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Pacific Climate on Forum Agenda: 3.8.2009
Two highly critical reports on climate change in the Pacific have been released on the eve of the Pacific Island Forum in Cairns from 4-7 August.
Pacific island nations are looking to Australia to champion their cause at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen later this year.
They also hope Australia will take a leading role to tackle climate change in the region.
Queensland correspondent Stefan Armbruster compiled this report.
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Sri Lanka Refugee Camps Furore: 3.8.2009
Human Rights Watch is calling on the Sri Lankan government to release more than 280-thousand Tamil civilians still being held in 30 detention camps in northern Sri Lanka.
The human-rights advocates say humanitarian workers are prohibited from entering the so-called government welfare centres.
And they say residents are only permitted to leave for emergency medical care.
Human Rights Watch says the camps are overcrowded, there's a shortage of toilets, and access to water is limited.
The organisation's legal and policy director, James Ross, spoke with Diane Nazaroff.
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World View highlights Wed 22 July 2009: 22.7.2009
In this podcast with Attila Mosonyi:
** The Prime Minister stresses the importance of Australia's military commitment in Afghanistan.
** South-east Asia to get the region's first human rights watchdog.
** And all the latest from the Tour De France and the Ashes.
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Sydney Indian and Lebanese youth clash: 11.6.2009
There's been more tension in Sydney overnight, with an angry confrontation between local Lebanese youth and Indian students, who were continuing to protest over their personal safety.
The clash allegedly occurred in Harris Park in the city's west.
Simon Diab, the president of the United Australian Lebanese Assembly, tells Caroline Davey.. he's not sure what provoked it.
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Who are the Uighurs?: 9.6.2009
The fate of a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees .. from a little known ethnic group and cleared of links to terrorism .. remains unknown.
A group of 17 Uighurs had been found without documentation in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2001, some attending Islamic religious schools.. but none has ever been charged or tried.
They don't want to be repatriated to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China .. and the Obama administration is looking for alternative countries to take in the men as refugees.
As the Rudd government decides whether or not to accept some of them to join Australia's 2-thousand strong Uighur community, let's find out about the history and culture of the Uighurs.
Nurgul Sawut is a Central Asia specialist, community development worker, interpreter and an ethnic Uighur.
She's speaking with Caroline Davey.
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Prosperity versus Democracy in China?: 5.6.2009
(Broadcast: Thursday 4 June 2009)
There was a small protest outside the Chinese consulate in Sydney today to commemmorate the brutal crackdown 20 years ago against demonstrators in Tiananmen square.
But there was no organised protest in Melbourne.
According to SBS Radio's Mandarin broadcaster Jason Fang, only a handful of Australia's Mandarin-speaking community are commemmorating the day.
He tells Caroline Davey how this evening's Mandarin program will recognise what's come to be known here, as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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Hot Seat forum on tackling violence against Indian students: 3.6.2009
There appears to be no let up in Australia's spate of violent attacks on Indian international students.
Following one of the most brutal assaults, a 25 year-old student remains unconscious in a Melbourne hospital.
Debate has centred on whether the attacks are primarily racially motivated.
Some have suggested underlying economic reasons - the recession, and groups of unemployed young men looking for targets to take out their resentment.
How well are authorities dealing with this serious problem, and what else should they be doing?
That's is the focus of this week's Hot Seat Forum with Caroline Davey.
NOTE: Panel comprises Gautum Gupta from the Federation of Indian Students of Australia, Priya Ramesh from the Victorian International Students Association, Vasan Srinivasan from the Federation of Indian Associations of Victoria, Nazeem Hussain from the Islamic Council of Victoria and Wesa Chau from the Australian Federation of International Students .
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Need to call a spade a spade to overcome racist violence: Indian view: 2.6.2009
Sam Varghese is an Indian Australian who's been living and working in Melbourne for 12 years.
He's concerned that the government and police haven't condemned the brutal attacks on Indian international students, as racially motivated .. and fears that this will only act to embolden others .. in other parts of the country .. to do similar things.
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Why poor Aborigines say 'No' to $125m: 27.5.2009
A leading authority on Aboriginal culture says the federal government is using the wrong approach in dealing with an Aboriginal council over the control and management of Town Camps in Alice Springs.
Professor Jon Altman is familiar with Town Camps .. and interacts frequently with local Aborigines who are living under the Intervention in the Northern Territory.
He believes the third-world state that some of the Town Camps are in, can be fixed.
But he told Caroline Davey that Minister Jenny Macklin has been going around the problem in a paternalistic.. and counterproductive way.
NOTE: Professor Jon Altman is the Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the ANU.
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Analysis of North Korea's underground nuclear bomb test: 26.5.2009
As the United Nations Security Council works on a new resolution on North Korea over its latest nuclear test, some analysts believe the move is based on domestic politics.
There are reports of an internal power struggle in the country, as hardliners seek to provoke the world into action, to justify their own repressive regime.
Dr Ron Huisken is a specialist in nuclear non-proliferation.
He told Caroline Davey that North Korea was following through on an earlier warning to the international community.
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