A $3 million dollar residential facility has opened in Victoria for Indigenous offenders on community based orders. The centre is called Wulgunggo Ngalu and was designed to help address the over-representation of Aboriginal people in Victoria’s criminal justice system. Interview with centre manager, Sean Braybrook.

New research in Brisbane is using music to jog the memory of Dementia sufferers. Interviews with Dr Felicity Baker, Program director for the music therapy training program, University of Queensland; Alzheimer's Australia spokesperson Marci Scarlett; and Hadden Place Day Respite Centre coordinator Lenore Eggins.

A major international marine discovery could see Australian scientists push back the date of evolution of the earliest animals by eight million years. The ancient reef was discovered by three Melbourne geologists in outback South Australia and was the focus of a conference held at the University of Melbourne earlier this week. Interviews with discoverer Estee Woon from the University of Melbourne and Stephen Gallagher, Associate Professor of the Victorian Society of Geology.

Myths about Indigenous drinking, and the history of alcohol in Aboriginal communities, have been highlighted in a new set of resources. First Taste is a research publication funded by the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation. Packaged as a series of small books, First Taste was designed to encourage the view that all societies have it in their power to change cultures of drinking. Interview with author Dr Maggie Brady, from the Aboriginal Economic Policy Research Centre

Alarming figures about self harm in young girls are now available from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The new figures show the number of self harm cases in girls aged thirteen to nineteen years has risen by a third in the past eight years. Head of the Youth, Children and Families Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Sushma Mathur; and Executive Chairman of Headspace, Professor Ian Hickey