On the 13th February the Government has committed to saying sorry to the Stolen Generations. It’s something that the Aboriginal community and their supporters have been fighting for since the “Bringing Them Home” report in 1997. The study documented the systematic removal of indigenous children from their families. This practice started as early as the mid 1800s and continued until the early 1970s. The report’s aims were to outline a way to heal the wounds the removals caused. Apologizing is just one of the proposals the report makes. Featured in story: Thalia Anthony, Lecturer of Law at Sydney University, Helen Moran, indigenous co-chair of the National Sorry Day Committee

The 60th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence from Britain has been marred by a suicide attack on a railway station in the nation’s capital, Colombo, which has claimed at least 11 lives and left more than 100 wounded. While the separatist group the Tamil Tigers has so far denied responsibility for the attack, the incident is symptomatic of the upsurge in violence since the Colombo government formally ended the most recent ceasefire. The Wire’s Dilenjit Singh looks at how the resumption of military tensions between the Sri Lankan Government and the Tamil Tigers is affecting the influx of essential foreign aid. Featured in story: Nigel Spence, CEO of Childfund Australia, Si Sira Jayasoria, Professor of Economics at La Trobe University.

In Australia thirty-four thousand people are diagnosed with cancer every year. Worldwide, approximately twenty-four thousand people will die per day. But with each of these cancer sufferers comes a carer. Featured in story: Paula Valentine, Cancer Council Australia

In Victoria a battle is raging over a pipeline that will carry water from the Goulburn River System to the Sugarloaf Reservoir that supplies Melbourne with water. The Sugarloaf Pipeline is part of the Victorian Government’s overall plan to conserve water within the State. It feeds into the one billion dollar Food Bowl Modernisation Project, that aims to “save” water lost within the current irrigation system. According to farmers, however, the region is under strain from the drought, and there are no “savings” to be made. Featured in story: Jan Beer, Spokesperson for "Plug the Pipeline", Richard Guy, Chair of the Northern Victoria Infrastructure Renewal Project