Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Men best at talking men out of domestic violence  - No one is better at convincing a man to end domestic violence than a fellow man, according to an Australian expert. “Research shows that men listen ...

Family violence driving youth homelessness: service providers  - As Australia marks Youth Homelessness Matters Day, service providers hope ... were often seen as 'peripheral or incidental' victims of family violence .

A very simple lesson  - in what Indigenous people want. Australians are, in the main, not interested in revisiting the date of Australia Day, for much the same reasons.

A child custody battle gone horribly wrong  - Only the hardest of the hard-hearted could fail to be moved by what happened to Sally Faulkner last May. After agreeing to allow her two young children, aged four and six, to travel to Beirut to holiday with their father, she was told by him, via Skype, that they were not coming home. Ms Faulkner had separated

Deaths in custody: Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up  - Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who ...

Number of Koori students graduating from Victorian high schools rises  - But the Koori student from St Patrick's College in Ballarat pushed on – and last year became the first person in his family to complete high school.

We are the forgotten people': the anguish of Australia's 'invisible' asylum seekers  - Nearly 29,000 asylum seekers are in Australia on temporary 'bridging visas'. ... remain locked in desperate poverty and with no idea what their futures hold. .... For all of the heat and light over Australia's immigration policies, BVE ...

Minister pledges rush to boost aid for youth  - The West Australian reported yesterday that eight young people from ... In response to calls for more suicide prevention resources, Ms Mitchell said ...