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For many baby boomers homelessness is just a couple of rent payments away. Up to a quarter of a million older Australians may be at risk. As Kylie Grey uncovers in this Background Briefing investigation homelessness has a new face. Have we left it too late for a radical re-think on how we house our ageing population?

Australia pioneered the concept of free secular education in the 1800s, and the rest of the world followed. But today, around one third of Australian children attend private schools that are mostly Christian. Is the dream of our forefathers to ensure an egalitarian and secular education slipping away? Does God belong in the classrooms of our public schools? Kylie Grey examines the future of religious education in Australia, and whether God still has a role to play in our schools.

As the demand for foster care grows, the number of carers for children who have been removed from their families is in decline. The foster care system, almost unchanged in a century, is in desperate need of reform, as Kylie Grey investigates.

The Muslim community in Australia is anxious: militant Islam is on the rise in the Middle East and spreading around the globe. The Australian government has reacted by increasing the surveillance powers of intelligence services. How are the new laws and the media hype impacting the Sunni Muslim community in Sydney, and what are their solutions to the rising discontent?