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SBS News In Depth
Episodes — page 97
- Remarkable survival story prompts reminders on travel safely in Australia's outback
Authorities and experts are urging travellers in Australia to follow critical safety and survival measures when venturing into remote areas. It follows the case of a young German b…
- The final farewell isn’t easy. This growing service helped Vibha and thousands like her
Death confronts 180,000 people in Australia and their families every year. Yet few have prepared a will or left clear instructions about their end-of-life choices. To help ease the…
- Law firm lodges complaint against Qantas over customer data hack
A legal complaint has been lodged against Qantas by an Australian law firm over the data hack that saw the personal details of scores of customers exposed. Qantas now says it's bee…
- ASX hits record again despite global uncertainties & Australia's soft fertility rate
SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with Mahjabeen Zaman from ANZ about why the Australian and US sharemarket hit yet another record despite ongoing global uncertainties an…
Pressure on Putin, Syria clashes & what Albanese told XiRussia faces another Trump deadline to end the war in Ukraine, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wraps up his trip to China, and violence flares again in Syria as Israeli airstrikes…
- Condemnation follows strike on Gaza church
Israel has acknowledged striking Gaza’s only Catholic church, killing three Palestinian civilians and injuring ten others. The attack has drawn condemnation from the Vatican, the U…
- New babies born free of devastating genetic diseases using DNA from three people
Eight healthy babies have been born in Britain with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help mothers avoid passing devastating rare diseases to…
- Calls to criminalise possession and use of AI tools that create child abuse material
There are calls for the federal government to criminalise the possession and use of Artificial Intelligence tools designed to create child abuse material. Child safety advocates sa…
- Syria government and Druze minority leaders announce new ceasefire as Israel continues strikes
Syrian authorities have announced a new ceasefire agreement for the southern province of Sweida following days of fighting, but it remains uncertain whether peace will prevail afte…
- Jobless rises to 4.3% increasing rate cut chance & diversity on boardrooms
SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with Nick Stenner from Bank of America about the rise in Australia's unemployment rate to 4.3% to find out what it says about the labour…
- Australian invention could revolutionise minefield clearance
Twenty-eight years after Diana, Princess of Wales drew the world's attention to the impacts of landmines on war-affected countries, an Australian innovation is revolutionising de-m…
- The man we know as Uncle Charlie
Two years after the Broome air raid—when Japanese Zero fighter planes attacked and more than 80 lives were lost—local Bardi man Charles D’Antoine was awarded a medal by the Kingdom…
- Men jailed for felling UK's iconic Sycamore Gap tree
Two men have each been jailed for more than four years for cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree in the United Kingdom. The tree is a much-loved and well-known global landmark whose d…
- Death of outback killer leaves victim's family without answers
The man who murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio, Bradley John Murdoch, has died of throat cancer. The killer's silence on what he did with Mr Falconio's body means his famil…
- The Bay is on Fire
On a hot autumn day in Broome, 1942 a young Indigenous man named Charles D’Antoine is cleaning boat planes along Roebuck Bay. Charles, also known as Uncle Charlie to his loved ones…
- UN details deaths of Palestinians seeking food aid in Gaza
The United Nations human rights office says at least 875 people have been killed while seeking aid in Gaza in a month, with most killed in the vicinity of US-Israeli backed aid sit…
- Data error feared to put thousands of Afghans in danger
Thousands of Afghan nationals have been secretly relocated to the United Kingdom after a major data breach in 2022 compromised their identities. The resettlement scheme was kept se…
- Could it be meningococcal? Australia approaches the high-risk disease's peak season
Experts are warning young adults and parents of young children to be aware of early symptoms of meningococcal disease, as Australia enters its peak season. The bacterial infection…
The pros and cons of AI in parentingVerity Tuck and Mike Fraser have developed an AI assistant for parents. They're early adopters of emerging technologies but warn they don't come without risks. In this episode, the…
- 'Bullying, yelling, sexual harassment, underpaid': study finds one in three young workers are ripped off
A third of young workers in Australia are being paid less than $15 an hour - that's almost ten dollars below the minimum hourly wage. It's one of the key findings of a Melbourne Un…
