Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Aboriginal Australians Shed Light On Their Slew Of Experiences With Racism And Oppression - Indigenous people across the world have one of the world's highest suicide rates and shortest life expectancies. From Brazil to Greenland to Australia to the United States, indigenous people live shorter lives and are much more likely to die by suicide. In Ontario, Canada, 11 of the 2,000 people-strong Attawapiskat First Nation tried to commit suicide in a single day. 

Test your knowledge of Indigenous Australia - First Contact follows the journey of six well-known Australians as they confront a startling truth about their own experience of being Australian: they have never experienced contact with indigenous Australians. It's a confronting, powerful series that forces us all to reconsider our own perceptions and engagement with Aboriginal people. How well do you know the culture of Indigenous Australia? The team at NITV here at SBS have put together a quiz to assess whether we know as much as we think.

Aussie youth suicide rate highest in 10 years  -  The report said that 41,000 Australian people aged 12 to 17 years have made a suicide attempt in their life and that the suicide rate for women aged ...

Online Technologies Provide Support for Youth Suicide Prevention - OzHelp is the leading not-for-profit in Australia with a focus on suicide prevention and is moving to provide support through web-based programs ...

Noel Pearson at odds with government over Queensland schools - DI, the centrepiece of Pearson's education platform and now used in remote Indigenous schools in the Northern Territory and Western Australia , has ...

How one school turned Indigenous performance on its head in two years -  Australian research shows that attendance matters for achievement. The more a child misses school, the worse things get for academic performance.

I have no regard for your language': lessons learned in final First Contact - The tense scene came near the end of the journey into indigenous Australia for the likes of beauty queen Renae Ayris and former Australian Idol judge ...

Jump in prisoner numbers costs $3.8 billion a year - The IPA's report, “The use of prisons in Australia : reform directions”, says the number of indigenous people in prison has grown by 75 per cent in a ...

Push in schools to fight 'modern' homophobia - Educators are being urged to look out for a new form of “modern homophobia ” — characterised by disinterest, disingenuous support or “sham ...

South Australia apologises for historic gay convictions - South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has apologised to South Australia's LGBTIQ community for past laws that were unjust. Weatherill said ...

How ' gay panic' defence reform was brought about by a straight man's death - On Wednesday the Queensland government tabled a bill to strike down the use of “unwanted homosexual advances” as a cause of provocation by people who commit assault, manslaughter or even murder.

What's he worried that I'm going to see?' - Frankly it ( Aboriginal Australia ) should have died out like the stone age,” Oldfield said early on in the first episode. “Aboriginality is just unnecessary.

How big a problem is ice use among Indigenous Australians ? - There has been particular concern about methamphetamine use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians , but what do the stats say?

Indigenous Australia bears the brunt of the HIV epidemic - Rates of HIV transmission amongst Indigenous Australians continue to rise, with new figures showing the rate of HIV ...

First Contact: when Indigenous Australia becomes entertainment, everyone loses - First Contact exploits the suffering and disadvantage of vulnerable First Nations people to manufacture white Australia “feels”. It's that straightforward.

Where are these hundreds of services in communities? Show me! - For instance, Roebourne in Western Australia's Pilbara is said to have 67 ... Similarly, more than 90 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders ...

Sugar and Obesity Factsheet and links - The burden of obesity in New Zealand falls disproportionately on Maori and Pacific Island populations, socio-economically disadvantaged populations ...

Maori Party reiterates need for land wars history in schools - The MÄ ori Party reiterated its call for the history of the New Zealand Land Wars to be taught in schools, while supporting Treaty settlements for three ...

New Māori Alice In Wonderland book to capture young readers - Roa says a copy will be sent to every Māori Medium Education school in New Zealand for young readers to enjoy. 11-year-old Meg Rolleston and her ...

Polynesian Culture Represented in Disney's "Moana" - Unlike previous Disney princess films, “Moana” borrows mythological characters from the legends of the Maori people of New Zealand to craft a new ...

Behold, Māori politics' great realignment. Or, don't believe the hype - But the social expectations of a Māori MP are different to what other New Zealanders might expect of their constituency MP. When the Kaikōura ...

Maori gap showing up in international ratings - She says New Zealand will never perform well in international rankings if the needs of Maori , Pasifika and children from low income families are not ...

Seeding Excellence And Future Change - New Zealand's Māori Centre of Research Excellence (NPM) is currently seeding a suite of new projects that will deliver ...

The human spirit challenges time and distance - The first dance, an auspicious number, began with a traditional Māori prayer, followed by an invocation to the Hindu Elephant-headed Lord Ganesha.