a million dollar research into Maori medicine for diabetes - A Huntly woman will research plants used for traditional Maori medicine in a mission to treat type-2 diabetes. Jonni Koia, a plant and food biologist, ...

Maori Translation of Quran on Display in Gisborne, New Zealand - The translation was completed three years ago by a Muslim follower who learned Maori over 20 years. Mustanser Qamar, one of the organizers, said ...