Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Mental Health Nurses Do Not Routinely Assess for Effects of Antipsychotic Medications - A group of researchers in Australia investigated nurse practitioners' use of standardized assessment tools to monitor the effects of antipsychotic ...

Party in Australia with LGBTI events from January to March - It's no wonder then that tourists plan their trip to Australia to coincide with ... Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is a massive two week event full of ...

Australian 'Bachelor' Contestants Who Fell in Love With Each Other Defend Their Relationship - Megan Marx and Tiffany Scanlon both appeared on the Australian version of ... “I love Megan so much and I'm excited to share that love with Australia . ... in the judgemental backward thinking of society whether you are straight, gay , ...

Noel Pearson Cape York schools ink deal with Palaszczuk government - Under the partnership agreement, the department will be responsible for the operation of the Cape York Australia Aboriginal Academy campuses at ...

Historic meeting of Yuin nation agrees to massive native title claim in south-east New South Wales - "We have strong evidence and probably the strongest claim in Australia to prove native title over the water because of the way Yuin people have ...

The indigenous model who is going to change the world -  Magnolia Maynuru has had a big year. The 20-year-old was a finalist in the Miss World Australia Pageant, (the first NT woman to do so), the face of a ...

Wikitravel website labels South Australia as homophobic and says SA police will ignore or join in ... - Wikitravel website labels South Australia as homophobic and says SA ... “Violence towards LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people will ...

Apology to be published in 18 languages - The council assembled a team of 48 translators and linguistic experts to translate the text into 16 Aboriginal languages so that more people could ...

Whanau health flatlines as Canterbury's Maori population soars - If you are a Maori woman in Canterbury you are 40 per cent less likely to be screened for cervical cancer and four times more likely to be diagnosed ...

World's first ' Maori emoji app' embraces culture, country and cute animals - For awhile there, it seemed like there was a dearth of apps for New Zealand's Māori to express themselves digitally. But now there's Emotiki, which ...

The Mythical Māori “Taniwha” Features on New Gold and Silver Proof Coins - On December 19, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand launched a new set of coins with a mythical creature prevalent in Māori folklore—the mighty ...

'Everything can be burnt' - West Papua in the Jokowi era - The face of West Papuan society is changing but RNZ International found that the core ideology of these Melanesian people is not easily destroyed.

Four more charged with treason for Papuan demos - About 500 people were reported to have been arrested for participating in the demonstrations. Police in the Papua provincial capital Jayapura ...

Maori Land Service wananga meaningless -  Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell's announcement just before Christmas of further wānanga on the proposed Maori Land Service (MLS) ...

He Momo - Marae step up to support communities - Homelessness and the recent North Canterbury earthquake were two of the biggest crisis to hit New Zealand this year. While the government drew ...

Finding a way forward - I am very proud of what Aotearoa NZ has achieved in addressing, and to a certain extent, redressing the sins ... These are the so called "urban Maori ".

Dragon and the Taniwha: Maori and Chinese in New Zealand - How have two very different marginalised groups in New Zealand society - Maori and Chinese - interacted over the last 150 years? This important ...