Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Better Mental Health Services for Māori -  The annual report for 2017 by the Office of the Director of Mental Health Services highlights real concerns regarding the increasing rates of restrictive practice (seclusion, restraint and the Mental Health Act) being used upon Māori by mental health services. Some mental health professionals may view ...

Maori leaders reject govt's foreign police plan -  Maori Community leaders are rejecting the idea of having foreign police officers recuited to work in their communities. Instead they are calling for more Maori liason officers to work alongside the...

Children the winners as National Standards are dumped - National introduced National Standards in 2010, to an outcry from unions. "The Treasury recommend that removal of Ngā Whanaketanga Rumaki Māori [national standards for Māori -language schools] and national standards be delayed until the new assessment framework is ready for implementation".

Minister not in favour of arming police - There hasn't been an increase in funding for police, a measurable increase in funding for police, over the last nine years, so I've seen the population to police ratio go from about 500 population to one officer up to 540," he says. Nash hopes the new recruitment video drive will help achieve the ambitious ...

A Labor Politician Is Urging Former Labor MP Gary Johns To Resign From His New Role - After spending years waging war on Australian charities, the government has appointed a trenchant critic of charities to oversee the sector," the petition says. ... That year Johns also penned a column in which he said the gap between Indigenous and non- Indigenous Australians "cannot close while ...

Indigenous body to help develop north Aust -  Aboriginal Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said a major proportion of Northern Australia was indigenous land, where more investment and jobs are needed. " Indigenous Australians must have a seat at the table and have the opportunity to pursue development that they want on their land if we are to realise ...

School history research uncovers time when Aboriginal students were excluded from Baryulgil - A former principal writing a 100-year history of a remote primary school has discovered a troubling chapter in its past. Baryulgil Public School on the New South Wales north coast was founded in 1917. It hit the national headlines when it was discovered asbestos tailings from a nearby mine had been ..

Jessica Mauboy to represent Australia at Eurovision 2018 - More than three million Australians watched the Eurovision semi-finals and grand final in 2017. In 2014, the singer performed her song Sea of Flags in front of the Australian and Aboriginal flags. It was the first time in Eurovision history that a non-European country had been asked to perform. But Mauboy ...

Scott focuses on gender balance - Coles managing director John Durkan announced last month that his business employed 3,373 indigenous staff, nationally. That equated to 3 per cent of all staff, which was representative of Australia's indigenous population. “We are a better company for it,” Mr Durkan said. “We think it's important to ...

Altered states: mining regulations in Queensland and across Australia - in the Northern Territory, more than 80% of the mineral value comes from Aboriginal lands. Approximately 30% of this is currently under exploration or under negotiation. Under the Land Rights Act, Aboriginal land owners have the right to agree or disagree to mining or exploratory activity ...

Indigenous artefacts brought to book - The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) has linked with the Vatican to launch a joint publication on that country's collection of Indigenous artefacts and materials. The publication, Australia : the Vatican Museum's Indigenous Collection, shows that the Vatican ...

Malcolm Turnbull grilled on refugees and indigenous rights - In his dismissal of the Uluru statement, he clearly showed no respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who participated in those significant dialogues.” Mr Turnbull told Ms Reid he was disappointed that she placed “so little store on the Aboriginal members of the Australian parliament” ...

'The grief is forever': WA mum speaks out on youth suicide - It comes as non-profit Youth Focus launched its summer fundraising drive on Sunday in a bid to help more young people with mental illnesses and those at risk of suicide . Suicide is the biggest killer of young Australians , with statistics showing 54 young people aged between 15 and 24 took their own ..

Holidays a high-risk time for youth suicide with children away from school, social routines - The long summer holiday is a high-risk time for youth suicide , when children are away from school and social routines, a Western Australian youth support organisation is warning. Youth Focus launched its summer awareness campaign on Sunday along with a fundraising drive to provide free ...

Perth Lesbian Couple Set To Become Australia's 1st Ever Same-Sex Divorcees - With same-sex marriage now the law of the land, queers Australia -wide are now gifted access to all of the various particulars that come with getting hitched, including of course the un-hitchening process that is divorce. Whilst we still don't know who will get to be the first same-sex couple to wed in this big ...

Seven gay couples register to marry in NSW - "Now, it will say that marriage in Australia is a union between two people," Ms Ianna said. Daniel Barnett, 39, and Daniel Gray-Barnett, 36, were the first same- sex couple to register their notice to marry in Sydney on Saturday. After falling in love seven years ago, and becoming engaged four years ago, ...

Australian field hockey players strip naked to fight homophobia in sport -  Australian field hockey players strip naked to fight homophobia in sport ... diversity and challenge discrimination in sport, LGBTQ-inclusive hockey club the Perth Pythons have created a naked calendar featuring some of Australia's ... Boy George joins us 30 years on from his first iconic Gay Times cover.

Same-sex divorce? Meet the couple about to call it quits - Meanwhile, Australia's Governor-General Peter Cosgrove officially signed a historic bill to legalize same-sex marriage on December 8. They could not access the country's divorce system because both of them were not residents of that country. The amendments passed through the Parliament last week ...

A nursery of unconventional ideas sex radicalism in Australia -  Same-sex marriage was barely on the political agenda in the early years of this century. What a difference a few years can make. But sometimes yesterday's radicalism can still disturb the peace today. William Chidley was Australia's most famous sex radical of a century ago. Chidley wandered the ...

Australian Couple Vowed To Divorce If Oz Legalized Gay Marriage, Now They've Changed Their ... - An Australian couple famously threatened to get divorced if the country legalized same-sex marriage. Now that Australia has, indeed, legalized same-sex marriage, however, the couple has announced a change of heart, News Corp Australia is reporting. Back in 2015, when the Land Down Under first ...