Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

There's no good reason for a sugar tax in New Zealand - If people flip from chocolate bars to crisps, are they really that much healthier? Unsurprisingly, in the real world, sugar taxes have not done much to improve health. But don't just take my word for it. The Ministry of Health commissioned the NZIER ( New Zealand Institute of Economic Research) to review ...

Indigenous identification change between 2011 and 2016: evidence from the Australian Census ... - Growth in the Indigenous population between the 2011 and 2016 Censuses was much faster than would be predicted by our best estimates of fertility and mortality. Part of this faster than projected growth came from a larger number of people who identified as Indigenous in 2016 but not in 2011, ...

White adoptions won't create new Stolen Generation - This would not only safely reconcile culture and identity with child welfare — and avoid any question of a repeat of the Stolen Generations, it would also end Australia's 'apartheid' child protection regime that treats indigenous children differently based on race. Jeremy Sammut is a Senior Research ...

Push to close gap on kids in care - The peak body representing Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has called for a 10-year revamp of the troubled Closing the Gap ... The goals would seek to “eliminate the over-representation” of indigenous children in out-of-home care by 2040 and “address the underlying causes of ...

Warning on sexually transmitted diseases ignored - When contacted yesterday about the letter, Senator Scullion shifted blame for the government's inaction to Indigenous Health Minister Ken Wyatt. Senator Scullion's spokesman told The Australian he passed Senator Smith's letter on to the “health portfolio”. The letter, addressed to Senator Scullion and ...

National Gallery of Victoria launches Colony exhibition - There was a time when no one would have thought twice about staging a colonial art exhibition at an Australian state gallery. Colonial art does, after all, form a ... There are 640 works in this section, with historic indigenous works, both identified and unknown, woven throughout. The second part features ...

Indigenous protesters have been 'gearing up' for Gold Coast Commonwealth Games for years - Brisbane Aboriginal -Sovereign Embassy leader Wayne Wharton told the Bulletin the exact location of the protest camp would be made public closer to the date. He said up to 5000 to 6000 people from throughout Australia and overseas were expected to converge on the Coast to protest during the ...

Indigenous dying more of cancer: report - A report on cancer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on Thursday, shows between ... The report has prompted a call from Cancer Council Australia for indigenous leaders to talk more about cancer within Aboriginal communities, ...

Climate Change May Have Helped Spread a Language Family Across Australia - On the map of Australia's indigenous language types, Pama-Nyungan languages stretch expansively across the country, dipping down into the hollows of Western Australia and Victoria, and reaching high up into the furthest cranny of Queensland, to the north-east. In the remaining 10 percent of the ...

Britain First banned from Facebook in crackdown against far-right hate-speech - The company added: "Many different groups including representatives from the Jewish, Muslim, and LGBT communities, have reached out to us in the past to help us understand the threatening nature of content. "This requires us to make difficult decisions and balance concerns about free expression ...

Most Australian Indigenous languages came from just one place, research claims - The researchers used an adapted computer model originally designed to map the spread of viruses, and built a family tree of “cognates” – identical or similar words across multiple languages . Pama-Nyungan is one of 28 Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander language families. In contrast, Europe had four ...

Ask Izzy website figures show food is the top search for people in need - ACCESSING food has become a top concern for struggling Australians and it isn't confined to people who are homeless or in extreme poverty , ... legal, medical, employment and counselling support, and was developed by Infoxchange in partnership with Google, REA Group and News Corp Australia .

How one nun's lifelong service changed Australia's Tiwi community - Love them in their poverty , love them in their beauty, love them in their cultural ways, love them.” In an interview with CNA, Gardiner said this mandate of love was the advice given to her by Bishop Francis Xavier Gsill M.S.C. when she was asked to move to Bathurst Island of Australia's Tiwi islands in ...

Getting back to nature! Tim Dormer and his boyfriend Ash Toweel bare all as they enjoy a romantic ... - They are set to tie the knot after same-sex marriage was made legal in Australia last year. And loved-up Tim Dormer and Ash Toweel are enjoying a romantic getaway ahead of their self-described 'big gay wedding'. The happy couple are spending time at the River Island Nature Retreat in NSW this ...

The fake gay Christian with seven kids who avoided deportation anyway - A heterosexual Muslim man who appealed deportation by lying about being a gay Christian has won the right to the stay in Australia . That's the latest bizarre tale to emerge from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, which found that the Iraqi man was lying, but still decided to overturn Immigration Minister ...

Same-sex couples can now adopt anywhere in Australia as final territory changes law - Finally, same-sex couples can adopt children anywhere in Australia . The Northern Territory (NT) just became the last state or territory to change its laws. The NT passed legislation allowing same-sex couples to adopt children on Tuesday (13 March). The law will allow couple to adopt whether or not they ...

Decriminalizing homosexuality : When archaic laws weigh down a young nation - In yet another crime stemming from deep homophobia and stigma surrounding homosexuals in India, an 18-year-old girl bludgeoned her mother to death in Ghaziabad last week because she didn't approve of her same-sex relationship with her 35-year-old teacher. It could have been prevented had ...

Plain cigarette packaging has arrived in New Zealand - We congratulate those in government who spearheaded this move, especially the Māori Affairs Select Committee and Dame Tariana Turia. We also believe that the benefits of plain packaging could be maximised by implementing this in tandem with other efforts to reduce its access, appeal and ...

Children's experience highlights education issues for Māori - “I know many of our schools are working hard to ensure that te reo Māori me ōna tikanga is valued and used meaningfully. We have come a long way but we need to go further in our education system, and work collectively to create a culturally-safe place that will make Māori students more comfortable, ...

Education Matters to Me reports provide intriguing insight - Among the issues covered in the reports are emotional wellbeing, engagement with learning and the experiences of tamariki and rangatahi Māori . Many Māori students expressed a desire to be better understood by their teachers and fellow students to increase their feeling of comfort at school. In the He ...