Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

LGBT Groups, Conservatives Outraged As Straight Mates Marry for Rugby Tickets  - Two heterosexual men in New Zealand got married Friday for a radio ... has come under fire from both LGBT and conservative groups in the country.

Delegates confirm attendance at West Papua conference  - The Chairman also calls on the people of Vanuatu to stand as one to show the ... state, cares for its fellow Melanesians in Indonesia's Papua region.

Government urged to curb young Aboriginal suicide rates through education  - Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson from the Wambool Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Team held workshops this month, tackling the issue of suicide in young Indigenous people in Dubbo. Professor Atkinson is an Indigenous health expert. She said the problem of suicide in Indigenous communities is wide spread in regional Australia.

Indigenous health and domestic violence agencies fear they may fold following budget changes  - The Government's new $4.8 billion Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) ... safety and wellbeing, culture and capability and remote Australia strategies, they will ... lives and also compete with larger, non- Indigenous organisations.

The recognition movement must unify or it will fail  - The most recent petition, presented in 2008, requested "full recognition of indigenous rights in the Australian Constitution." In the ensuing six years that ...

Jail rates for Indigenous women soar as legal funding cuts loom  - The rate of non- Indigenous women going to jail also increased, by 13%, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

RMIT Gallery showcases indigenous art from remote WA  - The indigenous art of remote Western Australia comes to Melbourne in two complementary exhibitions at RMIT Gallery. The stories of Christianity and ...

Indigenous health and domestic violence agencies fear they may fold following budget changes  -  We've built trust and confidence and increasingly over time Aboriginal ... development and delivery of projects, and employ Indigenous Australians .".

Incarceration of Indigenous women spikes in past year  -  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women make up just 2 per cent of the population but more than a third of women in Australian jails ...

Incarceration of Indigenous women spikes in past year  -  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women make up just 2 per cent of the population but more than a third of women in Australian jails ...

Abbott pushes recognition referendum out to 2017  - TONY Abbott will reveal this week that the long-promised referendum on acknowledging indigenous Australians in the Constitution will take place in ...

Media restructure needed says Dirty Politics author  - aimed at raising awareness of the phenomenon and power of right wing attack bloggers on New Zealand politics so that people will understand how ...

Too many fat people ? $3m to be spent on reducing obesity in Lower Hutt  - National Party candidate for Hutt South, Chris Bishop, welcomes the news that Hutt City Council has been selected to lead a $3 million anti-obesity initiative in Lower Hutt which will help families improve their health. “Healthy Families NZ is National’s new $40 million initiative which aims to improve people’s health where they live, learn, work and play in order to prevent obesity. It is a complete reform of the way we address the underlying causes of poor health,” says Mr Bishop.

Kiwi views reflect divided opinion over Scottish referendum  -  New Zealand Doctor found two doctors with Scottish ties in that very ... 16 or over can vote in the referendum, representing more than 4 million people .

$3m to develop rheumatic fever vaccine  - It says the rate of the disease per 100,000 people had been just over four; it is now almost five. The New Zealand Government's chief science adviser, ...

Eminem publishers sue New Zealand political party  - he music publishers for American rapper Eminem filed a lawsuit Tuesday against New Zealand's ruling political party over the music it used in a campaign commercial. Detroit-based Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated both claim the National Party breached copyright laws by using Eminem's song "Lose Yourself. Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/09/16/4351055/eminem-publishers-sue-new-zealand.html#storylink=cpy

Health professionals' joint call for action  - Without taking rapid and sufficient action itself, New Zealand cannot effectively press for ... A just transition to healthy people living in a healthy climate.

2100 people send message about dirty politics  - 2,100 people have signed their name to a full-page open letter featuring in the New Zealand Herald this Wednesday. The letter is designed to send a ...

500 migrants feared dead in 'worst shipwreck in years'  -  People disembark from a boat following rescue operations of immigrants off ... When they refused to cross over to the new boat, the furious traffickers ...

New Zealand's biggest asset is its people  - Whenever I'm back in New Zealand I see the neighbours who lend a helping hand, even when the local community is struggling.