Past Programs
Adolescent Health - 2008
New party to cover censorship issues
17/11/2008
The Australian Sex Party will be launched in Melbourne this week. The party is still gathering enough members to register itself, but hopes to run senate candidates. Their platform will include more relaxed censorship laws, improved sex education in schools and a better approach to internet filtering. The party is already planning to attach a short advertisement to the millions of X-rated videos to be sold over the next year, calling for support.
Kimberley youth
28/02/2008
Earlier this week the WA Coroner, Alastair Hope, said that Aboriginal welfare in the Kimberley region was 'a disaster, (with) no one in charge of the disaster response'. Nowhere in the Kimberley is that disaster more intense than the town of Fitzroy Crossing. By early last year, there'd been 13 suicides in 13 months, predominantly young Indigenous males.
Almost inexplicably, an innovative proposal by the community to deal with the issue by creating a Youth Plan and Youth Centre has been bureaucratically ignored for the past 18 months. Another award winning cultural program with a strong anti-alcohol and anti-drug message has been unfunded since June last year. The coordinator for the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre says the community feels that it's been abandoned by both Commonwealth and state governments.
MS Brain Bank
05/02/2008
It's estimated that more than 18,000 Australians suffer from multiple sclerosis, but the overall cause of MS is still unknown. Later today, Australia will launch its first MS Brain Bank, with the hope of improving treatment of the disease.
