Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Push for early melanoma drug access - Anxious patients with advanced melanoma are pushing for temporary access to the drug Opdivo while awaiting long-term decisions. Drug-buying ...

Govt failing 'clear obligation' to children  - The debt that homeless parents, and other people in these emergency ... New Zealand was in breach of its obligations to have policy and legislation that was in ... "The New Zealand Government makes all sorts of promises on the ...

Housing top priority for Maori in Budget 2016  - Housing, Whānau Ora and kapa haka are some of the major issues Māori want addressed in the 2016 Budget. Parliament was full to the brim with iwi ...

First of homeless families arrive at Te Puea Marae  - A new support programme called Manaaki Tangata has been established by Te Puea Marae to provide relief, support, and comfort to those whanau ...

NZ soldiers now on front line  - A Maori won a prize for the best axemanship, a Canadian being second. Several officers, soldiers, and British war correspondents were present, also ...

West Papua : Police and Military Responsible for Human Rights Violations  - To resolve human rights cases in Papua , the biggest challenge for the ... internally, because many people from the police and the military now serve ...

West Papuans , activists protest against Sorong oil palm expansion  - 

Kura hourua experiment overhyped  - Greens co-leader Metiria Turei says kura hourua are an experiment on Maori children that needs to end. The Greens are backing a Labour MP's bill to ...

Maori in the dairy workforce  -  Maori make up less than nine per cent of the dairy workforce and leave the industry earlier than other groups, DairyNZ research shows. The figures ...

Freedom to have an abortion is no liberty at all  - Reproductive Choice Australia co-president Jenny Eljack wants abortion treated as a health issue rather than a criminal issue. Whose health are we ...

It's OK to let your baby cry himself to sleep, study finds  - Researchers in Australia worked with 43 sets of parents who had babies ... They suspect this is because babies' sleep health improves naturally as ...

Call for candidates to address nation's rising suicide rate  - The big central towns in Queensland, those areas in South Australia that are really changing, those areas of Western Australia where the mining ...

NT senator Nova Peris a frontrunner for AFL's top Indigenous job  - It is understood the Olympian and first Aboriginal woman in federal ... Senator Peris became Australia's first female indigenous federal politician in ...

Woman says she suffered 'racist' treatment by parliament security guards who demanded she turn ...  - An Indigenous woman said she 'felt like dirt' after a security guard at ... with racism from our institutions in this country,' she told Daily Mail Australia .

Over half of Australian migrants support same-sex marriage: poll  - Mr Lewis says while the 54 per cent figure is lower than Australia's overall support, it doesn't suggest that same-sex marriage is a more conservative ...

Christianity Must Exorcise Itself of Homophobia - When Australia's most successful Olympian, Ian Thorpe, came out as gay in an interview with Sir Michael Parkinson in July 2014, he was inundated ...

Gay men receive apology more than 30 years after homosexuality decriminalised  - Human Rights Law Centre director of advocacy Anna Brown said there were young gay and lesbian people around Australia struggling with their ...

Suicide the tragic issue missing from Australia's national agenda  -  Indigenous Australians are particularly at risk; they have suicide rates double those of non- Indigenous people. In some areas, the rates are far higher ...

Adam Goodes racism row spurred Sydney Swans leader Dane Rampe to act on Indigenous issues  - Our game, and sport generally, will continue to lead the way in having discussions about race and the role of Indigenous Australians in our community ...

The Life and Myths of Ann Snell  - Growing up, Ann Snell heard a lot about Indigenous life and culture, particularly around the dinner table. Her father, an architect, was interested in simplifying living to complement the human condition (which he referred to as "treading lightly on the earth"). So when