Three per cent of Australians are Indigenous but they make up 27 per cent of the national prison population, and the absence of appropriate support and services police have become the default front line response for indigenous people with mental and cognitive disabilities. Symptomatic of the crisis is the continuing story of Rosie Anne Fulton, a young indigenous Northern Territory woman who lives with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

A panel discussion moderated by Damien Carrick, celebrating Basic Rights Queensland, one of the state's oldest community legal centres. The panel discusses the role, effectiveness and the funding of organisations that provide advice, advocacy and legal services.

Fourteen members of the Vanuatu parliament have been sentenced to jail for corruption. What does this landmark decision mean for the region?

California is now the largest US state to legalise assisted suicide.

We meet participants and staff at the Victorian Family Drug Treatment Court, a pilot program that aims to help parents reunify with their children who have been taken away because of the parent's drug abuse.

The NSW Property developer's plea to the High Court to allow unlimited political donations gets the thumbs down from the High Court.

The former Chief Justice of England and Wales reflects on the conversation generated during this year's anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta eight hundred years ago.

The High Court of Australia has ruled a multi national company cannot patent a mutated gene that is a cause of breast cancer. What were the court's reasoning and implications for other such cases?

Up to half of law students and lawyers have experienced, or are currently experiencing, depression. What can the law community do to address this alarming statistic?

When there's a serious accident and it's impossible to establish exactly what happened, can courts fill in the gaps with their own theories? A recent High Court decision confirms the judiciary can't speculate.