Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Speak Your Piece: 'Playing Indian'  - I was in the final semester of a degree in Indigenous studies and personally committed to addressing the tragic history of Australia's Indigenous people ...

Group-based drumming program improves mental health of prisoners  - An independent evaluation by The University of Western Australia of an ... social and emotional learning can improve the mental health of prisoners.

Teen insomnia linked to mental health problems  - PhD students surveyed 300 South Australian teens to better understand their sleeping habits, mental health condition and the time of day they were ...

Wesley Enoch says Australia lacks the vocal arts leaders it deserves  - He says that while for many Indigenous cultural leaders no idea is beyond the realms of possibility, the broader Australian cultural community lacks ...

Sex no longer in eye of the beholder  - So it is at the coalface of Australia's primary art market, where gallery owners ... While men pioneered the contemporary Aboriginal art market, veteran ...

dying young is often too common in Australia  - The infant mortality rate among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the ... " Australia is not doing so great on a global scale," Ms Ryder said.

Racism causing depression among Aborigines  - Mr Kennett, the chairman of charity beyondblue, says a survey of more than 1000 non- indigenous Australians showed Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Queensland police woman calls Aborigines 'scum bags' and 'oxygen thieves' on social media but ...  - Ms Capewell started Boomerang Justice last year after 20 years of working in the Western Australia prison system and interacting with Aboriginal  ...

Explorer reviled in anti-statue flyer  - In Stuart's Track, tells of the Scottish explorer giving the order to shoot Aboriginal people during an encounter at Mount Hay, in central Australia .

Song Nation: the album that shows showcases indigenous hip-hop  - It's a unique project - one where Australia's indigenous people are placing themselves and their stories right in the middle of the conversation.

A grown-up holiday in Australian paradise  - According to recent analysis, Australia's broadband speeds are a little bit slower than Romania, and based on my experiences of tropical far north ...

Call for all skin cancer types to be on register  - The Cancer Society of New Zealand Manawatu Centre aims to reduce the rate ... According to the ministry's latest cancer statistics, 2341 people were ...

Could ebola reach New Zealand ?  - Ebola, a viral disease, has killed at least 672 people in Guinea, Liberia, and ... However, horror at the crisis was all that was likely to be contracted by New ... "It is unlikely that New Zealand will have a case of ebola virus disease ...

Fact sheet aims for better care for transgender youth  - youth in New Zealand has been developed at the University of Auckland. ... Adolescent Health Survey (Youth'12) of more than 8,500 young people .

NZ Bishops ask Catholic voters to prioritise vulnerable people when voting  - The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference urged Catholic voters to vote political candidates or parties based on how they plan to protect the ...

Maori legally privileged in NZ, ACT leader says  - Despite that, Maori continued to suffer social disadvantages and that was one reason many people in New Zealand were comfortable with the way ...

Lorde urges young people to vote in election  - The 17-year-old has teamed up with the New Zealand Electoral Commission to release a video calling on young people to cast their vote. "Right now I ...

The Māori Party dismisses Act Party claims of race-based privilege  -  Māori Party Co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell says the Act leader's speech on race-based favouritism is divisive and designed to whip up anti- Māori  ...

BOP report highlights key tertiary education priorities  - Increasing Māori participation in tertiary education is crucial to the wellbeing and economic growth in the Bay of Plenty, according to a report ahead of ...

Sydney Business District "Rocked" by The Truth About Drugs  - That is, until a troop of men and women in traditional Maori costume transformed the otherwise ordinary day into a celebration--a celebration of ...