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An Islamic charity to open in Melbourne.

An Indigenous youth parliament this weekend.

Plaudits in Cannes for "The Sapphires."

A film based on the true story of a 1960s Aboriginal soul music group has revived interest in indigenous life in that era.

Human rights lawyers are again taking the federal government to the High Court over its immigration detention policies.

Federal MP Craig Thomson has pleaded with the Coalition to let nine investigations and pending court cases into the Health Services Union take their course, and not launch any further inquiries into the matter.

It's considered some of the oldest existing art in the world, but experts say Aboriginal rock art in Queensland is under threat, due to the dangers posed by theft, vandalism and mining.

The time-honoured tradition of a morning tea break could be aiding and abetting the global slave trade.

The economic crisis gripping the eurozone is making things look good in Australia.

An investigation by a law school in the United States has found the state of Texas executed an innocent man.

Young Indigenous Australians are representing their community at the first National Indigenous Youth Parliament in Canberra this weekend.

The human rights group, Amnesty International, says political leaders throughout the world failed to protect human rights during 2011, a year in which activists took to the streets demanding change.

A High Court challenge to indefinite detention.

Private navies in the Indian Ocean.

Did Texas execute an innocent man?

The president of Indonesia has approved a five-year reduction to the prison sentence of convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.

Cape York land rights campaigner John Koowarta's dream of owning his traditional lands has finally come true for his descendants, with the transfer of freehold title by the Queensland government.

An indigenous film chronicling the lives of a group of young Indigenous soul singers has drawn strong reviews after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

Psychiatrists have been warning for years that mandatory immigration detention can cause or exacerbate mental illnesses, but new research claims that refugees and asylum seekers living in the community are also vulnerable to mental illnesses.

A nation-wide study has found just over half of Australians would support banning immigration to the country altogether.

How many people is too many people?

NATO leaders have mapped a path out of the war in Afghanistan, backing plans to hand Afghans the combat lead in the country from the middle of 2013.

The Greens are seeking to amend the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act so refugees can challenge negative security assessments.

Prosecutors at the war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia are using forensic evidence in the case against the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic who's accused of orchestrating the Srebrenica massacre in 1995.