Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

The crisis in Australia's mental health system - Disturbing footage exclusively revealed on A Current Affair has shown another incident of police heavy-handedness involving officers dealing with the mentally ill. A Victorian man filmed the footage after becoming concerned with the way police were behaving inside his home after his friend threatened ...

Children are targeted by junk food ads - By creating a new TV monitoring system, a research team in Australia was able to analyze thousands of advertisements and found that ads promoting junk food were most common during times of the day when the most children are watching television. The study was led by the University of Adelaide's ...

If Australian films are so good, why do they need subsidies? - Staring two Australian actors who made it big in Hollywood, Toni Collette and Hugo Weaving, it is set in conservative rural Australia , where the mixed Anglo- Aboriginal title character is denied a place on the local cricket team by a racist coach and players. He befriends an intellectual Vietnamese boy ...

Recognising human rights of others is not a zero sum game -  Australia aboriginal rights movement is still ongoing. As recently as the 1970's, Australia's first people had their children—particularly mixed race children—forcibly removed and put into homes run by whites because of fears that the mixed race population would overrun the population. These children ...

Indigenous and Remote Health Conference - Seven million Australians live in rural and remote Australia . There are also 1,000 remote communities, the majority with few or no services. Australians living rural and remote have shorter lives, with more than half of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders in the remote not living past a half century of ...

Lost in a flawed system: Australia's 'stolen' children - The experience of having her four children, including her 15-month-old son, removed from her care by authorities over a seven-year period, is still painfully raw for Helen Eason, an indigenous Australian woman. "They take your young from you and you have so many taken, you are not whole," she says.

Barangaroo: controversial casino or feminist icon? - The new suburb, which was officially gazetted in 2007 was named for Barangaroo, wife of Bennelong, the Aboriginal man who acted as the go-between with his tribe and the early British colonists in NSW. In modern Sydney tribal parlance, Barangaroo was a lower "North Shore girl" from Cammeraygal ...

Teenage pot smokers are risking mental illnesses in later life - Mr Mustonen, who worked alongside experts from Cambridge and Queensland, Australia , added: “If possible, we should strive to prevent early-stage cannabis use.” Going from being an occasional marijuana user to indulging every day increases the risk of psychosis by up to 159%, research from ...

Migrants at risk if welfare waits approved - find work, with nagging perceptions about their lack of Australian experience or language skills. The network, which represents community legal centres helping migrants navigate access to welfare payments, is concerned they and their families will either plunge into poverty or fall prey to exploitation.

Do Increased Cigarette Prices Encourage Smokers to Quit? - health specialists at the World Bank, attempted to predict the effect that a 50% cigarette price hike would have on health and poverty in 13 countries, ... “For the first time ever, there has been no statistically significant reduction in the smoking rate, and an increase in the number of smokers in Australia ,” ...

Theresa May 'deeply' regrets anti- LGBTI colonial-era laws -  Peter Tatchell, a prominent British LGBTI rights activist who is director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, on Monday urged May to apologize for the laws. May's comments come less than a week after a judge in Trinidad and Tobago, which is a Commonwealth country, struck down the former British ...

Greg Hunt interview goes off rails over 'free speech' and gay conversion therapy - The health minister told Radio National presenter Patricia Karvelas he does not support gay conversion therapy but refused to say if he was concerned by a motion that was to be debated at the upcoming Liberal state council. On Monday Fairfax Media reported that the Victorian Liberal president, ...

Qantas to stand by Rugby Australia despite disquiet over Israel Folau's comments - Qantas will stand by Rugby Australia and honour its major sponsorship agreement following the governing body's decision to not take action against Israel Folau over his ... Last week, Qantas expressed its disappointment at Folau's comment on Instagram that god's plan for gay people was "HELL".

SA's move to ' gay panic' provocation law reform more complicated than it seems - The first Australian state to legalise homosexuality , in 1975, is also the last state where a killer can mount a partial defence to murder by claiming they were provoked by the victim's unwanted homosexual advance. This month the South Australian Law Reform Institute will deliver its second and final ...

Australian rugby star Folau avoids punishment for anti- gay comments - Two weeks ago, the 29-year-old full-back made a controversial comment on his Instagram account, in reply to a question from someone who asked: “what was gods [sic] plan for gay people??” “HELL... Unless they repent of their sins and turn to God,” Folau responded, provoking outcry, with many ...

Young inmates receive top award from behind bars - One 20-year-old offender who took part received a Gold Award, making him the first New Zealand prisoner to achieve this level while behind bars. ... "A lot of young people end up in prison because they haven't had the best role models, environment or opportunities growing up. Helping them gain the ...

Student union presses govt to restore post-grad allowances - The New Zealand Union of Students' Associations is pressing the Minister of Education to reinstate post-graduate students' eligibility for student allowances in next month's budget. NZUSA says Labour made this promise during the 2017 election campaign and the student body is now looking for a start ...

Taking traditional Māori medicine to the masses: Inside the story of Aotea - In order protect the family from illnesses, Toki's kuia (grandmother) would have a pot of kumarahou or kawakawa (both native New Zealand plants) tonic always simmering on a woodstove during winter. The tonics became a staple part of the family diet. It was these traditional Māori herbal remedies, ...

China's Weibo site backtracks on gay censorship after outcry - It was the latest of new measures imposed by President Xi Jinping's government to tighten control over what China's public can see and say online while still ... Hua Zile, the founder of "Voice for China LGBT ," Weibo's first LGBT -themed account, said he was encouraged by the outrage against the site's ...

Maori approach suits tourism trend - More than 350 tourism operators from here and abroad are in Waitangi this week for the World Indigenous Tourism Summit. New Zealand Maori Tourism chair Dale Stephens says tourists are increasingly looking for the indigenous element of a country. He says New Zealand is now perceived as being ...