Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Leadership Programme for Maori in Public Health  - If you know people that are interested, I would suggest sending in this email and get them to complete enrollment form as soon as you can as the ...

Maori broadcasting & the year of living dangerously  - Well. spare a thought for one of those functions that will be held this week; the break-up, in more than one way, of the Maori and Pacific programmes ...

Maori men need to take more responsibility for violence problem  - About half New Zealand's prison population is Maori , although Maori make up just 15 percent of the population . High imprisonment rates for Maori are ...

Robbie Manson gets two huge wins after coming out, feels he's doing it to inspire others  -  New Zealand Olympic rower Robbie Manson came out earlier this year. His two huge wins on the water over the weekend were in part to inspire LGBT  ...

Sydney archbishop: Despite reports, no link between celibacy, abuse   - Fisher also pointed to Australian government statistics showing 5,800 substantiated reports of child sexual abuse in 2011-12 alone. By contrast, the ...

What to tell your children about the Sydney siege  - Queensland psychiatrist Dr Chris Cantor has told 612 ABC Brisbane that parents should be honest with their children about the event. Two hostages and the gunman at the centre of a 16-hour siege at a cafe in Sydney's CBD were shot dead. Police stormed the building after explosions and yelling were heard from inside the Martin Place Lindt cafe about 2:10am (AEDT).

Green groups, Northern Land Council protest water allocations ahead of Supreme Court appeal   - Northern Territory green groups and Australia's largest Aboriginal land council have held a joint protest outside the NT Supreme Court over ...

Alcohol: plain packaging's next casualty  - In fact, Australia's imposition of plain packaging on tobacco opened a ... of the adverse health consequences associated with alcohol consumption.

Internet banking proving difficult for some elderly and disabled people  - The University of Queensland is researching the problem, to find out what regulation and supports could help to stop older and disabled Australians  ...

Christmas comfort for the aged this season  - Isolation and loneliness is the reality of many older people all year round too, not just at Christmas, with hundreds of older people in Australia living ...

Cheap in the deep sense: the sorry business of Indigenous affairs  -  AO Neville, the chief protector of Aborigines in Western Australia and a ... people who, at that stage, were still the majority Indigenous population.

Number of babies born in Australia increases for first time in five years: birth rate report  - There has been an increase in the number of babies born in Australia for ... Indigenous mothers tended to be an average of five years younger than ...

Closing the health gap is a non-negotiable issue   - For Mick Gooda, achieving health equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians within a generation is not a mere possibility - it is a ...

Bureaucratic hold-ups for outback rehabilitation centre   - Funding for an Indigenous drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit in the South Australian outback could run out before the centre even ...

Cheap in the deep sense: the sorry business of Indigenous affairs   - Cheap in the deep sense: the sorry business of Indigenous affairs ... AO Neville, the chief protector of Aborigines in Western Australia and a leading ...

Hero Australian Hostage Remembered by his Longterm Partner, Coworkers, and the LGBT ...   - The Lindt Chocolate Cafe manger, Tori Johnson, who died attempting to rip the gun out of “lone wolf” terrorist Man Haron Monis is being rememberd ...

Fifty shades of a growling good time  - ONE of Australia's biggest gay bear festivals returns to Sydney in February, with organisers looking to shine the spotlight on the diversity of the ...

Aussie couple first to wed under Scotland's new marriage equality law  - Douglas Pretsell, a Scottish resident from Melbourne, and his Australian husband, Peter Gloster, converted their civil partnership into a marriage in the ...

Catherine Delahunty: Maori representation no threat to open democracy   - Catherine Delahunty says that our current Prime Minister has recently demonstrated a backwards-looking and naive grasp of New Zealand's history.

Native Americans inspired to treasure culture  - First Nations people in the United States have told a Maori woman working for a native American entity that they are using Maori culture to help them ...