Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

West Australians less likely to ask for help despite high suicide rates  - West Australians are only half as likely to use crisis support services as others across the nation, despite having one of the highest suicide rates in the ...

Diabetes: worse than we thought  - Researchers from Australia, the UK and the US found the prevalence of global diabetes has been seriously underestimated by at least 25%. In 2015, the official international estimate of the number of people with diabetes was 415 million, but the actual number may be as high as 520 million.

The politics of fear and anti-immigration sentiment  - FOR many Australians , the return of Pauline Hanson to Parliament is a .... They prefer an old Australia with Anglo-Saxon Christians, and some or many ...

Some nuns spent up to 40 years living in Australia before returning home to Ireland  - However, during the economic depression of the 1890s, great poverty hit all the Australia colonies and the people of the Diocese of Bathurst did not ...

Political deal-making could impact Australia's foreign aid budget  - We know from polling conducted prior to the election that ending poverty and increasing aid were influential on people's vote,” Tony Milne, campaign ...

Bill Shorten leaves door open to opposing same-sex marriage plebiscite  - Bill Shorten leaves door open to opposing same-sex marriage .... Do we really need in Australia to have a damaging plebiscite?".

Why 'The Secret Life Of Us' Meant So Much To A Generation Of LGBT Australians  - Growing up as a gay teenager I spent a lot of time searching for some way of seeing myself in the world. I used to sneak onto my family's computer to ...

Star Trek' Defends Gay Sulu: 'We Are All LGBT'  - I liked the approach,” he told Australia's Herald Sun, “which was not to make a big thing out it, which is where I hope we are going as a species, to not ...