Weekend One on One

Cory Alpert is a PhD researcher at the University of Melbourne looking at the impact of AI on democracy - but he has a wealth of experience in the world of American politics. He served for three years in the White House during the Biden-Harris Administration working in the Executive Office of the President. He's worked on three Presidential campaigns, including for Hillary Clinton in 2016. and as...

Mahendra Chaudhry was Fiji's first Prime Minister of Indian ancestry, but in 2000 he and most his cabinet were held hostage for almost two months, after a civilian coup backed by a faction of the military and led by George Speight stormed parliament. Since the 1980s there have been four coups in Fiji - each with links to ethnic tension between Indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians. Mr Chaudhry is th...

A fluffy native mouse and five other Australian species have been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List. According to the Australian Conservation Foundation, Australia’s escalating extinction crisis, is being fuelled by climate change, deforestation, and outdated conservation laws. SBS's Essam Al-Ghalib was joined by the Australian Conservation Foundation’s nationa...

SBS' Ciara Hain spoke with settlement service provider AMES' public affairs manager Laurie Nowell.

With campaigning for the US election entering its final stages, record numbers of voters have submitted their ballots early, across a number of crucial battleground states. Early voting was a key sticking point for the Trump campaign in 2020, which made unproven claims of vote rigging. For more about the final sprint to the White House, reporter Tys Occhiuzzi spoke with Lee Drutman, a senior fello...

Senator Lidia Thorpe has defended her protest during the King's visit to Canberra. She says her calls for a treaty have garnered international attention, and has furthered the national conversation. But the headlines remain squarely on her eligibility as a senator. Listen to her full interview with SBS Chief Political Correspondent Anna Henderson about the controversy.

SBS is launching a new series on the US election called US ELECTION UNPLUGGED. The first episode explores some of the challenges involved in how we report on the candidates to help voters make up their minds. Debbie Groarke talks with Political Communication Professor Andrea Carson on the issues that the media confronts when covering on politics and elections.

In a rare wide-ranging interview ahead of King Charles' visit, Governor-General Sam Mostyn tells SBS News about her plans to show the monarch "a modern Australia" and delves into the "strain of our times" many communities have been feeling. The Governor-General is speaking here to Sandra Fulloon.

A new report by the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group has outlined how the government’s risk and security agenda fails to include climate change, leaving the country and the population vulnerable.

There's been a fair share of personal attacks and vitriol between US Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris as the US election nears. Many have become immune to vitriolic remarks in US politics, particularly from Trump, but why is this behaviour more common in US politics compared to Australia? SBS' Catriona Stirrat speaks to Associate Professor David Smith from t...

Boeing's Starliner mission to the International Space station has not been their finest moment. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore first travelled to the station in early June aboard a Boeing Starliner spacecraft for what was expected to be a week-long test mission. But issues with helium leaks and malfunctioning thrusters forced NASA to decide Starliner’s problems were not well enough und...

Nearly 50,000 union members working at America's East and Gulf Coast ports have started industrial action, slowing or stopping America’s imports and exports. It could become the country’s most disruptive work stoppage in decades - but it could have a flow on effect to trade around the world, including here in Australia. What the union is asking for, and what the US Maritime Alliance which represen...

As the big two supermarkets are being brought to court over allegedly misleading consumers with their discounts, what could this mean for our food and grocery sector? SBS' Catriona Stirrat spoke with Allan Fels, the former chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - the very governing body that is alleging Coles and Woolworths have broken Australian consumer law. Fels raises poin...

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has urged Israel against a ground invasion of Lebanon, and has called for Australians to leave the country whilst commercial flights are still available. SBS Chief Political Correspondent Anna Henderson spoke to Senator Wong, who is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly

Intense Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon have killed at least 492 people in the past 24 hours, making it the country's deadliest day since its brutal civil war ended more than 30 years ago. Lebanon's Health Ministry says at least 35 children are among the dead. There've been widespread strikes - hitting about 1600 sites, so far, targetting dozens of towns and villages in southern Lebanon, as well...

Alex Ryvchin, the co-Chief Executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, speaks to SBS Chief Political Correspondent Anna Henderson about Australia abstaining from this week's UN vote on Israel and the Palestinian territories.

It's Dementia Action week, and Alyssa Gamaldo-Roddy is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Institute for Engaged Aging at Clemson University in South Carolina in the United States. Her research focuses on identifying adverse and protective factors associated with cognitive functioning, particularly in populations at risk for Alzheimer’s and related dementia. She also discusses how agin...

Could improving the quality of Australia's political debate, come from the approach of what a new nonprofit is calling "finding uncommon ground"? The founder of Amplify, Paul Bassat, spoke with Biwa Kwan.

Amid a labour shortage in the sectors like the construction industry, there has been a call to support the recruitment and retention of female tradies. SBS speaks to Jo Farrell, the founder of not-for-profit Build Like A Girl.

Donald Trump’s former communications adviser Anthony Scaramucci is backing US Vice President Kamala Harris to win November’s presidential election. However, he’s warned that Republican contender Donald Trump is a dangerous man and there will be problems for the world if the former president wins. Mr Scaramucci briefly worked for Mr Trump before being sacked in 2017. The US investor runs hedge fund...

A new organisation has launched in Australia with the aim of tackling political polarisation and division. Amplify says it has deliberately chosen to stand apart from affiliation to a political party to encourage national debate on community-driven solutions to policy challenges like housing and education. Kaytetye woman from Central Australia Rona Glynn-McDonald is a board member of Amplify. She...

The Israeli military and Palestinian militant group Hamas has agreed to zoned three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza strip to allow for the delivery of around 640,000 polio vaccinations for children. The World Health Organisation says the vaccination campaign is due to start on Sunday and the agreement is for the pauses to take place between 6am and 3pm. To understand more about the developments...

Retired NASA Astronaut Colonel Michael Fossum served as commander of the International Space Station and has spent over 194 days in space and logged 48 hours spacewalk time in his 19 years with NASA. Boeing astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, have had their test mission aboard the ISS extended to February due to issues with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft's propulsion system. NASA and Boei...

The government will limit the number of international student commencements to 270,000 next year, with 145,000 places for publicly funded universities. Minister Jason Clare says the caps will ensure the sector is sustainable into the future whilst the government tries to limit overseas migration to Australia after a 73 per cent increase on arrivals in the last financial year. Universities have str...

Libby Kosmala competed in 12 Paralympics between 1972 and 2016. She won 13 medals, nine of them gold, and broke four world records. At her final Paralympics in 2016, Libby was the oldest competitor of any nation. Growing up she says she was always a good talker. She’s speaking here with Tee Mitchell, who asked how this remarkable sporting story began.