Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Australia debates banning mobile phones in class -  Australia is debating the role of mobile phones in its schools after the country's education minister called for phones to be locked away during class time. After a 14-year-old student commit suicide because of cyberbullying, Education Minister Simon Birmingham told local media that “there's almost no ...

Nudity Campaign Aims To Strip Away Stigma Of Depression Among Farmers - Depression among farmers is not just a growing issue in Australia and New Zealand. According to statistics in The Guardian, one farmer in Australia dies by suicide every four days, and in the UK, one farmer a week commits suicide on average. In a number of states in the U.S., the suicide rate among ...

Australians support universal health care, so why not a universal basic income? -  Professor Henderson's work led to what is now widely referred to as the , which measures the extent of poverty in Australia in terms of the income of families and individuals relative to their essential living costs; and he advocated a guaranteed minimum income scheme for Australia , similar to a universal ...

Advocates call for case studies of discrimination in private schools - Advocates for WA's LGBTI community have called for more people to come forward and provide case studies of discrimination within private and religious schools. Under Western Australian law, LGBTI teachers and staff can be sacked, students can be expelled and enrolments from same-sex families ...

Cher Says She's Ready To Celebrate At Mardi Gras 2018 - Less than three weeks ahead of her arrival in Australia , the legendary singer has filmed a video message to tell Australian fans she's also thrilled with the result of Australia's marriage ... the singer said in the video, posted to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras' social media accounts overnight.

Marriage equality campaign seeks abolition of religious rights to discriminate - The submissions follow a call from Christian Schools Australia and Adventist Schools Australia for schools to retain the ability to hire and fire ... said that Christians should “have no fear” about providing services to same-sex weddings because it was possible to do so “without condoning the wedding”.

Yes' victors seek abolition of all church exemptions to anti-discrimination laws - Churches currently enjoy the right to hire and fire on the basis of gender and sexuality, in line with their religious teaching, as a Western Australian school did with a gay relief teacher in October last year. But the Equality Campaign - joined by a prominent group of NSW politicians - wants those rights ...

All evidence shows that children of gay parents do just as well as their peers - Scientists looked into more than three decades worth of peer-reviewed research into how the children in same-sex -parented families did in comparison to their peers from opposite-sex-parented families. The wide-ranging study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia in October 2017, found what ...

Update on humanitarian situation of refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island - our latest mission to Manus Island ( Papua New Guinea). What stood out the most from this mission at the time we were there, was a pervasive and worsening sense of despair among refugees and asylum seekers. I observed and people shared with us that many are staying in the rooms, not going out, ...

Te Reo Maori Ka Rere: "Talknology" - This opinion piece aims to grow awareness of a range of technological initiatives that are supporting Maori language regeneration. These initiatives have been chosen because they have communities of users. This piece could be useful to educators who want to learn about the options that are available ...

Latest ASH survey shows youth smoking is at an all time low - Broughton said: 'Young Māori have always been seen as rangatira mō āpōpō (leaders for tomorrow), this is especially so as we move towards a smoke-free 2025. Our pakeke (parents) are crucial role models. Year in, year out, young people have demonstrated via this research that they get it. It's now ...

Charter schools lag mainstream on Maori achievement - Save Our Schools says Maori achievement has been increasing steadily for many years, with .66.5 percent of Maori students who left school in 2016 having at least NCEA Level 2 or higher, compared to a 45.7 percent in 2009. In contrast, only 59.7 percent of charter school leavers in 2016 had NCEA ...

Charter schools lag mainstream on Maori achievement -  Lobby group Save Our Schools is questioning ACT leader David Seymour's commitment to Maori achievement as his justification for retaining charter schools. Mr Seymour yesterday released a list of questions he said should be asked of Labour's Maori MPs, including asking whether they would put ...

How to prepare the delicious – but poisonous – karaka berry - Not only is the karaka tree grand in appearance among the treasures of Tane but it has many uses. Sturdy, sacred and healing the karaka tree produces large orange, sweetly aromatic, oval berries that were a good source of carbohydrates (60%) and protein (10%) for Māori in the lean winter months.

Why New Zealand has so many gang members - Bikers like the Hells Angels and posses from Australia are among its 25 recognised groups, but two Maori crews dominate: Black Power and the Mongrel Mob. They are remarkable for their subcultures as much as for their size. Members signal their allegiance by sewing patches onto leather jackets or ...

Rotorua's 'hidden homeless' population causes concern - At the moment landlords can afford to be choosy and if people make any mistakes, have a bad credit rating, they are being written off." The Government's report showed home ownership had slumped dramatically since the 1980s - especially among Pacific and Maori people. Rotorua Lakes Council Te ...

Bullying link to youth suicide focus of radical Australian Bureau of Statistics project - There are about 3000 suicides in Australia each year with about 800 of those people under aged 25. The ABS's director of health and vital statistics section, James Eynstone-Hinkins, told the prevention of youth suicide in NSW parliamentary inquiry yesterday he believes the new data will be “very useful” ...

Australia's jails a national disgrace -  Australia's states and territories are building more and more prisons, trying to outdo each other on law and order. Crime rates across Australia are falling , but incarceration rates have never been higher. So are the costs of locking up so many people. Australianj ails are becoming increasingly ...

Unity, not separatism, is the path to reconciliation - Howson also observed sagely that “the reconciliation some presently pursue has become a weapon to wield against the traditional concept of Australia ”. Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic. As a volunteer for a remote Aboriginal community in the Kimberley I was asked to compare their ABS statistics for 2006 ...

Tech doesn't just have a woman problem - Briana Epler says the lack of representation of indigenous people is a particular issue for the Australian tech sector. "In the last couple of years, people have been talking a lot more about gender and in the last couple of months a lot more about indigenous people," she says. "It seems to be moving in a ...