Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

What was life in Australia like before European settlement? - The National Library of Australia recently released a book called Living with the Locals – Early Europeans’ Experience of Indigenous Life. Authors John Maynard & Victoria Haskins present nine stories relating to a total thirteen people who escaped penal servitude or survived shipwreck. With at least one notable exception (and more on that anon), they experienced the hospitality of Indigenous people, often being accepted as part of their families. Each story is written in two parts, the overall background followed by a number of pages providing summary and more detailed information on Indigenous life. The level of research and understanding removes much of the ambiguity that previously existed.

Finding the next Indigenous football star! - Compared to other codes football is lagging. Indigenous people make up two and a half per cent of the total Australian population, but in the AFL they make up nine percent of the playing list while the NRL boast’s even higher figures with 12 percent. During the 2015/16 A-League season one time Socceroo and current Brisbane Roar Defender Jade North, was the only Indigenous representative in Australia's top flight. 

Maria Lutz gassed to death inside Sydney home with autistic children was part of ... - A family friend said the mother-of-two who was gassed to death inside her home with her husband and their autistic children would have known of the ...

More Indigenous Doctors Aim To Close Australia's Health Gap -  Vinka Barunga was born in the Worrara tribe of the Mowanjum Aboriginal community in the remote town of Derby in Western Australia. As a child, she witnessed disease and suicide amongst her people, which made her resolve to one day become a doctor and help break this cycle of suffering. She is one of six, the largest cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) students, to graduate in Medicine/Surgery from the University of Western Australia this year.

The Surprising Reason Cardiac Deaths Spike Around The Holidays - The researchers found that the kiwis, too, suffer from a yuletide spike in cardiac death . The study reviews New Zealand mortality data on over 700,000 ...

The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016 - There aren’t many people, let alone teenagers, who can say they changed banking history. But Kaelin Farnish, 17, did just that after contacting BuzzFeed News to explain that they could not open a bank account because they did not identify as male or female – and every British bank demands customers tick one of two gender boxes. Being nonbinary, Farnish felt alienated by what is, for most people, a mundane administrative process. So they spoke out. When the story broke, internet trolls subjected Farnish to abuse merely for saying that banks should recognise that not everyone is male or female, and that gender is a spectrum. But it wasn’t just trolls who saw the story. An employee of Metro Bank – Britain’s newest high street bank – saw the article and showed it to senior executives. Five months later, Metro made an announcement: It was to become the first bank in history to welcome nonbinary customers, by adding a “nonbina

Clinical trials for inject-able PrEP treatment start - People's ability to stick to a treatment regime was one of the areas of concern raised by Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee ...

Can You Travel to Australia With Medical Cannabis? - If you live in one of the 28 American states that have legalized medical cannabis and are planning a trip Down Under to celebrate, you might be ...

Remember Carrie Fisher: A One-Woman Force - She would later realise, as many do, that this was part of a self-medication cycle for her mental illness. At a time when admitting to such an affliction ...

Why Bob wants us to be a nuclear dump -  “I do appreciate the very strong feelings held by people in this issue,” he said. “The simple fact is (compared) to fossil fuel power stations nuclear power is clean. They are necessary to reduce the impact of fossil fuel. “There is a natural concern among most Australians that we don’t want to become a nuclear dump.” He said those concerns need to be addressed by rationally analysing the situation of climate change.

The sunburnt country - THERE is a unique quality to the light in Australia. The sky seems bluer than it should, and the landscape leaps at you with golden browns, burnt oranges and warm yellows. The sun’s rays burn and destroy, but also illuminate and comfort. It is something Australians instantly identify as a symbol of their home. Now at the National Gallery in London, as winter shrouds the capital’s skyline with grey, an exhibition full of this distinctive light is on show. “Australia’s Impressionists” is the collected work of four 19th-century artists. Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts, Charles Conder and John Russell, although highly regarded down under, have remained relatively unknown in Europe. This display should help change that.

950 students participate in 'Colours of Australia ' art competition - The competition is meant to bring Australia closer to Kuwait. ... of the oldest continuing civilizations in the world in our indigenous population.

Maori admitted to mental health services at higher rates than non- Maori - I'm not a dark-skinned Maori , I have a lighter shade of hair. It is difficult when you walk in the Pakeha and the Maori world as well as the schizophrenic ...

A wonderful new neighbourhood': Fletcher Residential buys 'sacred' Maori land at Ihumatao in ... - A wonderful new neighbourhood': Fletcher Residential buys 'sacred' Maori land at Ihumatao in south Auckland video ...

Summer sun a bigger killer than New Zealand's roads -  Summer sun a bigger killer than New Zealand's roads ... In 2013, 489 people died from skin cancer compared with 253 people on the roads for the ...

The hottest exercise trends for New Zealand in 2017 - But are these trends really new, real, or relevant to New Zealanders ? Here are 2017's trends that might actually make it into Kiwis lives, if they haven't ...

How to cut the road toll - Could driverless cars be the answer to New Zealand's abysmal road toll? What about median barriers on all major roads? Morgan Tait asks the experts what they believe could stop so many people dying needlessly on our roads. This week, the Herald has investigated the impact - and cause - of the 66 fatal and 389 serious crashes during the last five Christmas and New Year road toll periods.

Exercise the best new year's resolution - The Exercise Association of New Zealand (ExerciseNZ) wants people to put their mental wellbeing first when considering New Year's resolutions and ...

Kiwi pro-Israel group condemns NZ -sponsored UN resolution - Auckland Pro-Israel blogsite Shalom Kiwi are condemning the government's support of the UN Security Council Resolution 2334 regarding the ...

Name of the highway: - Opotiki was one of the first parts of New Zealand to be settled by Maori, and these days close to 60 per cent of the town's population of around 5000 is Maori. A feature of the town is the main street which is decorated with the works of master carvers. Another feature is Hukutaia Domain which is a 5ha remnant of native forest, and which has more than 1500 varieties of native plants, including Taketakerau, a sacred puriri tree estimated to be 2500 years old.