More Indigenous people are being jailed in Australia even though they aren’t committing more crimes, according to a report released this week by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. It found a 37% increase in Australia’s Indigenous prison population between 2001 and 2008, compared with an 8% increase in the non-Indigenous population. In New South Wales, the increase was even higher at 48%, compared to 7% for non-Indigenous people. There are suggestions that systemic racism is behind this increase. Featured in this story: Megan Davis, Director of the Indigenous Law Centre at the University of NSW, and Jackie Fitzgerald, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.

When it comes to food Australians are not conscientious. Every year we put $5 billion dollars worth of fresh food into the bin. Besides the egregious waste of food the opportunity cost of having excess food in the fridge is the decline of local metropolitan farmers. These farmers need a higher price for their products but city denizens prefer to use their money to buy excess cheap food and throw it in the bin. Featured in this story: Professor Phillip O’Neill, from the urban research centre at the University of Western Sydney and John Dee founder of the Food Wise campaign.

The Top End Aboriginal Broadcasting Association is celebrating 20 years of operation at the same time as hosting the 11th National Remote Media Festival.Featured in story: Linda Chellew - Manager at Indigenous Remote Communications Authority and Lynda McCaffery- head of media at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education.

Associate Professor Colin Butler from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University believes that environmentalists and politicians are missing the point with developing countries and climate change.

A repeat airing of a skit from the revived variety program, "Hey, Hey it's Saturday" has led to mass controversy and even a looming threat of legal action taken out by a former guest, Kamahl. The skit was performed by six men - all of different ethnic backgrounds - who painted their faces black, dancing and miming to the late Michael Jackson. This outraged American guest, Harry Connick Jr. who was deeply offended by the act. So are we becoming too politically correct, or were there deeper connotations? Featured in story: Associate Professor of Media Studies - Sue Turnbull - La Trobe University