Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Western Australia is Now Criminalising Revenge Porn, Too - Following the lead of Victoria and, most recently, New South Wales, the Western Australian government will next week introduce new family violence  ...

Shorten's call 'insults Aussie people': PM - Mr Turnbull today said the government had faith in Australians to mount a civil plebiscite on same-sex marriage and make the right decision.

Australia's Indigenous Peoples Fight for Constitutional Recognition - Indigenous Australians, namely aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, are made up of diverse and distinct communities, nations, cultures and languages. Both peoples are citizens of Australia, but they often seek acknowledgement on the part of non-indigenous society that they are also citizens of their own distinct societies with their own systems of law. There has never been a treaty signed between the Australian government and the aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples, and calls for a treaty remain one of the principal planks of indigenous politics in

Calls for better, culturally appropriate health services - But multicultural and indigenous communities are calling for health services to be better tailored to improve the lives of Australians from diverse ...

Aboriginal Infectious Diseases Research - The Australian Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses is a five year funded NHMRC study working in urban regional and remote communities bringing together a multi-disciplinary team of Australia’s leading experts in STI and BBV research, experienced clinicians and community based practitioners who have an interest in innovative and practice relevant research, translation and capacity development within

Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ... - Yet, at the population level, Indigenous people at the age of 40 have rates of vision loss three times that of non-Indigenous Australians. Rates of blindness are six times higher among Indigenous adults.

What Living On The Poverty Line Looks Like - Fast forward 10 years and I became a single Mum on a wage well below the poverty line in one of the most expensive cities in Australia . I didn't have ...

Vote on same-sex marriage in Australia likely to be blocked - "This will be the 22nd marriage equality bill in Australia and we still haven't got ( LGBT ) marriage and at a certain point we have to think, what are we ...