It's NAIDOC week from 4-11th July, a time of celebration for Indigenous communities across Australia, this year's theme is: "Self-Determination - Our Community - Our Future - Our Responsibility". But as this week kicks off there are fears that one of South Australia's key Aboriginal services will be lost due to funding cuts. Questions are being raised about whether this is a flow on effect from the Federal government's move to dismantle ATSIC. Will Farrell spoke to Vince Coulthard, Director of Umeewarra Aboriginal Media Association.

Up to 130 million Indonesians voted today in the country’s first ever Presidential poll. In preparation for this new-found democracy, Indonesian political parties have set the party mode on full volume, with giant colourful rallies, endorsements by pop singers and dancers introducing presidential speakers. Even the candidates sing a song or two to get the party started. So how important is peronality compared to policy? Taya Fabijanic spoke to Indonesia specialist, Adrian Vickers, from the Centre for Asia PAcific Social Transformation Studies at the University of Wollongong to get the lowdown on the Indonesian political process.

To some, the idea of owning a human gene, or part of the body's blue-print may sound a bit hard to believe. But actually it's been going on for the past 20 years. It's only in the past 5 - 10 years that there's been some sort of public debate about it in Australia. So what are the scientific and ethical concerns of gene patenting? Some corporatations believe that if they do the research on human, plant or animal genes, they should have ownership of that information. Last week, The Democrats welcomed the completion of the Australian Law Reform Commission's final report on Gene Patenting. The Democrats argue that access to genes and gene sequences must be assured by preventing commercial constraints from patent rights. Elissar Mukhtar spoke to Australian Democrats' Science and Biotechnology Spokeperson Natasha Scott Despoja; and Bob Williamson, Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Melbourne and Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute at the Royal Children's Hospital.

This week in Sydney, you can catch the International Youth Parliament organised by OXFAM, where lots of young people are gathering from all over the world to discuss important issues and their ideas about how to change the world for the better. The festival also has a cultural component, "Y-Voices and Visions of World Youth" which combines music, acrobatics and dance acts from France, Australia, Brasil, Quebec, Chile and South Africa. Each group has been working on a piece in their home country and they've been rehearsing and collaborating together in Australia over the past month towards the opening performance this week. David is a graffiti artist from Montreal, who’s been painting the sets for the Sydney performance, and has recently formed a hip hop group called M.T.L Pact de Rue with four other mc's and a dj. He's also been working on a graff piece with local young people at Bondi Beach in Sydney. James Fletcher caught up with David on Friday, before rehearsal.