Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Cosby shows wit, mental agility at court hearing despite lawyers' claims - Bill Cosby's lawyers insist the 79-year-old actor has vision and memory problems that make it difficult for him to help defend himself in his upcoming ...

As Australia reforms its laws to protect those with mental illness, is Queensland going backwards? - Every jurisdiction in Australia , except the Northern Territory, has been reforming its mental health laws in recent years. This is because governments ...

We don't know enough about mental health in Australian medical students - Recent evidence shows that Australian medical students also face mental health problems. Beyond Blue conducted the first nation-wide study in 2013.

Australia should create seventh state run by Indigenous people, lawyer Michael Mansell says -  Australia should create a seventh state run by Indigenous people, with its own parliament and court system, an Aboriginal lawyer and activist has ...

What will Indigenous treaties mean? -  Australia is the only Commonwealth country that does not have a treaty with its Indigenous peoples and interestingly, the states are leading the charge ...

The big issue facing indigenous Australia - Working to solve social issues within Aboriginal Australian communities is a “band-aid” fix, not a long-term solution, according to the first Indigenous  ...

Family-centred interventions for Indigenous early childhood well-being by primary healthcare ... - in Canada, Australia , New Zealand, and the USA, on a range of physical, psychosocial and behavioural outcomes of Indigenous children, parents and ...

The myth of 'over-funded' Indigenous communities - For instance, Roebourne in Western Australia's Pilbara is said to have 67 ... Yes, there are many who have risen from abject poverty , but the majority ...

Sydney to ease drinking 'lockout laws' - debate and prompted concerns that alcohol-related violence will increase. ... if any, big cities outside Australia have introduced curfews at venues.

Call for change in high-rise design to save lives - Planning Minister Richard Wynne is calling for other state governments to support a change to the National Construction Code, requiring suicide-prevention measures (such as barriers) to be included as part of new commercial, industrial and public buildings. During a meeting on Wednesday, the nation's building ministers agreed to commission research into how to reduce suicide, to be completed by March.

Dignity in death without assisted suicide - There is an inherent fear of death among Australians . We fear the unknown and we fear pain. It is those fears that drive popular opinion that medical ...

Warren Mundine tells Aboriginal groups to get house in order - There is enormous responsibility on Aboriginal groups across South Australia to ensure their “houses are in order” before they push for compensation ...

Bid to stop rise of new Stolen Generation - About 53 per cent of 4700 children in care in Western Australia are Aboriginal , despite making up only 7 per cent of the state's child population.

We should unite around indigenous recognition - The more talk there is of treaties, the less likely it is that Australians will come together to recognise indigenous people in our Constitution. As we report ...

Criminal Minds' Star Responds To Gay Rumors With A Challenge - I just think it's all silly. If you're gay , you're gay . I'm not, and I know that and I'm very comfortable with who I am and I love women,” he said. “I've dated ...

HPV vaccine offered to gay and bi men from January - HPV vaccine offered to gay and bi men from January ... no genital warts being seen now in Australia within the heterosexual population,” she said.

Retirement changes urged to avoid cost of super tripling - There were other ways of helping meet that bill other than the eligibility age, she said. That included increasing the length of residence required for New Zealand Superannuation from 10 years to 25 years, cumulatively, from the age of 20. Ms Maxwell also wanted to look at some of the special hardships facing people between the age of 50 and 70.

Government should be 'more patient, less reactive' on Papua issue - Government should be 'more patient, less reactive' on Papua issue ... But nowadays we have more people who studied in Japan, South Korea and ...

Demonstrations Demanding Self-Determination Continue - This year has also seen an increase in demonstrations outside the Papua region by young people supporting West Papuan rights and ...

Is our health system delivering what it should? - Further findings from Health Quality and Safety Commission found that up to 40 percent of Maori and Pacific people with bowel cancer did not find out ...

Metiria Turie speaks in the First Reading of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families - But the fundamental provision in this legislation is the deliberate intention to remove Māori children from Māori whānau for good. It is an assimilationist ...

Maori life expectancy rises by two years - The life expectancy of Maori has risen more than two years since 2006, a study has found. The researchers found life expectancy for both European ...

Anti- LGBT Activists Launch New “International Organization For The Family” - Brian Brown of the United States’s National Organisation for Marriage took over the group earlier this year. Rebranding as the International Organisation for the Family appears to be part of positioning the group as a more muscular advocacy group targeting marriage equality. This seems to be the culmination of years of talks to form an international group modelled on Brown’s work against marriage equality in the US and similar campaigns in other countries.

The Mayor of London's Strategy to Revive LGBT Nightlife - It's a strange time for LGBT nightlife in the UK's biggest city. On the one hand, you've got a burgeoning drag scene, the usual crammed smoking area ...