Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Yes, there is a second Stolen Generations – and it is worse - There is an insidious second Stolen Generation where more children than ... Western Australia's child protection lot will soon announce that they are ...

Bankstown elders win top art prize for storytelling ceramic creation - And that, she says, was the idea behind Bankstown's Koori Elders Group's latest award-winning work. The group spent six months creating Murris and ...

Mayor Criticized for Controversial Statements About $2 Billion Museum Memorial Australia ... - The mayor of the the Australian city of Hobart has come under fire over her comments about a planned Aboriginal memorial at Tasmania's Museum of ...

Red Professor's legacy goes beyond politics - Unfortunately, the majority of Australian reviewers of Red Professor – with a handful of notable exceptions – have failed to focus sufficiently on his major contribution to Australian anthropology and on how his work contested the institutional racism of that time.

The Anti-Science Craze Driven By Millennials - The new survey found that just 35% of the public said they trust scientists "a lot" when it comes to the health effects of genetically modified foods.

Pets can help people manage serious mental illness, study finds - Pets can help people manage serious mental illness, study finds ... of South Australia said was more common among people with mental illness.

Domestic violence leave a cost: Cormann -  Instead, it is usually only when that violence escalates to a tragic, deadly level ... for victims of domestic violence – should be a no-brainer: straightforward, ... left-right ideological divide, this would appear a bridge too far in Australia at ...

Research exposes isolation and abuse among immigrant and refugee women - Dr Vaughan said they discovered the cultural backgrounds of abusers varied. In some cases, the perpetrators of violence were Anglo- Australians .

Weaving Indigenous sounds and stories into yoga - A Sydney-based yoga organisation is fusing Indian and Indigenous yoga traditions, incorporating the spirit of Aboriginal Australia into the ancient ...

Helping farming communities deal with suicide and mental health - I was 30 years old, I didn't have a girlfriend and it hit me like a tonne of bricks," he said. Mr Kenna spent 10 days at a facility in Warrnambool after a breakdown, but came back with the help of family, especially his father who ensured his friends visited him. A few years later he met and married Betty and she was there for a second episode, prompted by the death of his father in 1999. 

We shouldn't wait for tragedy before making laws fairer - Both moves earn Weatherill and the government of the first state to decriminalise homosexuality in Australia a big thumbs up and a full-throated ...

Drive for indigenous recognition knocked off course by treaty demands - Constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians has been blindsided by more radical demands, with an official forum in Hobart insisting that plans ...

Key organiser of Pope John Paul II's meeting with Indigenous Australians recalls blessed day - Key organiser of Pope John Paul II's meeting with Indigenous Australians ... of the pope's meeting with indigenous people from across Australia .

Lost story of early sailors' first contact with Aboriginal people 'up there with Burke and Wills' says ... - It's also one of Australia's greatest cross-cultural stories," he said. The ship Sydney Cove was on a trade mission from India to the new colony at Port ...

Australia seeks UN rights body seat despite criticism -  Australia's abusive refugee policies and over-representation of indigenous people in prison are stains on Australia's human rights reputation,” she ...

Positive image of Indigenous Dads on Stage at Belvoir - All too often, the narrative around Indigenous Australians in the public sphere is negative and politicised. Indigenous theatre provides an opportunity ...

Record numbers of Maori doctors graduate from med school - The largest number of Māori medical students in New Zealand's history will ... Bennett said he and his fellow Maori graduates were very close. "We are ...

Former PM urges PNG to empower people outside capital - A former Papua New Guinea prime minister says the country could be headed for trouble if people continue to feel they lack control over their own ...

Incarcerated in West Papua , my son endured a six-month ordeal - The Papuan prosecutor told me, 'I know your son has done nothing. ... of West Papua's people massacred since Indonesia appropriated it in 1969.

Thousands of West Papuans mark human rights day - At least 6000 West Papuans are estimated to have demonstrated in the ... put the number of demonstrators between six and eight thousand people .

How our drug laws disproportionately affect Māori - When we were 17, a Māori friend of mine was strip-searched, punched in the face and arrested in her underwear as she was charged for holding $20 ...

A Safe Haven for Children in State Care - In the 1960's Maori babies were placed with pakeha families who didn't know their whakapapa and in some cases told the children they were Spanish ...

Cancer coordinators would benefit Maori patients - Cancer coordinators would benefit Maori patients ... Past reviews of have found disparities in access Maori get to diagnosis and treatment as being a ...

Casual youth worker for Maori performing arts - Casual youth worker for Maori performing arts. Summary. We're looking for a motivated youth worker to join our growing service on a casual basis.