Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

A new take on violence in Indonesian Papua - Most violence in Papua is assumed to be an issue of indigenous people threatened by the state. But this assumption is anecdotal. Despite the wealth Indonesia earns through Papua's abundant natural resources, a dearth of government services results in ordinary Papuans having the lowest incomes, ...

Prostate cure gap critical for Maori - Prostate Cancer Foundation NZ is challenging disparities around the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer nationwide, especially for Maori men. It intends to highlight the issue at its annual conference at Te Papa in Wellington next month. Chief executive Graeme Woodside says Maori men fare ...

Ten young entrepreneurs New Zealanders should know about - Wright has been involved in developing strategies for the Māori unit at The Icehouse, Māori trusts embarking on new growth projects, the initial Callaghan Innovation's Māori Engagement Strategy, and the Government's Māori Economic Development Advisory Board. Wright was also a finalist for the 2016 ...

Youth offending more than halved: report - Youth offending has dropped drastically in the past eight years but the reduction has not been as great among young Maori , a new report has found. The first Youth Justice Indicators Summary Report released on Wednesday showed the rate of offending for children aged 10-13 years fell 59 per cent ...

Census reveals missed group of 15000 - The DHBs have systems to identify people and encourage them to take part, and have funding to work with high-priority groups such as Māori , Pasifika and deprived populations. As well, if Māori and Pasifika resident do not return a testing kit, they are phoned by the National Coordination Centre.

TJ Perenara has become the latest player to attack Israel Folau's comments on homosexuality - Notably, young Maori and Pasifika people. “You don't need to look far to know that young Maori /PI are overrepresented in youth suicide statistics and, as I understand it, even more so when you look to those who are part of the Rainbow community. Comments that cause further harm cannot be tolerated.

Searching for healing in New Zealand's rolling hills and vibrant waters - The Maori greet nose-to-nose, with a sharing of the breath. The universal term “Kia Ora” – which you will hear again and again, beginning with your first contact with the Air New Zealand flight crew – is one of those versatile phrases that means many things: It's a greeting, a thank-you, a you're welcome, ...

Sharp drop in youth offending rates -  New data on youth offending has highlighted the need the reduce the number of Maori and Pasifika youth in the system. The first Youth Justice Indicators Summary Report show between the 2009/10 year and 2016/17 the rate of offending for children aged 10 to 13 years fell 59 and offending by young ...

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, ...