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In Bowral in 1980 a small refuge and home called HyVong was formed by Father Strangman, of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. It lasted just four years, but it gave `hope´ to almost 50 detached and unattached Cambodian and Vietnamese young men, fleeing Communist reprisals against them after the Vietnam war and the horrors of the Pol Pot years in Cambodia. HyVong Journey of Hope, tells of the now ordinary lives of men with an extraordinary history, 28 years after they arrived in Australia, and of the impact their arrival had on Australia´s refugee and foreign policy in the years since. Listen to extended interviewsLee BorradalePhuoc VoProfessor Marie Bashir

As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia's largest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime. During a time of major institutional and cultural upheaval, the Office of the Patient´s Friend opened its doors in 1977, the first patient advocacy service to operate within the confines of an Australian psychiatric hospital. Part advocate, part whistle-blower running the service has taken a might of steel and a heart of gold. Thirty years later, Nadia Beer remains in the role. View the picture gallery of Goodna photos past and present here: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/galleries/2008/2305567/

Harry Gordon: Living, breathing and writing the Olympics Harry Gordon first set out to report on the Olympics in Helsinki in 1952 and now, more than half a century later, he's turned his gaze to Beijing. This week on The Sports Factor meet the master of Australian sports writing.

Indigenous baby packages Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is considering distributing 'baby packs' to indigenous mothers from Cape York, as a way to tackle serious health problems in children. Reducing hospital infections Going to hospital is no fun but even more distressing if you acquire an infection you didn´t come in with. Music Track - The best is yet to come Codgers A new play called Codgers gives a public voice to older Australian men.

No matter what atrocities men and women might commit, it's generally accepted in the western world, the line is drawn at eating each other. The question is what circumstances might drive one human being to eat another and become a cannibal. The answer to that question can be found in a new book called Bloodlust, that details the life and times of the convict Alexander Pearce.

Later today, the Commonwealth Bank will join 90 other businesses and organisations from around Australia who have developed Reconciliation Action Plans. It's an attempt to make the grand notion of reconciliation real at the grass roots level. But it's also an attempt to stop what the bank's boss calls 'inappropriate lending practices' to Indigenous communities. Ralph Norris, who has a part Maori heritage, says there's no reason why an Indigenous person couldn't one day run a major bank.

Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed The history of Algeria has been turbulent with the transition from colonialism to revolution to socialism to Islamic insurgency. Today it is viewed as a breeding ground for terrorists. How has Algeria´s history - and the manipulation of it - contribute to the state it´s in today and what does the future hold? Rediscovering the New World Tony Horwitz believes most Americans are confused about American history. It's almost like they think Christopher Columbus sailed to America, dropped off the Pilgrims and sailed home. When he began pondering his own knowledge of the founding of America by Europeans he realised that he'd "mislaid an entire century".

0826 Strands from World Youth Day 2088 Pilgrim perspectives from a worldwide church gathered in Sydney for World Youth Day: Social Justice strands with Cardinal Óscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga of the Honduras, former President of the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM); female genital mutilation and women's rights faced by African pilgrims with Loreto Sr Ephigenia; and the restorationist strand of grand Roman liturgy.

The meaty business of boxing

Childcare and women in the workforce Jennifer Buckingham argues there is only a weak relationship between the cost of childcare and women's participation in Australia. Navigating the empty nest You might be surprised to hear that one of the biggest parenting challenges around is actually dealing with your offspring once they´ve left the family home. Holding Men In the current debates about the health and viability of Indigenous communities, there are voices not often heard, those of Aboriginal men in remote communities. Your feedback The letter of the week comes from Mark in response to Dr Rosie King's talk on building a great relationship.

With less than three weeks to go before the Olympic Games, the ability of drug testers to stop the cheats is being questioned. Researchers in Denmark claim that a key test used by the World Anti-Doping Agency for the performance enhancing drug EPO failed to detect cheating in samples supplied by eight student volunteers. The embarrassing revelation came after the head of the anti-doping program for the International Ski Federation claimed that WADA's drug testing system is fatally flawed.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is now in the middle of a two day trip to Israel. He is the first British leader to address the Israeli parliament, where he expressed his support for Israel and his optimism that a landmark Middle East peace deal can be made. He also reiterated Britain's commitment to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

This sixth part of the 'Elders' series features Father Des Reid. For over half a century as a Catholic priest, he has ministered to people on three continents - from isolated communities in east Africa to illegal immigrants in Australian detention centres. Now on the cusp of retirement, he reflects on a life that began in rural Ireland.

Civil war - what's in a name

Australia's resources boom has made a lot of people rich, created a lot of jobs and provided a buffer against volatile global economic times. But, the boom has also been responsible for an upsurge in the number of lovelorn mining men whose work rosters make it difficult to form relationships. However, one enterprising young Western Australian woman seems to have come up with the answer to their problems.

Sam Clear is one of the stars of WYD08 having just completed a world-wide walk for Christian unity in which he survived guns to the head and below-freezing temperatures. He joins the sounds of young Catholic pilgrims as they take to the streets, and we hear from two veteran religion journalists, Linda Morris from the The Sydney Morning Herald and Barney Zwartz from The Age who analyse the impact of WYD.

The 2,000 year papal succession includes a gallery of rogues, righteous men, and some who were clearly mad. Historian, broadcaster and former priest Paul Collins recounts a colourful history.

Henry West is 62 and for the past 15 years he has dedicated himself to the sport of amateur bodybuilding. He has been unrelenting in his devotion to this physical pursuit and his efforts have paid off. In 2006 Henry travelled to Austria where he took out the Mr Universe Men Over 60 title. However, that wasn't enough, Henry is still at it and recently took part in the 2008 Southern Hemisphere Championships at the Southport RSL on the Gold Coast. Street Stories spent time with him during his rigorous preparations at the gym and in the kitchen and we travelled with him for the big event. Watch a Mr Universe video in MP4 [18.1MB] or Windows Media Video [17.1MB]

Even as petrol prices skyrocket, nations around the globe continue to invest in highways. They transport us from place to place, they move our food and our goods and, for those of us who live in or near big cities, they bring us to work. This week on Rear Vision we look at the history of the highway.

Does science make belief in God obsolete? Cosmologist and mathematician Michal Heller's answer to this 'Big Question' this year won him the world's largest monetary prize given to an individual, the Templeton Prize. On Encounter Professor Heller explores 'creative tensions' between science and religion and talks about his research for a quantum gravity theory that might explain the Planck Epoch. And astronomer Guy Consolmagno SJ has things to say about meteorites, the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan, and beauty.

There's a boom in funerals around the corner as the Boomers face mortality, but neither cemeteries nor crematoria are eco-friendly. The business of burials is beginning to adapt, and so are their future customers. Reporter Ian Townsend.

Medical historian Dr Jim Leavesley from Margaret River in Western Australia, talks about Dr W.G. Grace, medicine's greatest gift to cricket, whose last match was in 1908 when he was 59 years old. Apparently he was much better at cricket than at medicine.

In the summer of 1965, a group of Sydney University students led by a young Charles Perkins boarded a bus bound for far north western New South Wales. Their task? To draw national attention to the deeply entrenched racism and segregation that existed in towns like Moree and Walgett. ABC journalist John Cassidy joined the freedom riders as a reporter, embedded with them on the bus. He produced a fly-on-the-wall documentary which, at the time, the ABC declined to broadcast. Produced by John Cassidy

As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia's largest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime. In this series All in the Mind unearths stories from people who lived and worked there. A nurse reflects on life in the asylum during World War II before the dramatic arrival of modern medications, and two sisters reminisce on growing up at Goodna with their matron aunt in the 1930s. Very different insights from opposite sides of the ward walls.

The word, 'sorry', has different meanings in Australian English and Aboriginal English. So what did Prime Minister Rudd's historic apology, made earlier this year, actually signify for the Indigenous Australians to whom it was offered?

The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon Born in 1964, Aleksandar Hemon grew up in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and became a journalist. In 1992 he travelled to America on a US-sponsored goodwill tour. His home city came under siege while he was in Chicago, where he stayed as a refugee. After a wide variety of low-level, minimum-wage jobs, he started writing in his second language, English, in 1995. His acclaimed collection of stories The Question of Bruno provoked comparisons with Conrad, Nabokov and Kundera when it appeared in 2000 and won several awards. His new book is The Lazarus Project. Aleksandar Hemon won one of the American MacArthur Foundations' famed "genius grants" in 2004 to fund research for the book which is an exploration of immigration and identity.

If you're following the Stations of the Cross in Sydney, one of the highlights will be Pontius Pilate on the Opera House steps. The set is pure Hollywood blockbuster, but the actor playing the Roman Prefect who condemned Jesus to die on the cross is better known to Australian audiences as the popular presenter of Playschool, Donald McDonald.

World Youth Day continues today with the Stations Of The Cross, a re-enactment of the last moments of Christ's life. The re-enactment will take place at a number of well-known Sydney locations: the Opera House, Darling Harbour and the NSW Art Gallery to name a few. Yesterday Sydney's CBD was brought to a standstill as pilgrims and Sydneysiders alike crammed the streets to catch a glimpse of Pope Benedict XVI.

Remembering Fromelles

Green collar jobs The carbon emissions trading scheme will impact on the cost of living and potentially affect jobs in carbon-intensive industries. Kalgoorlie Community Court The issue of how to better deal with Aboriginal offenders in the justice system has spawned a number of alternative approaches, one of the better known strategies is `circle sentencing´. Elly Varrenti on repartnering after separation On Monday we talked about the impact on children of re-partnering after separation and divorce. Building a great relationship GP and sex Therapist Rosie King believes that a great relationship needs maintenance.