Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Neo-Colonial Culture Needs to Change  - Ask any Yolŋu person (Aboriginal person from north-east Arnhem Land) and they will tell you the deep levels of mistrust that exist just under the surface of relationships between themselves and the general mainstream Northern Territory culture. They will have hundreds of stories to tell about their experiences, from being manhandled and abused by security guards in shopping centres, seeing their relatives assaulted when police are called to control a disturbance, in colleges where they struggle to be heard, their difficulties in the hospital and medical system, where

Arbitrary job quotas aren't the way to do business  - Well, in politically correct Australia , you can forget about that. Thanks to our ... Indigenous Australians are 3 per cent of the population. Woe betide the ...

Zoetis partners with beyondblue to support mental health in rural Australia  - In an effort to support good mental health and reduce suicide rates across rural Australia , animal health company Zoetis has become a supporting ...

Emotional abuse of children is a growing problem in Australia  -  Indigenous Australian children were seven times more likely to be receiving child protective services in 2014 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare ...

Abuse in youth detention centres not restricted to the Northern Territory  - On the face of it, Australia has a relatively comprehensive complaints-based ... In January 2016, it was reported that an 11-year-old Indigenous boy ...

Best way to tackle suicide rates is to be honest about our own mental health: Suicide Prevention ...  - The conference was run by Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA), and attended by researchers, service suppliers and people with a personal ...

Indigenous organisations push for royal commission into suicide rates < -  Indigenous organisations push for royal commission into suicide rates ... commission into the devastating rates of Indigenous suicide across Australia .

Property and income widens the great generational divide for Generation Y, new research shows  - Mr McCrindle questioned why young Australians were not more vocal about their ... Mr McCrindle said Australia needed innovation in areas such as tax, superannuation and transferring wealth between generations to allow older  ...

This Video Will Make You Want To Grow Old In Australia  - With so many negative images floating around about what aging looks like, this Australian video ad campaign that celebrates growing old Down ...

New Zealand experts warn Australia data-driven welfare 'abuses and brutalises'  - But poverty experts in New Zealand say the Australians are signing up to a system that is routinely harming, rather than helping, New Zealand's most ...

7 Things To Know About Australia's Children's Prison Abuse Scandal  - In another, guards repeatedly sprayed six teenagers - all of them Aboriginal - with tear gas after they allegedly began to act aggressively to Don Dale ...

Hepatitis B awareness falling behind, doctors warn  - With two-thirds of people living with Hepatitis B in Australia having been born overseas, or being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, there ...

Young offender's torture exposed  - A former guard at the Don Dale Centre in Darwin told the Australian ... highest crime rates in Australia , with indigenous offenders making up more than ...

Marriage Alliance faces showdown over anti- same-sex marriage spam emails - The office of the Australian information commissioner wrote to the anti-marriage-equality group on Tuesday and said it had missed a 22 June deadline ...

The Problematic Gender Politics Between Masc and Fem Gays  - In this day and age, it's almost old hat for gay characters on popular TV to trend more toward Homer Simpson than Waylon Smithers. From Happy ...

How much additional money will be needed for the plebiscite?  - Shelton reiterated his belief that Australians are yet to fully consider the effects of allowing same sex couples to wed, despite years of public debate.

Go Back to New Zealand ” Aussie Racist Rant Goes Viral  - A racist rant video that cropped up on Tuesday has made the rounds over 2,000,000 times after people shared it via various social media platforms.

Māori reoffending too complex to blame on Corrections  - At any point in time, the vast majority of Māori are not incarcerated or subject to a community-based sentence. Most New Zealanders understand that ...

Hikoi around New Zealand's historical Maori sites  - We asked for videos of your travels around New Zealand as part of our Scenic Route competition and Rebecca Handley sent us this clip of a hikoi ...

Director James Cameron on How New Zealand Influenced the 'Avatar' Franchise  - I was obviously subconsciously influenced by Maori culture. And then as I went back to New Zealand to make Avatar the movie…I started to learn ...