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For more than a century the hamlet of Yarloop, in the south of Western Australia, has lived off the bounty of its soil.

Terri Janke is a Sydney-based Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property lawyer, whose firm is the only one in the country dealing with the issue of ICIP rights for Indigenous people.

Shane Dolan was a small businessman doing comfortably well when he came across a job advertisement for an aid worker in Africa.

As the world grapples with the Global Financial Crisis, Compass asks: Should our lives be ruled by the almighty dollar?

Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest is one of Australia's richest men.

Reporter Debbie Whitmont goes to the north-west coast of Western Australia to talk to the people at the centre of a bitter dispute over the location of a gas processing plant the mining company say

This French production investigates how demand for cheap paper is fuelling the destruction of Tasmania's lush primary forests.

This Spanish produced documentary looks at the pressing issue of carbon trading.

Burma is one of the world's most closed and surveiled societies. It is a nation where independent journalists are banned and where translators and guides are often threatened.

Hetti Perkins, senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, shares her knowledge of - and passion for - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander a