Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Does Australia have some of the highest rates per capita of fetal alcohol syndrome ...  - Data from the Lililwan project in the Fitzroy Valley of Western Australia show that 120 per 1000 children, or 12% examined by the multi-disciplinary team of health professionals had physical features and neurodevelopmental impairment consistent with FAS or partial FAS. In 127 of the pregnancies studied, 55% of the mothers drank during pregnancy.

Not Content With Wrecking The Environment, Greg Hunt Is Now Desecrating Sacred Sites  - In May next year the Australian public is scheduled to vote on whether our Constitution should be amended to recognise Indigenous Australians .

Aboriginal Australian Man Shares Racist Messages He Regularly Receives On Grindr  - The Yolngu is group of Aboriginal people who originally inhabited north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia . Because of his ...

71-Year- Old Man Becomes World's First HIV Patient With Alzheimer's  - A 71-year- old man became the first HIV patient with Alzheimer's disease, the researchers from Georgetown University have found. The study ...

Older and Casual Workers at Risk of Redundancies  - A new report has found that older Australians and casual workers of all ages have a higher likelihood of being laid-off, and struggling to find new jobs.

Breaking the poverty cycle, one snip at a time  - By doing five days of cutting in the Philippines we can really skill them well, and while we can't do that in Australia , we now know that we teach people ...

The new way to beat the market: Go LGBT  - The bank took 270 companies with openly LGBT staff as leaders or senior managers and compared their performance to a stock index tracking North America, Europe and Australia, because most of the LGBT companies Credit Suisse could identify were in one of these three regions.

Vision 2020 helps Kalamunda residents see the future   - It is the first survey of its kind to map the prevalence of vision impairment and blindness in both indigenous and non- indigenous Australians .