Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Warmer, drier homes on political agenda : Housing has come to national prominence as a health issue with the airing on TV3 on Tuesday of a documentary on child poverty . The feature emphasises poor housing's health effects, in particular, on respiratory disease. The Inside New Zealand ...

Gabor Maté: 'Organized insanity' for doctors to ignore health, poverty link Also presenting was New Zealand -based community health professor John Raeburn, a professor of Community Health Development at Auckland University of Technology (AUT)'s School of Public Health & Psychosocial Studies. He agreed that the medical ...

Key's National Party returned to power with huge majority in NZ : TONY EASTLEY: Soon after the people went to the polls in New Zealand , John Key looked to be a happy man - and with good reason. His New Zealand National Party has been returned to office with 48 per cent of the vote - its largest share in 60 years. ...

A child of New Zealand : This piece was inspired by this documentary on child poverty in New Zealand . Like many people, I was left feeling sick and very lucky. Though money is tight, we have enough to feed and house our family, and for that I am grateful. ...

Suspicions Surround Death of Papuan Student : A Papuan student, Carly Wilson Takimai, died mysteriously on Monday night just weeks after his Jakarta dormitory was raided by security officials. On Tuesday, Siprianus Bonai, chairman of the Jakarta Papuan Students Association, said that on Monday ...

Rising use and trafficking of illicit stimulants threaten security, health in ... : ATS rank among the top three drugs of use in all 15 countries surveyed in the region. In 10 of those countries, ATS use increased last year. Only Australia , Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines and the Republic of Korea reported stable or declining ... UN News Centre

Re-Counting Poverty : A review of evidence 5 from Britain, Canada, and Australia , as well as the US, finds that in practice presumably absolute poverty standards show a clear tendency to rise in inflation-adjusted terms along with increases in real income among the general ...

ABC Giving Tree: supporting the poor this Christmas : By Eleri Harris The holiday season is a struggle for Canberrans living below the poverty line, show your support by putting something under the Christmas Giving Tree at the ABC. Across Australia , over two million people, including more than one in 10 ...

Lessons from the history of HIV/AIDS in Australia – how activism changed the ... The media debated the merits of compulsory HIV testing for gay men, banning lesbian and gay events and quarantining people with AIDS. Perhaps what is most remarkable then about the history of HIV/AIDS in Australia is the extent to which AIDS activists ...

Gay marriage at the mercy of fear and prejudice : It may not happen in Australia soon, but change will come some day. Until then, people like me will get married someplace else, be it in New York or South Africa or the Iowan cornfields. We will be husbands and wives to the law overseas, and de factos ... Sydney Morning Herald

Parliament passes same-sex civil unions bill It prompted a strong reaction from gay rights, religious and family groups. Labor MPs were allowed a conscience vote, but the Liberal National Party indicated it would vote en bloc against the bill. Speaking in Parliament, Mr Fraser said it was 21 ...

Queensland Parliament debating civil unions bill The bill, if passed, will grant same sex couples the right to enter in to legally recognised civil unions, and has prompted a strong reaction from gay rights, religious and family groups. Labor MPs will be allowed a conscience vote, but the Liberal ...

Baird slams Nigeria over draconian bill boosting penalties for homosexuality It also targets those who support or even witness such unions or those who form gay -rights groups. Baird says Nigeria should ensure equal basic rights for all its citizens. At the October Commonwealth conference in Australia , Canada was part of a ...

Australian jailed for buying guns in US : "Mr Malkoun did not purchase the guns, including the two magazines, for any nefarious purpose, but simply due to a fascination with guns, obsessively so due to his mental illness ," Mr Blumberg told the court. Malkoun, who has been in custody in Arizona ...

Marie claire Shines A Light On Depression Mental illness is such a serious problem that by 2020, depression will be the second biggest killer, after heart disease, says the World Health Organisation. In Australia more than three million people experience mental illness each year and one in ...

Advocates applaud asylum visa decision : Australian College of Mental Health Nurses chief executive Kim Ryan said Australian health professionals had long held fears for the mental health of people in long-term detention, which had been proven to exacerbate mental illness . ...

Australia working to assist fragile states : More than 1.5 billion people live in fragile and conflict affected countries, and 12 of Australia's neighbours in Asia and the Pacific are classed as fragile. Caught in cycles of poverty and violence, few of these countries will achieve a single ...

Seven Young Australians Changing the World : Elliot co-founded YGAP (Y-Generation Against Poverty ), a movement of young people generating funds for projects around the world. One of the projects that Y-Gap are behind is Kinfolk Café, a Melbourne coffee shop that promotes ethical consumption, ...