Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

After Australia cut drug copays for indigenous people, hospital use declined - A new study finds that in regions where indigenous Australians most readily accepted a government incentive ...

When Psychiatric Medications Cause Psychiatric Symptoms - Youth suicide , she reports, began to rise in the 1980s in Australia as stimulant medication began to be prescribed, and this trend continued as ...

Unlike most Australians , I'm finding it hard to care about the US election - Yet similar battles have been raging in Australia on Aboriginal lands for a long time now and it barely generates a whisper. How many people, for ...

Indigenous -led technology hub to open in regional Australia - Because the majority of Australia's population clings to its coastal cities, people in regional areas are often left out when it comes to the so-called ...

Who'd believe Australian towns and communities at 600 times the national suicide rate? - The Inuit peoples of Greenland, the Guarani peoples of South America and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples of the Australian  ...

Indigenous kids in care to triple in 20 years - Victoria's Aboriginal children guardian Muriel Bamblett said many Aboriginal and ... Western Australia has the highest rates of over-representation of ...

Indigenous Australians demand return of shield taken by Captain Cook - The descendant of an Indigenous Australian warrior who was the first to confront Captain Cook as he landed on the shores of Australia in 1770 has ...

Analysis Of Ancient Aboriginal Skeleton Indicates Boomerangs Were Once Used As Lethal Weapons - Researchers had long known that Aboriginal Australians once used boomerangs for hunting and digging. Now a new study suggests that the natives ...

Many retired Australians are experiencing housing insecurity and impoverishment - An increasing number of Australians in their retirement years are ... This number of impoverished older people equates to a huge increase in demand ...

Scientists shocked by discovery in Australia - The discovery of a massive creature in an old human settlement in Australia ... humans and these almost mythical beasts, answering an old mystery.

Who'd believe Australian towns and communities at 600 times the national suicide rate? - However when it comes to Australia , surprisingly there are regions with a rate in excess of 6,000 suicides per 100,000 – more than 600 times the ...

Sister of suicide victim launches mental health group -  Suicide is behind more deaths in Australia than any other single cause of death , ... said mental health was a "major public health problem in Australia ".

My Island Home added to Sounds of Australia - CHRISTINE Anu's version of My Island Home is one of the 10 recordings added this year to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia ...

How activists use Aborigines to censor debate - Paul Gazia, a solicitor in the civil and human rights unit of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia , which gets $14.5 million a year in federal ...

How and why we Australians killed Tony Abbott's same-sex marriage equality plebiscite - The result was they gave Australia a new word to debate at dinner parties – plebiscite. Abbott got the idea about a public vote on same-sex marriage ...

Doctors call for scrapping of prosecutions for spreading HIV - Leading Australian HIV researchers have called on Australian governments to consider counselling over prosecution when dealing with people who ...

3 countries that are inviting Americans to move after the election - In the 18 months leading up to November 8, people in Ireland, Canada, and New Zealand have all extended an invitation to Americans to relocate if ...

Can an app a day keep the doctor away? Smartphones for smarter healthcare - In New Zealand, a text-based smoking cessation intervention ran for 15 years and doubled quit rates, and is as effective among Maori as non- Maori  ...

Māori legend to line wall of Waterview Tunnel - Spectacular concrete panels depicting a Māori legend will welcome drivers when they enter the new northbound Waterview Tunnel. The huge ...

Māori MPs urged to vote against abolishing charter schools - We are calling on all Māori members to vote against this legislation. They know in their heart of hearts that acutally kura hourua are deliverying for our ...

Casual youth worker for Maori performing arts - Casual youth worker for Maori performing arts. Summary. We're looking for a motivated youth worker to join our growing service on a casual basis.

Maori Party challenges Maori MPs to listen to their 'conscience' and support charter schools - Andrew Little, Kelvin Davis and Peeni Henare - the Labour leader had to discipline the two Maori electorate MPs after they attended a charter school ...

HIV prevalent in youth age group: Fiji Health Minister - This also shows that a large number of our young people are not monogamous, and do not use condoms regularly. Other than that, experimentation ...

Indonesia's Pacific diplomacy takes on new edge - And earlier this year we saw major demonstrations in a number of towns in West Papua , for which people were arrested and so on, because they were ...