• Weekend One on One

  • By: SBS
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Weekend One on One

By: SBS
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  • Summary

  • Go behind the headlines and hear what the newsmakers themselves have to say. In this weekend series, we’ll be getting experience, analysis, and understanding in extended interviews with the people who really know what’s going on.
    Copyright 2024, Special Broadcasting Services
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Episodes
  • INTERVIEW: SBS speaks to Maryam Zahid, an Afghan refugee working to uplift women in her community

    INTERVIEW: SBS speaks to Maryam Zahid, an Afghan refugee working to uplift women in her community
    Nov 15 2024
    Maryam Zahid first fled to Australia as a refugee from Afghanistan 26 years ago. Since then, she's been an advocate for women in her community being able to live freely and openly in their new home of Australia through her organisation Afghan Women on the Move. They help provide skills training, financial literacy and employment opportunities to women while helping to heal trauma through art programs and support groups. I'm Sam Dover and I spoke to Maryam after one of her latest efforts to get the word out about her organisation, a one-act play called The Good Woman which shares some of the stories of women helped by Afghan Women on the Move.
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    11 mins
  • INTERVIEW: Climate finance gap for Pacific nations revealed in new report

    INTERVIEW: Climate finance gap for Pacific nations revealed in new report
    Nov 14 2024
    A new report has calculated how much annual climate finance is needed to flow from rich nations to Pacific countries. The funds would help speed up the energy transition, address climate impacts, and deal with climate-related loss and damage. The report by Caritas Australia and the Jubilee Australia Research Centre finds that around US$1.5 billion is needed annually to meet the climate finance needs for Pacific nations. The current gap or shortfall is calculated to be two-thirds of that amount. Report co-author Damian Spruce from Caritas Australia spoke to Biwa Kwan about the report's findings as world leaders at COP29 negotiate a deal for a new climate finance target.
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    12 mins
  • INTERVIEW: Anti-slavery expert Fiona David

    INTERVIEW: Anti-slavery expert Fiona David
    Nov 9 2024
    The United States has recently added 78 entitites to its Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act list to ensure domestic businesses do not profit directly or indirectly from forced labour occurring in a number of overseas countries - including by the Uyghur minority population in China's Xinjiang province. So far $3.62 billion worth of goods has been inspected by customs which has denied 42 per cent of shipments into the country. Australian anti-slavery expert and founder of Fair Futures, Fiona David. says Australia should adopt similar legislation so that we have greater transparency around where our products come from, and more crucially, how they are being made. She speaks to SBS' Catriona Stirrat
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    12 mins

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