Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Our outback angels are on their own - It also found that some nurses were being bullied by colleagues into ignoring safety guidelines. Ms Woodford died in South Australia’s Far North in March 2016. Dudley David Davey, 35, of Mimili, has yet to plead to one count of murder. A survey of remote area health workers found only 55 per cent believed their service had a policy to ensure staff were accompanied on call-outs. One quarter said they lived in unsafe accommodation, including houses that lacked working locks and security screens.

Aboriginal Murder Mystery: What Killed Kaakutja? - When William Bates, an elder of the Baakantji people of New South Wales, found a skeleton by a river in 2014, he identified it as an Aboriginal male. The mouth was wide open. “To me, he was crying for help,” Bates recalls, “so I said, I’ll help you.” The bones bore obvious signs of violence. In most murder mysteries, establishing the time of death is one of the first things detectives do, and in the course of an initial study, researchers assumed he had been killed during the bloodshed between British colonisers and Australia’s indigenous peoples in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Celebrating the songs of Australia's civil rights movement - Fifty years ago this May, Australians went to the polls and in overwhelming numbers, voted Yes to remove two discriminatory references in the constitution. The changes allowed the federal government make laws affecting Aboriginal people and include the count of “aboriginal natives” in the Census. The Sydney Festival’s commemorative concert promised a re-interpretation of the “greatest songs of the civil rights movement” from Indigenous artists including Dan Sultan, Thelma Plum, Radical Son, Leah Flanagan, Emily Wurramara, Yirrmal Marika, Alice Skye as well as former Magic Dirt singer Adalita. What was delivered was far broader in scope.

You can't go forward always looking back' - ELDER Robert Isaacs has warned fellow indigenous Australians they were damaging their people and causing division by opposing Australia Day.

Growing up gay and Asian in rural Australia - There wasn’t anyone in his family, school or friendship circle who was part of the LGBTQIA+ community. “I didn’t know anyone who was openly out, especially in Wangaratta,” he remembers. “The only Asian person that I took notice of in the media, when I was growing up, was Jackie Chan.” It’s true; Screen Australia found that, in 2015, only 7% of main characters in Australian television were of Asian, African or Middle Eastern descent, despite accounting for 17% of the Australian population—And that’s not even considering a gay character.

Counsellor Claims Gay Parents More Likely To Abuse Kids - Cheryl Parrott, a counsellor at Rich Relationships Counselling in Sydney, Australia , implied same-sex relationships could be unsafe for children, ...

Civil Celebrants Clash Over Marriage Equality Exemption - The submissions were made to the Senate committee considering religious and conscientious exemptions to marrying same-sex couples in Australia , ...

Could quitting smoking be dangerous for your health? - As part of the investigation the coroner undertook a review of all suicides in Australia where the person had taken Champix. Four days after Timothy ...

Why the Australia Day lamb ad gets my goat - Blind Freddy knows that the politically correct mob are out to destroy Australia Day. Indigenous activists (as opposed to normal, everyday indigenous  ...

New Federal Industry Minister Arthur Sinodinos confident manufacturing has a strong future in ... - West Australian MP Ken Wyatt will become the first Indigenous Australian to serve in the federal ministry. He will be sworn in as Minister for Aged Care ...

Ken Wyatt's supporters say he could be next Indigenous affairs minister -  West Australian Indigenous MP Ken Wyatt's supporters have welcomed his new ministry but say he would be well qualified to become the Federal ...

Testing time ahead for new minister -  the appointment of Australia's first indigenous federal minister, Ken Wyatt, ... “Medicare is the fundamental underpinning of Australia's health system.

Bisexual student: Sex ed classes left me believing lesbian sex wasn't 'real' -  LGBTI students are at even more of a risk than their straight counterparts. Why? Because they're barely educated about the protection that is there for ...

Parents in India seek 'corrective rape' for son after finding out he is gay - Humsafar Trust is one of the oldest and most respected LGBTI advocacy organizations in India. Roy said Sanjoy's family took him to a doctor for ...

Aboriginal LGBTI community to lead Melbourne's pride march for the first time - Aboriginal leaders and elders will march to highlight the faces and voices often forgotten in Australia's dialogue around LGBTI identities.

LGBTI student storytelling network launches - The co-creator's of GrammarPride, a platform for LGBTI past and present pupils of Auckland Grammar School, are now taking their concept nationwide ...

City Mission agrees with Sir Bob Jones on beggars - The other 45 per cent were Pasifika and non-Maori. ... cent to 27 per cent of the Maori population were part of a group in precarious work and housing, ...

Ancient sounds get campus airing - The University of Waikato is this year offering two courses in traditional Maori musical instruments to be taught by taonga puoro composer and ...

Maungaharuru Tangitū generous gift to nation - Today Maungaharuru Tangitū Trust in northern Hawkes Bay gifted back four reserves to New Zealand . Reserves that were illegally confiscated by the ...

Maori Maps rewritten for phones -  Developing a sense of identity is vital to the well-being of young Maori today, and can help with the many challenges they face in urban New Zealand  ...