Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Speed limit changes and new rules for over 70s drivers in South Australia  - South Australian drivers face a number of important changes to road rules from this week affecting such things as speed limits and older motorists.

Expert says Pacific businesses key to easing poverty  - One of the region's leading private sector experts will tell an Australian ... to use the private sector to help alleviate poverty in the Pacific the best way to ...

Poverty 90% solved' by traditional marriage  - Ninety per cent of poverty could be solved through the affirmation of marriage between a man and woman, a contentious conference in Melbourne has heard. A day after state and federal Liberal MPs pulled out of the World Congress of Families in the face of a political backlash, US campaigner Larry Jacobs added to the controversy surrounding the event by claiming poverty could be reduced if only children were raised in traditional families.

Loved ones want national inquiry into FIFO suicide deaths  - The pair met in 2008 as university students in South Australia , where ... an inquiry into the mental health of FIFO workers after a spate of suicide deaths ...

Australian Activists Successful Fight Back Against World Congress of Families  - The World Congress of Families' planned conference in Melbourne this weekend is in disarray as Australian LGBT and women's rights activists ...

Prime Minister or Village Idiot?  -  Australia was founded on bloodshed, and its historical identity and its ... Indigenous people” was a defining moment, profoundly shaping Australia .

Native American-inspired attire criticised as culturally inappropriate  - There would be mass outcry if white English people were going to Glastonbury dressed up like Indigenous Australians ," says Brisbane music writer ...

Healing trauma key to closing the gap  - Seeing indigenous Australians through the prism of trauma could be the key to closing the gap with non- indigenous Australians , according to UOW's ...

Women prisoner numbers rise  - In 1996, about 21% of women in prison were Aboriginal , last year it was 33%. The rate of increase is much greater than that of men. Australia has the ...

Dementia is scariest for baby boomers - expert here in NZ   - Getting dementia tops the list of fears for older people including baby boomers, ... “A lot of Australians and New Zealanders don't have a religious faith.

Joint surgery needs tipped to surge  - By the late 2020s New Zealand will have more than 1 million people aged over 65. It is predicted that will lead to 84 percent more hip replacements ...

Candidate calls for an end to institutional racism  - The Māori Party has a private members bill ready for the new parliament, which introduces legislation to set a standard to eliminate institutional racism.

Question mark over Maori prostate diagnosis rates  - “I think we have to do a lot more for Maori [men],” Dr Johnson says, in the wake of newly published findings confirming inequalities in prostate cancer ...

Making tertiary education more accessible to Māori  - The Māori Party launched its tertiary education policy today at Te Huinga Tauira o Te Mana Ākonga, the national hui for the Māori Teritary Students ...

NZ fashion tops world in indigenous design   -  Maori designers are ahead of the world in terms of indigenous fashion design and they'll be showing what they've got at New Zealand Fashion Week.

When science meets aboriginal oral history  - The sequenced genome of an Aboriginal from Australia also revealed findings in line with the local communities' oral histories, Willerslev says.

Online resource launches for gay Aussie teens  - A mental health program specifically designed for same- sex -attracted youth has been developed and is now being tested ...

Canada should look at how other countries deal with aboriginal education  -  Australia and New Zealand are both former British colonies. How do their governments handle aboriginal education? Are either of them producing ...

Politicians pull out of conservative World Congress of Families conference  - The event is scheduled to host a lineup including anti-euthanasia, anti-divorce and anti- gay rights speakers from around the world. Guardian Australia

Indigenous scholars awarded for academic excellence  - Three inspiring Indigenous Australians will undertake study at two of the world’s most prestigious universities after receiving the Charlie Perkins Scholarship in Canberra today. Recipients of the Charlie Perkins Scholarship undertake postgraduate courses at either Oxford or Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.