Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

LGBT activists rejoice after Australia scraps plan for nationwide marriage vote - Gay rights advocates on Tuesday welcomed Australia's Senate voting down a government plan to hold a nonbinding ...

Why We Need To Address Perceptions Around Perinatal Anxiety And Depression - PANDA hopes to address the confusions and perceptions surrounding a face of Australia's mental health conversation that is often left untouched.

Gay, Arab and Israeli: Living in a minority within a minority - One example is Israel's Arab community. Many LGBT Arabs in Israel are out and proud and take an active part in the gay community, but there also ...

National parks, symbol of Australian pride -  Australia's history is one of interaction between its immigrant peoples and wilderness, where losing the "grand old continent's natural condition" is a ...

4 Rising Stars of Australian Education - A blend of diverse backgrounds is at the very core of Australian cultural history, with the combined Indigenous populations, British colonialism, and ...

It took courage': beauty queen denies racism claims -  Former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris has been forced to defend ... "It is not your decision when and how Indigenous people forgive," another ...

Agribusinesses generate more than $28M for Indigenous Land Corporation - The ILC's National Indigenous Pastoral Enterprises (NIPE) runs a portfolio of 14 agribusinesses stretching from the Kimberley in Western Australia to ...

Why aren't Aussies embracing bush tucker? -  Australia's indigenous ingredients were not just a part of the Aboriginal diet, native food also played a part in the survival of the first settlers when they ...

Same-sex adoption not 'good thing' for kids - But a spokeswoman for South Australian foster carers says his comments ... vote on whether to allow same-sex couples or singles to adopt children .

Nuclear dump referendum sought by South Australia's Premier - Mr Weatherill said the state needed to grapple with the "fundamental issue" of distrust between Indigenous and non- Indigenous South Australians .

HIV at all time high in Aboriginal population - The rate of HIV notification among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is now more than double the rate in non- Indigenous Australians , and ...

Australian food is not Aussie enough -  Australia's indigenous ingredients were not just a part of the Aboriginal diet, native food also played a part in the survival of the first settlers when they ...

Half-lives – half the population lives less than 50 years of age – the nation should know - But in 2014, half of Western Australia's Aboriginal male deaths were aged less than 50 years. There is a sell that the life expectancy gap for those born ...

It took courage': beauty queen denies racism claims - David Oldfield, Natalie Imbruglia, Renae Ayris, Nicki Wendt, Tom Ballard and Ian 'Dicko' Dickson venture into the heart of Aboriginal Australia . Photo: ...

Annual survey reveals significant gains in HIV treatment over the past decade - The proportion of HIV-positive gay men on antiretroviral treatment (ART) ... The ARTB was released alongside The Kirby Institute's Australia Annual ...

World exposes our lack of young talent - It is, however, hard not to look at what the world has got and Australian ... over Australia midyear was built on the magnificent 176 by 21-year- old Kusal ...

Marti Friedlander remembered for her works with Māori - Friedlander photographed 29 black and white photographs of Māori kuia who were the last generation to receive the unbroken tradition of moko ...

Love changes lives - We revisited a special Native Affairs story about Patricia Walsh who grew up in a home without love. Instead, it was filled with violence and abuse that ...

Te Reo in decline among Auckland-based Māori - Statistics show that Auckland has the largest Māori population in the world, one in four Māori in Aotearoa lives in Auckland, and 50% of Māori in ...

Maori broadcast funding may need to change - The new head of Te Mangai Paho believes the Maori broadcast funding agency may need to follow changes at its mainstream counterpart and fund ...

Science as great untangler of knotty problems besetting us - We still don't understand, for instance, why we have got any smokers at all and, particularly why Maori women are so vulnerable…we don't ...

New Zealand is a country that works” - A key to New Zealand's development has been recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi under which Maori agreed to share their land with those who ...

Maori broadcast funding may need to change - The new head of Te Mangai Paho believes the Maori broadcast funding agency may need to follow changes at its mainstream counterpart and fund ...

Papua New Guinea Hides Some of the Most Dangerous Volcanoes on Earth - However, the government and people of Papua New Guinea have learned from the earlier eruptions in the 1930s-40s that killed over 500 people .