Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

WA Attorney General plans to expunge historical homosexual convictions - Many of June Lowe's friends have a criminal record, just because they had homosexual sex before it was decriminalised in Western Australia in 1989.

Legalise nicotine vaping as a harm reduction solution for tobacco smoking - Yet paradoxically, Australia's health bodies have failed to catch up with the times and nicotine solutions for vaping are still listed under Schedule 7 of ...

How Malaysia allows child abuse to go unpunished - Malaysia child abuse, child abuse laws, Malaysia criminal justice system, .... Australian detectives who investigate paedophiles in the region believe ...

All preschoolers to learn foreign languages - The Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) Polyglots apps help ... their child using foreign words at home which they had learnt at preschool.

Games shame for all the world to see - Specifically, Australia's Constitution, written in 1901, does not recognise the 50,000-plus years of history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

High Indigenous cancer rates prompt new approach to close the gap - Alarming statistics showing Indigenous Australians are 30 per cent more likely to die from cancer than other Australians and 65 per cent more likely if ...

Mixed report on Australia's sexual health - Chlamydia is on the rise and the HIV infection rate among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is at an all-time high but remains stable for ...

Worawa College empowering young Aboriginal women with skills and confidence - Community and Society: Indigenous ( Aboriginal and Torres Strait .... As young Aboriginal women in modern-day Australia , these girls occupy a ...