Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Renewables can benefit Tassie's regions  - Researchers found risks posed by climate change to health , environmental assets, ... As a result, Australia's agricultural sector is showing signs of decreasing ... Regional communities are often poorly equipped to deal with health  ...

Fighting poverty ' key to global health  - "The challenge of global health is nested with our drive to fight poverty ," he told the Committee for Economic Development in Australia (CEDA).

Government policy and Indigenous incarceration rates  - The doubling of the prison population in less than two decades, the overcrowded prisons, the high reoffending lives, the outrageous incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, the horrific death toll in the first year post-release.

Lauren sees an opportunity  - Jaki Adams-Barton, manager of the Indigenous Australia Program at The Fred Hollows Foundation, said the initiative is key to filling the gap for ...

Boomers bond with patriotic passion  - Beneath the slight American twang in the voice of Patty Mills lies an impeccable Australian spirit. Mills, an indigenous Australian who has been plying ...

How same sex couples are getting married without leaving the country - While other countries around the world recognised same sex marriage, at this stage it is only the British consulate who will conduct them in Australia .

How One Novelist Is Fighting Gay Conversion Therapy in Ecuador  - In 2013, César L. Baquerizo's novel about the horrors of gay reparative therapy in his native Ecuador, Un Lugar Seguro Contigo ("a safe place with you"), was first published in Spanish. Otherwise known as "conversion therapy," gay reparative therapy is a slate of "psychological treatments" intended to convert patients from homosexual to heterosexual.

ACTU votes to support marriage equality and oppose plebiscite  - The Australian Council of Trade Unions' executive has passed a motion in favour of same-sex marriage, opposing a plebiscite and calling for Malcolm ...