Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Older Queensland women are happiest  - THAT means retired Olympic swimmer Lisa Curry or controversial political aspirant Pauline Hanson could be among the ranks of the nation's most contented if the National Australia Bank's wellbeing index is anything to go by.

I adopted our foster child  - There are thousands of children out there waiting years to be adopted. ... a national disgrace how few local adoptions there are each year in Australia .

Aboriginal leader identifies with Jewish suffering on Holocaust Day  - Sol Bellear, chairman of the Aboriginal Medical Service Redfern, says his ... He said Aboriginal Australians , despite never being afforded their own ...

Persistent and Lithium Help SANE Deliver Online Communities for Australians Affected by Mental ...  - Around 1 in 5 experience mental health problems annually and approximately 2,000 Australians die by suicide every year. With funding from the ...

Indigenous use of aged care services far less than that of wider population  -  Indigenous Australians typically require aged care facilities earlier due to higher rates of disability and chronic disease.

Australia's treatment of asylum seekers 'diminishes human rights record'  -  Australia's global reputation as a defender of human rights is being ... “ Indigenous Australians account for only 3% of Australia's population [but] they ...

Indigenous Australians Face Poor Housing Conditions  - One in ten Indigenous Australian households in the public housing system are ... The latest report on housing conditions from Australia's Productivity ...

A remote Indigenous community in north-east Arnhem Land has welcomed its students back to  -    The truancy officers in yellow shirts, called melngu in the community, walk students to school in a bid to boost school attendance among Aboriginal  ...

Aboriginal stories tell of when the Great Barrier Reef was dry land  - Stories told by Australia's Aboriginal peoples tell of the time, over 10,000 years ago, when the last Ice Age came to an end, and sea levels rose by 120 ...

Nigel Scullion's eye on 'patchy' remote schools roll call  -  INDIGENOUS Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has returned to South Australia's remote Aboriginal lands as students start a new school year, looking to ...

Top houses tread carefully  -  Australian Art Sales Digest reports the results from more than 40 Australian and New Zealand art auctioneers. Arthouse Auctions is not one of them.

Black Rainbow aims to shine bright  - As an Aboriginal gay man myself, I started thinking 'hang on there's ... Bonson, who works as a Social Worker in North Western Australia , said it was ...

New Zealand's Skin Cancer Rate Called A 'Timebomb' Waiting To Explode  - A top dermatologist in New Zealand has called skin cancer in the country a “time bomb” waiting to explode on the ageing population. ... According to Reiche, people between 60 and 70 years old had spent time outdoors at a time ...

Opposition against tax rebate nothing new  - The New Zealand wine industry body is defending exporters being able to ... But New Zealand Wine Growers chief executive Philip Gregan said the ... Some people in Australia have tried to describe the wet rebate to New Zealand  ...

Brother of Kiwi found dead in Thailand: 'She was one of those people everyone liked' - Brother of Kiwi found dead in Thailand: 'She was one of those people ... Much of her family were still in New Zealand , including a brother, Aaron ...

New Zealand's Climate Movement is growing  -  New Zealand's Climate Movement is growing bigger and more organised”, said OFO member Rosemary Penwarden on the eve of the “Taranaki's ...

5000 people face food shortages after PNG storm  - More than 5,000 people in Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands province are facing a food shortage after a hailstorm destroyed food gardens.

How I fell in love with wild and wonderful New Zealand  - Lots of young people , most likely third-level students, were walking around in ... I moved to New Zealand in 2005 and settled in to life in a picturesque ...

Academic says rates for multiple landowners unfair  - An academic says multiple owners of unproductive Māori land should not have to pay their rates while wealthy non- Māori are given rates holidays by ...

Outrage at calls for Waitangi burqa ban  - A number of Maori see Muslims as the new coloniser, “coming to our country and refusing to accept the indigenous values of New Zealand ,” he said.