Tomorrow is the United Nations International Day of Peace and across the country organisations are gearing up for vigils and celebrations. Schools are also getting involved. As part of the global peace school movement developed by the UN, charity group Save the Children was given a mandate to name UN global peace schools in Australia. Save the Children South Australia have developed the program from its beginnings in WA in 2005 to recognise one school per year as a global peace school. The Wire’s Juliette Robinson speaks to Save the Children SA’s Programs Manager Joan O’Connor on a school’s year long application to become a Global Peace School.

Parents of Northern Territory children could have one hundred percent of their welfare payments quaratined if they fail to get their kids to school. Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough announced the change earlier this week. He explains, while Geraldine Atkinson from SNAICC gives her view.

Also being discussed at this week’s SNAICC Ntional Conference is the issue of how to ensure children are proud of their Indigenous heritage. Owen Teakle asked chairperson of Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care MURIEL BAMBLETT about some of the initiatives for the teaching of Indigenous culture being discussed at the conference.

Its hard enough to keep track of politicians, their policies and their parties as it is but imagine if all your election worries came at once. The New South Wales Business Chamber thinks having joint State and Federal elections will actually make life easier. The CEO Kevin MacDonald talks about the idea behind the proposal and Associate Professor at the School of Political and International Studies at Flinders University, Haydon Manning, discusses the situation.

Australia has topped another list, but don’t get too excited, it’s not necessarily a good list. The ‘Enduring Voices’ project is a collaboration between some American linguistic experts and the National geographic magazine and they’ve compiled a list of regions which have the most languages in danger of extinction. Australia is number one. Doctor David Harrison from Enduring Voices in the US and Denise Karpany of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation of Languages talk about why our diverse voices are being silenced.