Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Wellness gets better in Australia - Australia is attracting more tourists and co-founder of Health and Fitness Travel Australia’s - the first local wellness travel specialist, Samantha Lippiatt says, “We have seen the local demand for wellness travel increase more than triple since our launch in 2014. Wellness travel is here to stay. Whether here or abroad, more Australians are keen to experience the benefits of wellness travel”.

Refugee on Nauru claims medical treatment for severe heart problems been delayed without reason - A statement from a Department of Immigration spokesperson said refugees requiring medical treatment can be transferred to Port Moresby or Australia  ...

46 cases of breast implant cancer diagnosed in Australia and New Zealand - Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) occurs near breast implants and is linked to bacteria accidentally introduced during implant surgery and textured implants -popular in Australia - are 70 times more likely to be contaminated. Three of the 46 confirmed cases of ALCL led to death, The Age reported. Health experts had thought the frequency of ALCL to be between one in three million and one in 50,000, the ABC reported. 

Professor Marmot's lectures in Australia chart extent of health inequality -  Therefore four lectures delivered by Professor Sir Michael Marmot in Sydney during September provided a refreshing antidote to these prevailing winds. Ill health, quality of life and life expectancy are directly related to socio-economic status. Marmot’s lectures, Fair Australia: Social Justice and the Health Gap, presented a wealth of data charting health inequality and its underlying social causes.

Aboriginal Woman Brutal Death In Custody Exposes Australia's Shame - The harrowing clip from Aug. 4, 2014, shows police officers dragging Ms. Dhu, who appears to be unconscious. An hour later she was dead. She was 22 years old. Ms. Dhu was reportedly arrested over unpaid fines of $2,626 in South Hedland, Western Australia, only two days before she died in custody. During her detention, Ms. Dhu complained about pain in her ribs. Although she was taken to the hospital at least twice, coroner Ros Fogliani claimed a chest X-ray was not performed nor was her temperature taken.

Aussies warned about Indonesia travel -  AUSTRALIA has put out a new travel warning about the threat of terrorism in ... “Types of attacks have included suicide bombing and small-arms fire, ...

Social Justice Statement encourages a more caring response to our ageing population - As Australia's population continues to age, the need to respect the dignity of older people, provide for their needs and embrace them as important ...

Why So Many Older , Single Women Are at Risk of Homelessness - They've worked or been caretakers (or both) their whole lives, but they are the fastest growing homeless demographic in Australia —thanks to a ...

6 native ingredients you should cook with this Christmas - There's far more to bush food than kangaroo meat and witchetty grubs, Australia is blessed with some of the most delicious endemic fruits, pulses and ...

Indigenous doctors graduate, but thousands more needed -  Australia's two newest Indigenous doctors say they have overcome significant obstacles to complete their degrees, but were driven by a passion to ...

It's way too early to write off Aboriginal reconciliation - This is the first time Indigenous Australians have been authorised to design and undertake their own nationwide consultation process and it concerns ...

Our Thoughts On Overwatch's Tracer Being Gay - With the release of Overwatch's holiday comic, gamers saw the game's first openly gay character: Tracer. Many of us here at Kotaku, an Overwatch ...

New research project to spotlight LGBTIQ domestic and family violence - ACON is amongst several recipients of a $1.8 million funding injection by Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS) ...

Online petitions made great strides for Aussie LGBTI people in 2016 - In Queensland and South Australia , the state governments committed to abolishing the “terribly homophobic law” known as the gay panic defence ...

Van rams Australian Christian Lobby HQ and explodes - A van carry gas cylinders was driven into the Canberra office of the Australian Christian Lobby and set alight causing damage to the building.

Professor Marmot's lectures in Australia chart extent of health inequality - The child poverty rate in the US was 25 percent. In Australia it was 28 percent. After taxes and transfers, which take into account welfare benefits, the ...

Tougher liquor control needed on the evidence of emergency rooms - And if that is not despicable enough, the drunk and his or her inebriated companions are often abusive and violent to emergency room staff trying to deal with them. "Absolutely diabolical," our heading on this story yesterday, was the gentlest description doctors could have given. They said it wasn't uncommon for to be vomited on, spat at, verbally abused, threatened, pushed and wrestled with as they were trying to help these people. Others were semi-comatose, unable to speak and lying in pools of their own vomit. As one doctor put it, they are "over" dealing with these people.

Departing city missioner says poverty 'a scandal' - The use of drugs had increased and people were coming into the City Mission with more complex problems. "Once they came because they wanted a food parcel. Now they come wanting a food parcel but also being addicted to drugs, and maybe having difficulty with their children and maybe having relationship breakdowns."

Human rights groups protest over 500 arrests of Papuan demonstrators - A total of 528 people , including several children were arrested in the peaceful rallies across Indonesia's most eastern province of Papua . A number ...

No glory in Rangiawhia closure - Northland MP Winston Peters is unhappy at the explanation given for the closure of a far north Maori immersion school. Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o ...

World Landscape of the Year 2016 is "about respect for water" says landscape architect Grant Bailey - It's really about respect for the water in a cultural context, a Maori worldview," Bailey says. "We've taken a cultural idea of a hīnaki and placed these ...

Medical Cannabis - Harmful or beneficial? - Wellington researchers are calling for doctors to be more involved in the debate around cannabis as a medicine. In a recent article in the New Zealand  ...

Emotiki, world's first Maori emojis, launch - Emotiki' includes more than 200 free Maori icons that can be shared through ... are all included, and Te Puia are already welcoming new suggestions.

Swim Reaper' campaign aims to promote water safety - The Maori population are very over-represented in this category and 23% over the last five years of all preventable drownings have been Maori men.