Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Domestic violence issue goes to heart of who we are  - In Australia , about one in three women has experienced physical violence ... self-esteem, mental health, job losses or addictions, just to name a few.

No, Goldie Taylor, Gun Control Won't Reduce Suicide  - Wright first takes us to Australia , where there seems to be a relationship between its buy-back gun program and a drop in the suicide rate. But “the ...

Why do we keep going back to the bush?  - The Australian landscape is haunted by the violence of the frontier wars, bloodstained and unforgiving. But while the Gothic continues to be a dominant motif in Australian art, it was once rivalled by colonial myths in which the land was conquered and bent to the will of the invader.

Possum skin cloaks and bush medicine explained in Aboriginal seasonal calendar app  - For tens of thousands of years, Australia's Indigenous people have lived by the seasons: hunting, gathering, healing and surviving the elements based ...

Gay pageant on its way  - Deer Park nurse J.O. Rojas (pictured), the reigning Miss Transsexual Australia , said the event's aim was to raise awareness of issues facing the gay  ...

Operation Boomerang' lamb ad insults Indigenous people , say critics  - The Australia Day-themed lamb commercial starring Lee Lin Chin has ... what is considered a day of anger and mourning for many Indigenous people .

David Bowie's New Zealand connections  -  The day after arriving in New Zealand , Bowie visited Porirua – where 3000 people were waiting on Takapuwahia Marae to catch a glimpse of him.

Boaties getting the lifejacket message  - New research from Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) shows 78 percent of the ... "Most of the people who are dying out there are older males who have ...