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The Victorian city of Ballarat has seen a number of high-profile cases of gender-based violence including the alleged murders of three local women.

Recently, 60 school students from 12 secondary colleges came together to share ideas that focused on the role young people can play in tackling this issue.
 
Guests: Karen Snidson, Principal of Phoenix College Students: Charlie Peters and Kyle Burnett

WARNING: This story discusses incidents of self-harm and contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died.

An inquiry into the death in custody of an Indigenous teenager at Perth's Casuarina Prison in October last year has cleared prison officers of serious misconduct, but identified significant failures that led to his death.

Sixteen year old Cleveland Dodd died eight days after self-harming in the youth wing of Perth's Casuarina Prison, the first child to die in custody in the State's recorded history. The Crime and Corruption Commission heard conditions at Unit 18 were "harrowing."
Guest: Hannah McGlade, Associate Professor at Curtin University's Law School and a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Producer: Tim Skelton

If this story has raised issues for you, you can call lifeline on 13 11 14, if you're an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander you can call 13-yarn on 13 92 76

It had a head like a wolf, legs like a kangaroo, stripes like a tiger, and a pouch like a koala.

The thylacine is described as the world's rarest, most elusive animal but is it gone for good or is this the greatest game of hide and seek.
Guest: Tim Noonan, journalist and film-maker, Hunt for Truth: Tasmanian Tiger is available on SBS On Demand

Australia wants to be a renewable energy superpower, and in the global race for new opportunities Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said he wants "Australia to be in it to win it".

But in the excited rush to spin up clean, green renewables and with rivers of government cash already flowing into a number of projects, is there enough pause to think about who will actually benefit from the boom, and whether First Nations communities rights, knowledge, aspirations and equity have been considered?
Guest: Michael Frangos, Chief Executive Officer, Indigenous Energy Australia

More than 300 former staff of Bonza Airlines now have a nervous wait to see if they will receive their entitlements after being sacked yesterday.

The regional airline entered into voluntary administration at the end of April after its aircraft were suddenly repossessed.
Guest: Steven Reed, Manager of Industrial relations with the Flight Attendants' Association of Australia