Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Aboriginals and Torres Strait islanders fail to meet dietary norms - Louise Gates, director of health at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, said the latest results showed Aboriginal and Torres Strait adults consumed an ...

Family from remote WA town travel to Canberra for launch of suicide report - In 2014 a federally funded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Suicide ... among Aboriginal people, twice as high as non- Aboriginal people in Australia .

Oxfam Straight Talk summit focus on domestic violence in indigenous communities - Eighty indigenous women from all over Australia visited parliament ... Ms Clarke said indigenous culture had to adapt to give women more options.

Crowdfunding campaign launched to help transgender youth -  Australia is one of the few countries in the world that require complicated applications to the Family Court for a transgender youth to access critical ...

Clive Hamilton on how protest changes Australia - These movements confronted the deepest elements of Australian society.” Young gay people who protested, for example, would have to tell their ...

Australian Anti-Marriage Equality Group Says Trump Win Means Marriage Polls Are Wrong - An Australian anti-marriage equality group says Donald Trump's unexpected victory in the US presidential election shows polling on same-sex  ...

6 Things You Can Do To Support LGBTQ People Right Now - Over the past few years, LGBTQ Americans have seen our rights advance, with the passage of marriage equality, the end of the Defense of Marriage ...

In the Day After the Election, Suicide Prevention Hotlines Received a Higher Number of Calls - We have made so much progress over the past few years, and there's a fear that we're going to backwards and LGBTQ people are going to lose their ...

Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ... - Many people don't know this, but Indigenous Australian children are born with much better eyesight than non- Indigenous children. Yet, at the ...

I have found strength in the resilience of my people" - I have suffered abuse for trying to find out who I really was and what it meant to be Indigenous in Australia for me. While there are a lot of negatives, ...

Clive Hamilton on how protest changes Australia - Six major social movements – the peace movement, women's liberation, LGBTIQ rights, Indigenous rights, social justice and the environmental ...

Warren's Indigenous Football legacy - The Indigenous Football Championships included the Johnny Warren ... Then we can have Indigenous players representing Australia left right and ...

Emotional Pat Dodson calls for action to stop devastating rate of Indigenous suicide -  Aboriginal senator Pat Dodson has fought back tears telling the story of a ... a third of children who take their own lives in Australia are Indigenous .

South Australian Citizens' Jury Rejects International Nuclear Waste Dump Plan - Friends of the Earth Australia said: “The Premier said he will respect the views of Aboriginal Traditional Owners and it is clear that an overwhelming ...

Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools organisation involved in 'high risk ... -  Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools Australia organisation has been involved in "high risk" business practices potentially leaving ...

Report identifies need for change in Indigenous suicide prevention - A new report led by The University of Western Australia calls on the Federal ... Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services should remain the ...

NZ immigration site visits up 2500% after US election - Immigration New Zealand said its website had 56,300 visits in the past day - almost ... "In the same 24-hour period the New Zealand Now website - which ... "So the people who most desperately would need asylum, people whose ...

People with dementia 're-discover the joy' of reading with adapted classics - "It's about helping people re-discover the joy of doing something they once loved, especially those who have been avid readers," she said.

Hey, disaffected Americans, here's a guide to moving to New Zealand - It's OK, you can move to New Zealand - here's how. ... New Zealanders speak the same language and share many cultural similarities so the move ...

Nine more streets added to Poppy Places project - On Armistice Day, nine local streets named after distinguished members of the 28th Māori Battalion will be commemorated, by being added to the ...

Warm PNG welcome brings out the smiles -  Papua New Guinea is a country where traditional values and customs ... If first impressions are the most enduring, then the people of Papua New ...

Charter school vote divides Maori MPs - Labour's Maori MPs are dismissing a challenge by the Maori Party to oppose a bill to abolish charter schools. The bill from Labour's education ...

Māori Party voting record shows true agenda -  The Māori Party's pretence of being an independent voice for Māori is a sham and it's clear their agenda is a neoliberal one that aligns with their ...

Seven changes to NZ Maori - The people here are pretty passionate, and certainly people here know New Zealand and they know these players - they are very respectful people.