The Aboriginal lands in the north of South Australia , the Anangu-Pitjijjanjara or APY lands , made headlines across the country this morning. A 10 month enquiry has found that as many as 1 in 5 Aboriginal children on the lands are being abused, that young sniffers are offering sex for petrol and that many young girls have contracted sexually transmitted diseases. Scott Wilson is head of the Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council. He says that these shocking revelations are nothing new to people working in the area.

A proposed six month paid maternity leave scheme has come under scrutiny at a Productivity Commission inquiry in Canberra today. Marija Jovanovic spoke to National Foundation for Australian women, Chief Policy Director, Marie Coleman, Phd student, Emma Philips from Griffith University and members of the public to see whether they support the proposed scheme.

As the US primaries hit the final leg, even wins for Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton in the states of Indiana and North Carolina mean there is still no hint of who will lead the Democrats into the presidential elections later this year. Catherine Zengerer spoke with Flinders University's Professor of American Studies, Don deBats,to find out whether the race, so far lead by Obama, might take an interesting turn

Retired politicians don't generally fade away.... they write their memoirs. Former Premier of NSW Bob Carr has written a book called " My Reading Life" with chapters dran from his personal library. One chapter, as he tell Ewart Shaw, deals with the failure of socialism.

With the Khmer Rouge communist regime’s genocide trials underway in Cambodia, a Cambodian-Australian filmmaker decided it was time to make a film about the humanitarian disaster, and its effects on those who escaped the horrors and found refuge in Australia. ‘The Red Sense’ explores the conflict felt among Cambodians, who are wanting justice to be served, but also feeling the need to forgive and move on… Deborah Hawke spoke with Tim Pek, the film’s director, about why he took on the project… Featuring Australian-Cambodian Filmmaker, Tim Pek and Dr Alex Stephens, Visiting International Relations Scholar at Flinders University talking from Cambodia.