Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Paramedics to be fitted with body cameras after violent assaults soar - The Andrews government has funded 200 cameras for 150 paramedics as part of a $2.7m violence prevention fund directed at health workers.

Never too late to fall in love - THIS year our Messenger reporters have met — and been inspired by — many older South Australians who are continuing to live life to the full into the 80s, 90s and beyond. They provide a fabulous reminder that we are never too old to learn, to laugh — or to fall in love. Here are just five of the stories we’ve covered in 2016.

100000 mentally ill lose NDIS cover - Official modelling shows more than 100,000 severely mentally ill people who ... This figure, according to Mental Health Australia , is only a measure of ...

Hate Group Gives Kids Fake Christmas Presents On School Buses with Anti- Gay Pamphlets Inside - School children in Victoria, Australia got a cruel surprise this week when an anti- gay advocacy group had school bus drivers hand out pamphlets that ...

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  ...

Bold, brilliant Indigenous Australian women's art – in pictures - A new exhibition at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria puts the work of female Indigenous artists front and centre. With more than 200 pieces by 118 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, Who’s Afraid of Colour? features paintings, installations, sculpture and textural work from some of Australia’s most important contemporary artists – some never before shown to the public

HEALS program gives Aboriginal children access to surgery, therapy for hearing loss -  Aboriginal families, even in Australia's capital cities, struggled to access care, and waiting lists for speech therapists and surgery stretched into years, ...

Aboriginal woman's slaying exposes Australia's racial divide - Her blood was everywhere: between her legs and on the remains of the recently burned mattress partly hidden in the sand. And it was on the jeans worn by one of the two men who were with Lynette when she died. A coroner found that Lynette bled to death from a sex act she was subjected to while she was so deeply intoxicated that she could not have consented. A forensic pathologist dubbed her injuries more severe than those that occur in even precipitous childbirth.

Australia's aboriginals reclaim stolen artifacts - An Australian aboriginal group has just completed a tour of European museums in a bid to retrieve items taken from their ancestors in the 18th century.

Genomes of healthy older Australians to accelerate medical research in NSW and beyond - Information about the genome sequence of 1,200 of Australia's healthy older people has been made available to medical researchers worldwide, with ...

Students tricked with Christmas cards, really anti- LGBT pamphlets - Schoolchildren in Australia were excited to get on the bus in hopes of receiving an early Christmas after their drivers handed them shiny golden ...

Rabbis oppose assisted suicide legislation -  AUSTRALIAN rabbis across the religious spectrum appear united against assisted suicide , as the Victorian government considers whether to become ...

How Blacks and Whites Die Differently Behind Bars -  New data released Thursday from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows a stark difference in how white and black inmates are dying in the nation's ...

Global benefits of indigenous soil knowledge - Soil is basic to our survival, Dr Tuivavalagi of the College of Micronesia-FSM says the knowledge that indigenous people hold in relation to soil can ...

Big tobacco 'winning the battle for the hearts and lungs' - Data from the 2015/16 New Zealand Health Survey released today shows that overall, 14% of adult New Zealanders (520,000) are smoking daily: 36% of Maori (172,000); 23% of Pacific people (51,000); and 12.5% of ...

National study finds 'staggering' Maori and Pacific problem gambling rates -  Maori and Pacific adults are five to eight times more likely to become problem gamblers than other New Zealanders , a new study has found.

Development & injustice – what is happening to PNG? - Wealth is still limited to a small handful of people . ... In Papua New Guinea, Peter O'Neill thinks developing flyovers, arenas and palatial buildings in ...

Helping families maintain Māori language - Maureen Muller, who graduated this morning with a PhD in Māori Studies, wanted to find out how families who are succeeding in raising their children ...

Smoking continues to drop in NZ  - The researchers found this decline occurred across demographic groups, including Māori and young adults, though Māori continue to have the ...

Hāpai Te Hauora calls for stronger tobacco control in NZ -  Māori have the highest current smoking rate of 38.6%, Pacific at 25.5% compared to European at 14.5%. Although the Māori current smoking rate has ...