Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Alice in Wonderland over her ancestry PEOPLE  - I live in Holland. My mum was adopted and her parents brought her here when she was nine. I’ve since met my beautiful family and saw my nana for the first time in Darwin last year. My amazing cousin, Jeff Lyons, showed me Darwin and brought me to all the family members.

Black Comedy star Nakkiah Lui on how humour is sparking fresh thinking on Indigenous issues  - As momentum grows for constitutional recognition for Australia's first peoples, a group of Aboriginal performers have taken a new approach to ...

With $1bn, blinding trachoma can be eliminated in four years – experts  - Achieving the goal would include eradicating trachoma in Australia , where it affects Indigenous communities in remote areas of the Northern Territory ...

Creating more than hope  - Hope does not resolve the constant state of powerlessness, forsakenness and oppression that many Indigenous Australians experience. Using hope ...

Conservatives love to hate political correctness, but the left should rail against it too  - By far the most insightful person on Australia's Q&A program this week was the ... I support same sex marriage, yet am deeply uncomfortable with the ...

Gay Western couple win Thai surrogacy battle for baby Carmen  - A gay couple from the United States won an appeal on ... including accusations in 2014 that an Australian couple had abandoned their ...

Increasing suicide rate in Australia highlights social crisis  - An Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report, Causes of Death Australia , 2014, released last month, revealed a sharply rising suicide rate over the ...

Studies Show Austerity Policies Exacerbate US Suicide Epidemic  - Another study, this time out of Australia , discovered a similar pattern in that country. It found that almost 35,000 extra suicides occurred when the ...