Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Sports organisations sign on to reduce homophobia in Aussie sport   - A number of Australia's largest sporting codes have signed on to a new initiative aimed at reducing homophobia and transphobia in Australian sport.

Gayby Baby' Documentary About Kids of Gay Parents Gets Theatrical, Digital Release  - Supergravity Pictures has acquired rights to award-winning Australian documentary “Gayby Baby,” a film about children of gay parents, which will ...

Free program educating on elder abuse  -  Senator Brandis said that the “ Australian Government is taking significant steps to put the rights of older Australians on the national agenda.

Labor to focus on growing inequality  - According to the Australian Council of Social Service, the people most likely to be living in poverty in Australia today are those who are unemployed ...

Rise in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth seeking headspace mental health services  -  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth are more likely to seek help for their mental and physical wellbeing in north Queensland than anywhere ...

Aboriginal patients self-discharge from hospital at rates 10 times higher than non- Indigenous ...  - Western Australia's Director General of Health David Russell-Weisz revealed the new figures at an Aboriginal health conference in Perth today.

Locking up Indigenous kids costs $236 million a year  - Locking up Aboriginal children costs Australia almost a quarter of a billion dollars a year, according to new figures compiled by Save the Children and ...

Medical students look to the future of rural and remote health in Australia  - The recruitment of more Indigenous doctors and medical professionals is a big challenge facing regional health, students from Australia's rural ...