Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Canberrans unhappier, more stressed and less positive about the future than other Australians - The concerns participants had to choose from were coping with stress, school or study problems, body image, depression, family conflict, bullying or emotional abuse, personal safety, discrimination, suicide, drugs, alcohol and gambling.

Everywhere I go I have seen the effects of violence , the shame and the stigma, it's haunting ... - Everywhere I go I have seen the effects of violence , the shame and the ... Such encounters, says Australia's outgoing ambassador for women and girls ...

Remote work-for-the-dole scheme 'devastating Indigenous communities' - The rental arrears across the whole lands, across 12 communities, have gone up from $50,000 to $350,000, in the short space of time since CDP's been introduced," she said.

A call to action to prevent Rheumatic Heart Disease in Indigenous Australia - The AMA is calling on all Australian governments and other stakeholders to work together to eradicate Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in Indigenous  ...

Practice area demand driving collaboration among law firms - It remains the case in Australia that Indigenous people are badly served by the legal system. In Victoria, 26 per cent of the prison population is ...

A new generation serves souls in Sydney - Keesee and his wife, Carley, live about 35 minutes away in the suburb of Ambarvale, where they serve as missionary apprentices with the SouthWest Church of Christ. They’ve brought a visitor from the U.S. to see the famous opera house and — after fighting off seagulls intent on stealing their fish and chips — spy a woman peering under the steps as her toddler watches from a stroller.

To Australia's shame, some of our towns and communities have 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  ...

Who owns a plant? - With more and more people relishing in the flora that has nourished Indigenous Australians for more than 50,000 years, John Newtown asks who ...

Hundreds rally for antibullying program in Australian schools following suicide - A 13-year-old boy named Tyrone Unsworth took his own life last month in Brisbane, Australia , after what his mother described as two years of ...

Indigenous trans community crowdfunds for pride parade - A world without the colourful and ecstatic celebration that is Australia's Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras? No thanks.  Cue the Tiwi Sistagirls. A transgender community of around 40 who reside in the Tiwi Islands, a small group of islands around 100km north of Darwin and officially part of the Northern Territory.

The gay fight is an ongoing fight': Paul Zahra in search of $1 million to support LGBTI youth - The two-year-old charity is one of the quiet achievers in a philanthropic space that is yet to be fully embraced by corporate Australia - a situation Mr ...

Royal commission told new detention centres no solution to incarceration crisis - In evidence continuing from Monday, Hamburger called for an overhaul of the youth justice system, led by Aboriginal people and communities, and the ...

Sex and ageing: Older people tell us what they really think - Rates of sexually transmissible infections among older Australians have increased in recent years and may continue to rise as more and more seniors ...

Aboriginal remains return to Tasmania from ANU collection, with a call to change the law - The process was rather seamless. The Australian National University in Canberra was very cooperative with us and facilitated everything we needed.

Why businesses and indigenous Australians are engaging more - The campaign by Australia's biggest businesses to boost engagement with Indigenous communities is gaining momentum, with Indigenous  ...

Pub owners respond to racism storm - A WITNESS to a racial incident outside the Palais Hotel at the weekend has backed reports the security told patrons no Aboriginal people were ...

The 10 things that made New Zealand prime minister John Key successful - John Key's resignation as Prime Minister of New Zealand yesterday was in itself ... He was trusted to look after people who slipped through the cracks.

Race begins for next New Zealand prime minister - Race begins for next New Zealand prime minister ... we are reshaping government to more effectively support people with complicated needs and to ...

Student alleged to have stolen dead Kiwi's identity to obtain loans - Mr Montgomery admits the ease of which people can find out other people's ... Mr Calder's case is not unique, even to New Zealand lawmakers.

Ten ways New Zealand might surprise you - This national festival is a biennial event celebrating Maori traditional ... There's the picture-postcard beauty, but New Zealand is so much more than the ...

Indonesian police make further arrests in West Papua protestors - Over two hundred people were arrested in Jakarta last week at a rally to mark the anniversary of the first raising of the banned Papuan nationalist ...

YMCA head on youth think tank - Acting Youth Minister Anne Tolley has appointed Arama Ngapo-Lipscombe as the Maori community representative on the Partnership Fund Board.

Policy ignores cultural trauma - The Maori Women's Welfare League says the number of Maori children caught up in state care means Maori need to be involved in any policy ...

Parker's support-crew to perform haka if he wins world title - The historical title bout to be staged in New Zealand for the first time in Heavyweight Boxing history will be a significant moment for Parker who has ...