SBS News In Depth

SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with Belinda Allen from the Commonwealth Bank who is now predicting an end to the Reserve Bank cutting cycle, following a stronger than expected rise in September quarter inflation, while Sally Auld from NAB says there's still a chance of a cut in May; plus a look at the market reaction with Jun Bei Liu fom TenCap.

The Western Australian Governor has apologised for his predecessor's role in a state-led violent attack against Noongar men, women and children almost 200 years ago, known as the Pinjarra massacre. Descendants of the Bindjareb Noongar people received the long-awaited apology saying it is a meaningful step towards reconciliation.

Voters in the Netherlands have begun casting their ballots in the country’s general election. Polls suggest the hard-right anti-immigration party led by Geert Wilders is likely to win the most seats, however that doesn’t mean he’ll lead a new government. The campaign has been dominated by housing and immigration with concern about asylum seekers being scapegoated.

SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with Australia's Special Envoy to Southeast Asia Nicholas Moore to find out how regional leaders feel about doing business with Australians as he attends the ASEAN summit; plus Michael Jenneke from UBS Management takes a look at the day's sharemarket action as CSL and Wisetech shares crash.

The federal government will add a medicine for chronic kidney disease into the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. More than 65.000 Australians are expected to benefit from the cheaper access to Jardiance , also known as Empagliflozin.

Hurricane Melissa, a rare and powerful Category Five storm, is bearing down on Jamaica, threatening to be the island’s worst hurricane in more than a century. With winds near 280 kilometres an hour and up to a metre of rain forecast, the storm could cause catastrophic flooding. Authorities warn that the entire island is at risk, with Cuba and the Bahamas also in Melissa’s path later this week.

The long-awaited overhaul of Australia’s national environmental law is set to ignite Parliament this week, as the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) faces its first major reform in twenty-six years. This second attempt at a package, featuring an independent EPA and a new National Interest power, has already generated a political firestorm. The Opposition is demanding t...

A man and a young woman have been killed in a mine explosion near the outback town of Cobar in far western New South Wales. An investigation is underway into the cause of the underground blast, which has devastated the local community. Political leaders and mining unions say the tragedy highlights the urgent need to strengthen workplace safety in Australia’s mining industry.

Sudan’s civil war has entered a dangerous new phase as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seize the army’s last major base in Darfur. The fall of El-Fasher has sparked a humanitarian crisis, with thousands fleeing and aid groups warning of ethnic violence and starvation.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, otherwise known as the P-K-K, has announced it will withdraw its fighters from Turkiye after a decades-long insurgency. While the move has been welcomed by many, the P-K-K says it now wants to see Turkiye's government act in good faith to protect Kurdish rights and allow the group to enter mainstream politics.

SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with Elio D'Amato from EnviroInvest about why investors are increasingly optimistic of a US China trade deal ahead of leadership talks, as some global central banks prepare to cut interest rates this week.

Timor-Leste has officially joined ASEAN as its 11th member state – an achievement more than a decade in the making. The moment marks both a diplomatic triumph and a new chapter for the young nation forged from decades of struggle.

The Albanese government has handed Australian artists a major victory by definitively ruling out a controversial exemption that would have allowed tech companies free rein to mine creative work to train AI models. This decision, which was immediately praised as a "critical step in the right direction" by the creative sector, now paves the way for the Copyright and AI Reference Group to convene and...

The 47th annual ASEAN summit is underway in Malaysia, with talks expected to focus on trade and regional security - with a dash of US President Donald Trump. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is also attending and says his focus for the trip will be Australian jobs and security.

US and EU sanctions on Russia's largest oil companies this week has left refineries in China and India assessing their implications. Some sell refined products to Australia. But will the latest measures be able to capture Russia's shadow fleet that exploit sanction loopholes? Exclusive data shared with SBS has shown vessels transporting Russian crude oil and previously sanctioned by the Federal go...

One in five Australians, or around three-million adults, have low literacy or numeracy skills - and it can have a big impact on how people are able to engage in every day life. Programs are in place across the country to help people improve their skills and achieve their life goals. Including one in Tasmania, helping adults become work ready.

The prospect for an alien invasion of Earth has been flooding the Internet in recent weeks thanks to the object 3-I-ATLAS currently hurtling through our solar system which some have warned may be an alien spacecraft that can attack our planet. Spoiler alert - NASA says it isn't. But even so, the fears of alien invasion are nothing new: in the final years of the nineteenth century, in his novel War...

New data shows Australians experiencing homelessness are more likely to die from overdose, suicide or coronary heart disease, with potentially nine avoidable deaths every day. Data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has found that around 43,200 people with a history of homelessness died between 2012 and 2013 alone from these types of causes. The median age was 55 years, far lower...

The civil war in Sudan has been raging for two and a half years and has generated arguably the largest humanitarian crisis on the planet. Often called the forgotten war, the conflict has torn apart the Northeast African country of 50 million people leaving around 12 million displaced from their homes and often with very little access to food, clean water and medicine. Reena Ghelani is the CEO of P...

A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent them developing life-threatening allergies, a new US study has shown it's making a big difference in the real world. The study has found about 60,000 children in the United States have avoided developing peanut allergies after new guidance was issued in 2015 about when to introduce the allergen to you...

Anangu traditional owners have marked 40 years since Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park was handed back to their people. The handback was a landmark moment for Aboriginal land rights in Australia and a powerful recognition of the enduring connection between First Nations peoples and Country. The official celebrations have included a trip to London for a delegation of nine Anangu traditional owners, wh...

The ASX-200 has ended the week in the red, as investors await the outcome of Donald Trump’s much-anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit next week. Attention is also turning to the release of key September CPI data in the US, despite the government shutdown.

The only soldier ever prosecuted over a massacre of civilians in 1972 that became known as Bloody Sunday has been found not guilty of murder and attempted murder charges. The presiding judge at Belfast County Court has ruled that while he was satisfied the former paratrooper was among a group of soldiers who shot at civilians after a civil rights march, there was not enough evidence to convict him...

Australia is deploying one ADF liaison officer to a new US-led coordination centre in Israel to support the fragile Gaza ceasefire and President Trump's 20-point peace plan. However, a local analyst has heavily criticised the contribution as purely symbolic.

More aid is entering Gaza under a fragile ceasefire, but humanitarian agencies say it remains far from enough to meet the needs of its starving population. But discussions on how to achieve – and maintain – peace have coincided with Israel's Knesset narrowly advancing a bill to apply Israeli law to the occupied West Bank. It's being widely condemned as a preliminary step to approving total annexat...