Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Australia's Health Trackers reveals huge health gaps between Sydney suburbs - The city that sprawls over 12,000 square kilometres is a patchwork of risk profiles and chronic disease death rates, Australia's Health Tracker shows, ...

Ensuring employee wellbeing and addressing the billions lost to employee mental health is hardly ... - Research by Mental Health Australia finds Australian businesses are losing more than $6.5 billion a year by failing to provide treatment and early ...

Globalisation is worth the angst to improve poverty levels - Let's be clear: globalisation has opened up the world and Australia , like the ... in 1981 43 per cent of the world's population lived in absolute poverty .

New book reveals secrets of bush medicine - For tens of thousands of years before colonisation, the Noongar people were much healthier than most Aboriginal Australians are today. A new book ...

White fragility, white fear: the crisis of racial identity in Australia , and beyond - Consider the task force established in Kalgoorlie following the tragic death of Aboriginal teenager Elijah Doughty, who was run down by a 55-year-old ...

Going Tiwi in Adelaide - An intrinsic part of the Aboriginal art and craft industry in Australia , Tiwi Design continues to support traditional and contemporary art practice, working ...

Church calls for constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians - An Aboriginal girl takes part in the Ampilatwatja Walk Off in 2010, when elders and community members walked out of their houses and set up camp in ...

Dixie Link-Gordon: 'Violence is woven into Australia ' - In late 2012 Dixie Link-Gordon was sitting in her office at Mudgin-Gal Aboriginal Corporation in Redfern talking to a colleague who had returned from ...

To me, this is an issue': Troye on same-sex marriage - To me, this is an issue': Troye on same-sex marriage ... headed backstage into the media room to discuss the same-sex marriage debate in Australia .

Major shout-outs for gay youth and marriage equality at the ARIAs - Recipient of two of the night's biggest awards drew attention to the LGBT community, with one highlighting Australia's unequal marriage laws and ...

Sort this out”: Cathy McGowan's marriage message to the government - We've come together with a plea to the government of Australia ,” McGowan said, “Please listen to what most of the people in Australia are saying.

Indigenous workers set for new subs - Shipbuilder DCNS Australia and the Indigenous Defence Consortium have signed an agreement to explore work opportunities in the new submarines ...

Indigenous overrepresented in every category of child or infant death in NT -  Indigenous children and infants die at much higher rates than non- Indigenous infants and children in the Northern Territory

First Australian Terra Madre celebrates nation's diversity in food traditions and production - A special talking circle was dedicated to the “ Indigenous perspectives of linking local food to land and culture”, featuring Australian first nation leader ...

Did First Contact producers deliberately cast David Oldfield as the villain? - Hosted by Ray Martin, First Contact is the journey of six European Australians who are challenged about their perceptions of Indigenous Australians .

NRL star Kyle Turner helping to preserve Indigenous languages - The South Sydney Rabbitohs player helped launch a new Indigenous language book called 'Brush with Kyle', which is one in a series books under ...

Record number of new Māori and Pacific doctors this year - At the University's November graduation, Māori and Pacific medical ... New Zealand's medical workforce was estimated as made up of 3.2 percent ...

White Ribbon riders share anti-violence message -  New Zealand roads are rumbling with White Ribbon riders who may look like a motorbike gang, but they're not. The group come with a message of ...

Observing regions' own 'battle days' part of NZ Wars commemorations - Some people are concerned the significance of the signing will eclipse the events of the New Zealand Wars, which were about the Maori struggle to ...

Maori asset managers juggle social and commercial pressure -  Maori lawyers have heard how managers of Maori collective assets face increasing pressure to address social and community needs. Nick Wells, the ...

A closer look at the Health Survey highlights worrying uptake trends for smoking - Disappointedly Māori smoking remains at 38.6%, Pacific at 25.5%, compared to European at 14.5%. Smoking by Māori men is reported at 37.3% an ...

Researchers to present at Cairns Gambling Studies conference - Our evidence shows that Māori are disproportionately impacted by gambling related harm. Hāpai Te Hauora is a leader in minimisation of gambling ...

A kaupapa Māori approach to ageing well - Professor Brendan Hokowhitu from the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies (FMIS) and Professor John Oetzel from Waikato Management School ...

Want to move to New Zealand post election? We did - Aotearoa (the original Maori word for New Zealand) has its own problems and idiots. We prefer to believe both are fewer and more manageable there.