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28/08/2025

Knights of the (productivity) roundtable ft. Senator Jacqui Lambie

A lot has happened since the last sitting week. The Prime Minister announced Australia's plan to soon recognise Palestinian statehood, and the best economic minds gathered to solve the productivity crisis. We break down why you should care about productivity at all, and Jacqui Lambie talks through her idea for a 'climate army'.

28/08/2025

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22 min
25/07/2025

Miners drag ASX down; CBA’s horror week

The Australian share market has finished the week in the red; mining and gold stocks dragged the ASX-200 down as the iron ore price fell below US$100. Stephanie Youssef spoke with Medallion Financial Group’s managing director Michael Wayne.

25/07/2025

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8 min
24/07/2025

ASX in the red; RBA warns of longer inflation fight

The Australian share market has closed 0.3% down following a soft session. Stephanie Youssef spoke with Mathan Somasundaram, the CEO of Deep Data Analytics, who says overseas trade developments are having an impact on investor behaviour. Plus, Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock warns it could take longer to tame underlying inflation in her annual address to the Anika Foundation.

24/07/2025

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13 min
23/08/2025

INTERVIEW: Why this emergency nurse is putting his life on the line – again – in Gaza

As a humanitarian crisis escalates in Gaza, Australian Red Cross emergency nurse Jean-Philippe Miller has flown back for his fourth rotation. After 14 humanitarian deployments worldwide, the 41-year-old from Melbourne says aid work in Gaza is ‘unlike anything else’. Prior to his departure, Mr Miller described his life-saving mission to SBS’s Sandra Fulloon.

23/08/2025

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9 min
30/03/2025

Path to Coalition victory narrows in 2025 election, polling suggests

New polling has indicated that Labor is within just one seat of forming a majority government in the May 3 election as the campaign gets underway. The YouGov findings are a stunning reversal of fortune for Labor, who was trailing in a similar poll released in February.

30/03/2025

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6 min
30/07/2025

Government under pressure to recognise Palestinian state

Government under pressurThe government is facing internal pressure to recognise a Palestinian state as the UK threatens formal recognition unless Israel ends the war.

30/07/2025

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6 min
29/02/2024

SBS On the Money: The weak consumer outlook & Bitcoin hits an Australian record

Retail sales rose in January but AMP Senior Economist Diana Mousina tells SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves that the outlook is weak, plus hear from Ben Clark from TMS Capital about the day on the sharemarket including the recent surge in the price of Bitcoin.

29/02/2024

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9 min
09/05/2025

INTERVIEW: Connecting migrants with employers

Recent arrivals in Australia continue to face barriers entering the workforce. A new jobs service that connects skilled migrants and refugees with employers, is also helping to tackle a national skills shortage. It’s the vision of Carmen Garcia, a social enterprise founder with a big heart. She is speaking with SBS's Sandra Fulloon.

09/05/2025

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13 min
12/05/2025

INTERVIEW: CEO of Palliative Care Australia

National Palliative Care Week is in its 30th year, and this years theme is - What's your plan? It encourages people to speak with their loved ones about what matters most at the end of their life, including discussing and implementing culturally appropriate customs and traditions related to death and dying.

12/05/2025

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10 min
09/11/2024

INTERVIEW: Anti-slavery expert Fiona David

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

09/11/2024

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12 min

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