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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.

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INTERVIEW: Dr Patsie Frawley on promoting intimacy rights for people with disabilities

Associate Professor Patsie Frawley researches sexuality rights as well as violence and abuse prevention in the lives of people with disabilities.

13 min
20/12/2025

INTERVIEW: Can early education make your children happy adults?

Jessica Joelle Alexander is a parenting expert, author and cultural researcher, with a specific expertise in the Danish parenting approach. Alexander is also the co-founder of 'Raising Digital Citizens', which aims to support families to have conversations around values in the online space. Denmark has been ranked among the 'happiest' countries in the world for more than a decade and a big part of this ranking has been linked to learning empathy from a young age. Her books and research explores this concept - and how parents can foster compassion, resilience, emotional-intelligence and human connection from an early age.

13 min
19/12/2025

INTERVIEW: ACCC’s new warning about the dangers of AI for consumers

As artificial intelligence rapidly becomes a part of everyday life for Australians, the ACCC is warning the technology also brings growing risks. In its AI industry snapshot, the consumer watchdog says AI is being used to fuel fake reviews, ghost websites and increasingly sophisticated online scams, making them harder to detect – and warns the rapid expansion of AI-enabled products and services could pose potential harms to consumers and competition if left unchecked. SBS's Stephanie Youssef spoke with ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb about whether AI is creating a new generation of digital monopolies and why it's calling for stronger monitoring powers to keep pace with the evolving industry.

17 min
15/12/2025

INTERVIEW: What needs to be done about our gun laws?

The Bondi Beach shooting has seen state, territory and federal politicians agree that Australia's already stringent gun laws need to be reviewed and strengthened. The National Firearms Agreement was introduced after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre to standardise rules about who could own a gun - and why. But experts on firearms legislation say some holes in the rules have become apparent. In New South Wales, applications to have a firearms licence are handled by the Gun Registry - which came under intense scrutiny after a tragic murder suicide in 2018, when an estranged father, John Edwards, fatally shot his teenage children. He had a history of domestic violence which hadn't been flagged to the Gun Registry. Not all the changes recommended after the Edwards inquest have been implemented. Deborah Groarke spoke to Maya Arguello who's a law and criminology expert at the Swinburne University of Technology.

12 min
15/12/2025

INTERVIEW: Jillian Segal, Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism

Leaders of Australia's Jewish community have condemned the mass shooting on Bondi Beach. The shooting took place as people gathered for Chanukah by the Sea, a community event to celebrate the first day of Hanukkah. 15 people are dead and one of the two gunmen was also killed. A statement from the Jewish Council of Australia says the organisation is horrified and shaken. Jillian Segal is Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism. She's been speaking to SBS Chief Political Correspondent Anna Henderson

19 min
14/12/2025

INTERVIEW: SBS speaks to Human Rights Commissioner as UN blocked from inspecting detention facilities

This week, human rights experts from United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention were blocked from inspecting detention facilities in the Northern Territory and West Australia. As they wrapped up a 12-day tour of facilities across the country, preliminary findings raise substantial concerns around the over-representation of First Nations people, punitive policies that target children, rising rates of remand and mandatory detention, among other issues. The federal immigration detention regime was also found to contravene fundamental international human rights norms - including the Commonwealth's recent deal with Nauru to deport stateless people. Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay says the findings show Australia is not complying with key international human rights commitments it has made to the world. She’s speaking here with Tee Mitchell.

15 min
06/12/2025

INTERVIEW: Do oysters have ears? Dr Dominic McAfee shares a unique method for oyster regeneration

That's the sound of snapping shrimp - music to oyster ears. Dr Dominic McAfee has been playing this sound underwater to help regenerate natural oyster reefs. He's been doing this work for years, but recently, there's been an upswell in interest, as the South Australian government tries to increase resilience against a harmful algal bloom. The ongoing environmental crisis has killed hundreds of species and resulted in tens, possibly hundreds, of thousands of marine deaths. Dr McAfee says South Australia used to be home to huge oyster reefs, which would have curbed the intensity of the algal bloom because they naturally filter the water. He’s speaking here with SBS's Tee Mitchell, who started by asking about the role and extent of oyster reefs before colonisation.

13 min
28/11/2025

INTERVIEW: Australian youth identify cost of living as top concern in survey

Cost of living was the number one challenge identified by Australian youth surveyed by Mission Australia.

10 min

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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.