Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Reports finds Australia's health system fails some communities year after year  - It's been well documented that remote and Indigenous areas have some of the highest rates of preventable health problems.

Indigenous suicide is a humanitarian crisis. We need a royal commission  - 5.2% of Indigenous Australian lives are lost to suicide but as yet, there is no Indigenous organisation driving policy to combat this devastating problem. I estimate that there are between 10,000 to 15,000 same sex attracted Indigenous Australians. Same sex attracted people in Australia are up to 14 times more likely to die by suicide

Linda Burney says question should come first in Indigenous referendum  - The minister has overseen unprecedented cuts to Aboriginal legal services, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and seen funding for ...

Calls for graveyard fees to be dropped for struggling Aboriginal families  - Wally Stewart, funeral director from Dream Time Funerals in Narooma said in one case, a deceased member of the south coast Indigenous community ...

NT 'dismissive' of jailed indigenous youth  -  Professor George Newhouse, principal solicitor at the National Justice ... The NT has the highest rate of youth detention in Australia , and 95 per cent of ...

Youth suicide rate demands urgent action ACT conference told  - Suicide is the leading cause of death for Australian five to 17-year-olds with one child a week taking their own lives Ms Mitchell told the 2016 National  ...

Teaching phonics skills alongside reading raises literacy achievement among Indigenous children  - This is the latest finding from the 2016 Productivity Commission report on Indigenous primary school achievement. It reveals that Indigenous children are still greatly disadvantaged in numeracy and literacy skills.

Hewitt breaks silence on violence  - It also gave him a chance to evaluate his work for Maori anti-violence group E Tu Whanau and to confront his father about the beatings he received as ...