Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Canberrans unhappier, more stressed and less positive about the future than other Australians - The concerns participants had to choose from were coping with stress, school or study problems, body image, depression, family conflict, bullying or emotional abuse, personal safety, discrimination, suicide, drugs, alcohol and gambling.

Everywhere I go I have seen the effects of violence , the shame and the stigma, it's haunting ... - Everywhere I go I have seen the effects of violence , the shame and the ... Such encounters, says Australia's outgoing ambassador for women and girls ...

Remote work-for-the-dole scheme 'devastating Indigenous communities' - The rental arrears across the whole lands, across 12 communities, have gone up from $50,000 to $350,000, in the short space of time since CDP's been introduced," she said.

A call to action to prevent Rheumatic Heart Disease in Indigenous Australia - The AMA is calling on all Australian governments and other stakeholders to work together to eradicate Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in Indigenous  ...

Practice area demand driving collaboration among law firms - It remains the case in Australia that Indigenous people are badly served by the legal system. In Victoria, 26 per cent of the prison population is ...

A new generation serves souls in Sydney - Keesee and his wife, Carley, live about 35 minutes away in the suburb of Ambarvale, where they serve as missionary apprentices with the SouthWest Church of Christ. They’ve brought a visitor from the U.S. to see the famous opera house and — after fighting off seagulls intent on stealing their fish and chips — spy a woman peering under the steps as her toddler watches from a stroller.

To Australia's shame, some of our towns and communities have 600 times the national suicide rate - The Inuit peoples of Greenland, the Guarani peoples of South America and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples of the Australian  ...

Who owns a plant? - With more and more people relishing in the flora that has nourished Indigenous Australians for more than 50,000 years, John Newtown asks who ...