Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Govt 'pays for mental health failure'  - The federal government is wasting $10 billion a year on a mental health system that fails its patients, Australia's leading experts have told a Senate ...

Is 'headspace' really improving young people's mental health?  - To help overcome this low rate of help-seeking, the Australian government set up a National Youth Mental Health Foundation, called headspace, ...

Julia Gillard has expressed her support for a conscience vote on same-sex marriage in Australia ...  - That is, recognising that marriage is between a man and a woman, but we have as a government taken steps to equalise treatment for gay couples.”.

Chemical castration to be considered in sentencing Australian child molesters  - An Australian government is contemplating the use of chemical castration, or sexual suppression medication, ...

Cultural barriers are testing a local childcare  -  Child Australia is the only company that Little Angels Early Learning Centre has access to for outside training and getting a consultant to come out and ...

Autism cases are becoming more prevalent in Australia ; Researchers wonder why  - A recent survey has revealed that more children are being diagnosed with autism in Australia . However, the researchers are unsure whether it is ...

No to violence against women  - Base Amberley are taking a stand against violence against women by throwing their support behind White Ribbon Australia  ...

School banned from screening LGBT film  - The film was to be shown to support LGBT students as part of Wear it Purple Day, an Australian initiative to show support for young gay people.

Meet in the Middle for Cross-Sector Success  - Likewise, we're seeing a rise in Indigenous procurement, with the Australian Government recently announcing that 3 per cent of new domestic ...

Federal Liberal MP calls for migrants and Indigenous people to be recognised in constitution  - So I think it's something we can all be proud of, but really the whole of Australia , apart from the Indigenous people, are represented by migration.".

JN Gumbula: an elder who shared his vast indigenous knowledge  - It is with great sadness Australia mourns the passing of pre-eminent indigenous elder and public intellectual JN Gumbula: scholar, artist and cultural ...

PM admits he wasn't cool with school  - TONY Abbott has told young indigenous students he sometimes got in fights as a ... and should be a model for indigenous townships across Australia .

Welcome to Country' app teaches users about Aboriginal culture in Australia  - The first version of the Welcome to Country app contains more than 30 tribes and language groups, of over 500 groups, across Indigenous Australia .

Native title agreements cover more than a quarter of Australia  -  Indigenous land use agreements cover more than 25% of Australia [ILUA map], from the remote Islands of the Torres Strait where 60 agreements are ...

Can New Zealand reap the benefits of workplace diversity?  - In a poll of both employers and employees in New Zealand by recruiting experts Hays, 55% of employees say their organisation’s public face and the way they portray themselves on issues like diversity isn’t a true representation of the real business culture.

Breaking cinema's last taboo  - The new film 45 Years features an explicit scene involving older actors - why ... Until a few years ago, mainstream films featuring elderly people having ...

Bishop calls for talks over Cook Islands homosexuality law  - Te Tiare Association, which supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people , plans to draft an amendment to repeal laws that criminalise ...

New Study Shows Single People Are Just as Happy as People in Couples  - A new study by Social Psychological and Personality Science from the University of Auchland in New Zealand found that it's possible to be just as ...

More support needed for pregnant mums  - More focus is needed on both the mental and physical health of mothers to be, according to a Maori advisor to the Growing Up in New Zealand study.

Focus on opportunities for Māori industry  -  Focus on opportunities for Māori industry, business and economy. Global indigenous trade partnerships, transformational fisheries models and how ...