Episodes

  • 'A call to remember': First Nations Veterans honoured at ceremony in Sydney

    'A call to remember': First Nations Veterans honoured at ceremony in Sydney
    May 31 2025
    The contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Veterans has been honoured at a ceremony in Sydney. This year’s commemorations, focusing on the meaning of ‘lest we forget’ and how this practice was previously neglected. And a warning this story contains the name of a First Nations person who has died.
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    4 mins
  • Global outcry over Gaza, China woos Pacific & Beatboxing nuns

    Global outcry over Gaza, China woos Pacific & Beatboxing nuns
    May 31 2025
    Australia’s government joins growing condemnation of Israel’s war on Gaza, the competition for influence in the Pacific, and has President Trump’s tough stance pushed Russia any closer to a ceasefire? Plus, a surprising result in Lebanon’s municipal elections and the beatboxing skills of a Brazilian nun.
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    27 mins
  • INTERVIEW: The Australian doctor seeking to build a children's hospital in Gaza

    INTERVIEW: The Australian doctor seeking to build a children's hospital in Gaza
    May 30 2025
    Dr Mohammed Mustafa has travelled to Gaza twice as a volunteer doctor. Whilst overseas, he built up an online following as he shared his firsthand account of what was happening on the ground. SBS News spoke with Dr Mustafa as he travelled to Canberra, hoping to gain support from the Australian government to build a children's hospital in Gaza.
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    11 mins
  • New technology developed in Australia could help clear land mines faster, better

    New technology developed in Australia could help clear land mines faster, better
    May 30 2025
    Almost three decades since the international adoption of the Mine Ban Treaty, civilians in almost 70 countries still live with the risk of landmines. About 6,000 people a year are killed and wounded globally by explosive remnants. Clearance operations remain both a dangerous and painstaking task. It can take decades to rid a country of explosive remnants, but an Australian company - in partnership with the CSIRO - has developed new technology that it says has the potential to make clearance operations faster, smarter and safer.
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    6 mins
  • Doctor urges Australia to help Gazans as government moves towards recognising Palestinian state

    Doctor urges Australia to help Gazans as government moves towards recognising Palestinian state
    May 30 2025
    After returning from Gaza, an Australian trainee emergency doctor is calling on Australia to lead a project establishing a children's hospital, and to recognise Palestinian statehood. Australia's representative to the United Nations has welcomed international moves to recognise statehood before a peace process is finalised. It comes as some have called for Australia to join like-minded nations in threatening sanctions on Israel after an 11-week blockade on aid. But there are concerns within the community that recognising statehood would reward Hamas.
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    13 mins
  • 'Forgotten genocide' in Namibia observed with first remembrance day

    'Forgotten genocide' in Namibia observed with first remembrance day
    May 30 2025
    Namibia has honoured the victims of the German genocide in their country, as politicians and affected communities voice fresh calls for reparations. In what is considered the first genocide of the 20th Century, German soldiers killed some 65,000 OvaHerero people and 10,000 Nama people between 1904 and 1908.
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    6 mins
  • 'Pinball machine' policies: analysts react to developments in Trump tariffs

    'Pinball machine' policies: analysts react to developments in Trump tariffs
    May 30 2025
    Donald Trump's wide-ranging tariffs on international imports will remain in place for now, after the White House filed an emergency intervention in Federal Court. The U-S government made the appeal in response to a court order that some import tariffs be blocked immediately, on the grounds the president had over-reached his powers.
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    5 mins
  • ASX shrugs off Trump tariff legal challenge and Nvidia result

    ASX shrugs off Trump tariff legal challenge and Nvidia result
    May 29 2025
    SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with Todd Hoare from LGT Crestone Wealth Management Limited and Armina Rosenberg from Minotaur Capital to find out why Australian investors looked past surging US Futures following Nvidia's strong earnings result and after a US court blocked Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs.
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    15 mins
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