Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

What was life in Australia like before European settlement? - The National Library of Australia recently released a book called Living with the Locals – Early Europeans’ Experience of Indigenous Life. Authors John Maynard & Victoria Haskins present nine stories relating to a total thirteen people who escaped penal servitude or survived shipwreck. With at least one notable exception (and more on that anon), they experienced the hospitality of Indigenous people, often being accepted as part of their families. Each story is written in two parts, the overall background followed by a number of pages providing summary and more detailed information on Indigenous life. The level of research and understanding removes much of the ambiguity that previously existed.

Finding the next Indigenous football star! - Compared to other codes football is lagging. Indigenous people make up two and a half per cent of the total Australian population, but in the AFL they make up nine percent of the playing list while the NRL boast’s even higher figures with 12 percent. During the 2015/16 A-League season one time Socceroo and current Brisbane Roar Defender Jade North, was the only Indigenous representative in Australia's top flight. 

Maria Lutz gassed to death inside Sydney home with autistic children was part of ... - A family friend said the mother-of-two who was gassed to death inside her home with her husband and their autistic children would have known of the ...

More Indigenous Doctors Aim To Close Australia's Health Gap -  Vinka Barunga was born in the Worrara tribe of the Mowanjum Aboriginal community in the remote town of Derby in Western Australia. As a child, she witnessed disease and suicide amongst her people, which made her resolve to one day become a doctor and help break this cycle of suffering. She is one of six, the largest cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) students, to graduate in Medicine/Surgery from the University of Western Australia this year.

The Surprising Reason Cardiac Deaths Spike Around The Holidays - The researchers found that the kiwis, too, suffer from a yuletide spike in cardiac death . The study reviews New Zealand mortality data on over 700,000 ...

The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016 - There aren’t many people, let alone teenagers, who can say they changed banking history. But Kaelin Farnish, 17, did just that after contacting BuzzFeed News to explain that they could not open a bank account because they did not identify as male or female – and every British bank demands customers tick one of two gender boxes. Being nonbinary, Farnish felt alienated by what is, for most people, a mundane administrative process. So they spoke out. When the story broke, internet trolls subjected Farnish to abuse merely for saying that banks should recognise that not everyone is male or female, and that gender is a spectrum. But it wasn’t just trolls who saw the story. An employee of Metro Bank – Britain’s newest high street bank – saw the article and showed it to senior executives. Five months later, Metro made an announcement: It was to become the first bank in history to welcome nonbinary customers, by adding a “nonbina

Clinical trials for inject-able PrEP treatment start - People's ability to stick to a treatment regime was one of the areas of concern raised by Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee ...

Can You Travel to Australia With Medical Cannabis? - If you live in one of the 28 American states that have legalized medical cannabis and are planning a trip Down Under to celebrate, you might be ...