Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Impacts of climate change to farms undermining Wheatbelt farmers' mental health  - Researchers from the Murdoch University surveyed 22 farmers from the Wheatbelt town of Newdegate, south east of Perth over the course of the 2013-14 agricultural season. The study, Farmers’ sense of place and mental well-being in an era of rapid climate change: a case study in the Western Australian Wheatbelt revealed that the negative impacts of climate change had a negative impact to their mental health.

Canberra toddler, one of Australia's youngest organ donors, remembered as 'amazing' little girl  - As far as I'm aware there are only about 50 children in the whole world that have been diagnosed with this particular chromosome deletion.

Victorian Coroner puts quit-smoking drug under spotlight  - Last year, the Queensland coroner reopened an investigation into the death of a 22-year-old Brisbane man who committed suicide  ...

You'll NEVER guess what's hidden beneath these hills in the Australian Outback  - The town lies in the state of South Australia , in the south-east of a desert that is ... It was given its name by the indigenous Australians , when white men ...

Mapping Indigenous identity  - In 2010 ACU became one of the first universities in Australia to introduce Indigenous staff research scholarships to facilitate valued Indigenous  ...

Mandatory sentencing leads to unjust, unfair outcomes – it doesn't make us safe  - At a Law Council of Australia symposium on Indigenous imprisonment in 2015, lawyers and judges called for the abolition of mandatory sentences.

People power: 10 online petitions that changed Australia in 2015  - "Decision makers are increasingly seeing that clicktivism and online people power can't be ignored. These are real people, they are constituents and they really care about these issues," Change.org founder Nathan Elvery​ said.

Alcohol and domestic violence : a national blind spot  - For many years, even though it was a huge problem, Australia managed to ignore the epidemic of domestic violence . But since Rosie Batty was ...