Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Aboriginal Population Has More? - A new study has recently been conducted to identify the status of Hepatitis C treatment in Australia in which it has been found that the rate of the ...

Another rapid rise in Australia's prison population - The incarceration rate grew from 187.2 prisoners for every 100,000 Australian adults in 2014 to 216.2 in the third quarter of 2017—a rise of more than 15 percent. The most oppressed section of the working class, the Aboriginal population, has been hit hardest, with indigenous incarceration rates at an ...

Our policies aren't working': Why Australia's female prison population has SURGED by 10 per cent ... - The Medal of the Order of Australia recipient argued Aboriginal women were more likely to be homeless, leading them to be caught committing more ...

GST changes to channel more funding to remote communities - The category of indigenous in terms of distributing the money has become meaningless — proportionally, the Aboriginal population is doing well on the east coast, and as a population is doing extremely badly in central Australia .” The Papunya-Parramatta comparison was “a good argument”, she said.

Syphilis jumps to Western Australia ; doctors say 'complacent' safe sex attitudes to blame - Some sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in Western Australia , with Aboriginal communities in the north hit particularly hard by a syphilis outbreak. Across the population, Syphilis has more than doubled the five-year average, up 112 per cent. More than 95 per cent of cases reported in Perth ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

Seal death inquiry team targets Aboriginal elder  - The home of an Aboriginal elder has been raided by government officers ... The fur seal population in South Australia has increased to more than ...

Plan for more Indigenous teachers : There are currently 2400 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in Australia but Prof Buckskin said to "reach parity" with the total national population there must be approximately 5000. "Every individual teacher in a classroom has to be an ...

Coorong elder vows to kill all fur seals to protect pelicans  - An Aboriginal elder culling fur seals amid government inaction over their ... The fur seal population in South Australia has increased to more than ...