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Australia pauses for ANZAC dawn services

Australia

05:50
Trucks containing humanitarian aid wait to cross the border between Egypt and Gaza (AAP)

Aid trucks enter Gaza but humanitarian crisis is not easing

Middle East

05:14
YOORROOK JUSTICE COMMISSION VICTORIA

Report revives hope Indigenous stories can be truthfully told

Australia

04:08
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INTERVIEW: Bondi 'Bollard' Men speak with SBS French after their act of bravery

Australia

06:45
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INTERVIEW: Anthony Albanese on the Kokoda track

Politics

Cost of Living Secrets

Ricardo Gonçalves and Peggy Giakoumelos explore one area where consumers can make savings with an expert in the field. From supermarkets to rents, nutrition to petrol and so much more, learn about the strategies used to get you to spend more, and more importantly, what you can do, to spend less.

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Cost of Living Secrets: Supermarkets

Finance

07:54
REAL ESTATE AGENT STOCK

Soaring government spending on housing yet to ease rental crisis

Australia

08:10
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SBS On the Money: Inflation in the US reignites, so what does that mean for potential interest rates cuts?

Finance

11:10
KASY CHAMBERS ANGLICARE PRESSER

INTERVIEW: Kasy Chambers from Anglicare says Welfare payments are too low

Australia

07:43
HOUSING STOCK

Independent inquiry launched as Australia grapples with worst housing crisis on record

09:27
A person walks by a house in Melbourne.

SBS On the Money: Property listings and distressed sales rise as ASX takes a tumble

Finance

01:29
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Coming Soon: Cost of Living Secrets

12:48
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SBS On the Money: RBA shifts tone, as CBA predicts September rate cut

Finance

Hamas-Israel War Audio News

04:30
Israel Palestinians Campus Protests

Mass protests at US colleges as Israel orders new evacuations

World

06:07
Palestinians return to Khan Younis after the Israeli military pulled out troops from the southern Gaza Strip

Families seek bodies of loved ones in chaos of Khan Younis

Middle East

04:34
Israel Palestinians

US considers sanctions against IDF unit accused of West Bank abuses

World

04:06
epaselect USA CONGRESS UKRAINE ISRAEL

US House votes on long-awaited aid bill for Ukraine, Israel

World

04:39
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Three Australians joining challenge to Israeli sea blockade of Gaza

04:39
Security Council meeting and vote on resolution on Israel and Gaza conflict

US wields veto power in Security Council to deny full UN membership to Palestine

World

04:36
Israel Iran Mideast Tensions

Israel mulls response to Iran's weekend missile strike

World

04:43
Israeli Iron Dome air defence system launches to intercept missiles fired from Iran (AAP)

Restraint urged following Iranian missile attack

Middle East

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Australia

02:32
JOINT COUNTER TERRORISM PRESSER

Counter terrorism police arrest seven after Sydney church stabbing

Australia

04:18
AFP ASIO HEADS PRESS CLUB

'A cauldron of extremist poison': AFP and ASIO seek access to encrypted data on social media

Australia

09:40
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SBS On the Money: Surprise inflation result pushes back rate cut expectations

Finance

05:42
Westfield shopping centre.

"It’s really a weird feeling": French construction workers reflect on Bondi heroics

Australia

03:46
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UN refugee award recognises 'amazing' effort in empowering others

Immigration

05:35
WALLY LEWIS PRESS CLUB

Wally "The King" Lewis shares his story to plead for brain injury research funding

Health

12:56
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SBS On the Money: Housing crisis to get worse before it gets better

Finance

04:17
Bags of donated blood hanging in processing facility of blood bank

Slain Bondi guard remembered with nationwide blood donation drive

Australia

World

11:45
South Australia's Premier Peter Malinauskas gestures at a press conference.

SBS On the Money: South Australia leads nation's economy & shares rebound

Australia

02:34
Life Expectancy

Can't arrest our way out of drug crisis, say health experts

Australia

02:30
Bluey at Australia House

Every dog has its day - especially Australian TV favourite Bluey

Australia

03:52
INDONESIA PLASTIC POLLUTION

Nations call to reduce plastic use by 60% by 2040

Environment

05:08
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Midday News Bulletin 22 April 2024

World

05:33
SOCIAL MEDIA STOCK

Labor and Coalition join forces to curb misinformation after Sydney stabbing attacks

Australia

06:09
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Evening News Bulletin 21 April 2024

Australia

02:59
NORTH MACEDONIA VINYL

Video killed the radio star - but not vinyl, say record fans

Australia

Politics

14:05
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INTERVIEW: Anthony Albanese

Politics

08:51
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The curfew in Alice Springs is over; but did it work?

Indigenous

07:10
Australian relief stores being sent to Tonga following the 2022 volcanic eruption and tsunami (AAP)

Australia criticised over declining foreign aid investments

Australia

04:01
International Humanitarian Conference On Sudan - Paris

International community faces scrutiny over desperate humanitarian crisis in Sudan

Africa

05:36
Federal Court Justice Michael Lee has found Bruce Lehrmann most likely raped Brittany Higgins (AAP)

Court rules that Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins

Australia

08:39
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INTERVIEW: Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa talks exclusively to SBS

South America

04:52
ANTHONY ALBANESE QLD MEDIA CLUB ADDRESS

Manufacturing and Assange on the agenda in a busy day in politics

Australia

08:01
Anthony Albanese says Japan may be a technological partner in AUKUS (AAP)

Other countries keen to join AUKUS

Politics

Sport

03:31
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Kicking back: Melbourne inmates score life lessons

Australia

04:07
OLY Paris 2024 - 100 Days

Security, diversity and the Seine under scrutiny as Paris Olympics approach

World

05:06
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Free clinic supporting young basketball talent

Sport

04:41
SYDNEY KIDS RETURN TO POOL

Free swimming lessons aim to improve water safety in migrant communities

Immigration

03:42
Ruslan Malinowskyi (R) of Ukraine and Hakon Haraldsson (L) of Iceland in action (AAP)

Ukraine secures spot in Euro 2024 Football competition

Sport

03:37
Chelsea Kerr Soccer

Shock allegations against Sam Kerr took Football Australia by surprise

Australia

05:10
Marissa Williamson-Polhman qualified for the Paris Olympics in boxing.

'I found refuge in boxing': an Indigenous Australian woman making history at the Olympics

04:05
Female sailors competing in SailGP Sydney are seen with their head safety equipment in front of a view of the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge.

SailGP: Meet the women making waves in one of the world's fastest growing sports

Sport

COVID-19

06:57
Photo from exhibition titled 'Women of North Korea – The Quiet Transformation'.

The 'quiet transformation' of women in North Korea

03:24
Teenage girl covering her face and crying on a couch, while her mother stroking her on a head.

Younger Australians are the loneliest group according to a new survey

05:10
HOSPITAL COVID19 STOCK

JN.1 variant triggers COVID-19 surge

Illness

07:47
COVID lockdown in Melbourne in 2020

What did COVID cost Australia's health service?

COVID-19

03:13
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INTERVIEW: Epidemiologist James Trauer from Monash University

Illness

06:39
Australian Open Djokovic

Report confirms feared barriers to legal services for migrants during COVID pandemic

Australia

08:03
Long COVID causes symptoms like fatigue, shortness of breath and brain fog (Getty)

Long COVID lingers: Australia's quest for answers

Health

06:52
USA NOBEL PRIZE

How a photocopier changed the world: Nobel Prize in medicine goes to COVID vaccine duo

Health

Immigration

04:55
Amnesty International UK Call For Rejection Of Rwanda Bill London

UK Parliament passes Rwanda bill deporting asylum seekers

Europe

07:06
Masarrat Imam at the sewing circle in Sydney (SBS-Sandra Fulloon).jpg

One third of Australians say they’re lonely. This is how Masarrat found new friends

Life

05:30
Activists protest with a placard reading 'EU mass murder' against the Migration and Asylum package (AAP)

EU Migration and Asylum rules go through - but it's taken a decade.

Europe

05:52
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Starting over: the community group helping newly arrived refugees

Immigration

06:35
Nadia Khan at Foodlab in Sydney (SBS Fulloon).jpg

Nadia was discouraged from working in her homeland. In Australia, her business is busy catering for Eid

Immigration

06:02
Mo Nabaie, working at the CERES warehouse (SBS-Sandra Fulloon).jpg

Mo risked his life to get here. Now he’s working with a project helping others like himself

Immigration

05:55
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles and Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil stand next to each other.

Labor's controversial deportation bill blocked and referred to an inquiry

Immigration

04:34
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Thousands trapped for years in a 'fast-track' visa system

Politics

Human Rights

06:53
Overlooking Alice Springs from Anzac Hill (Source: Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association)

INTERVIEW: Alice Springs Mayor Matt Paterson on what happens now after youth curfew

Indigenous

03:56
Chris Sprake stands in front of the drop-in zone where food is distributed to those in need.

Wealth inequality gap growing in Australia, according to new study

Australia

05:40
People from North and South Korea singing together (SBS).jpg

No DMZ here: bringing North and South Koreans together

Australia

04:42
Activists of Climate Seniors from Switzerland talk to the media outside the European Court of Human Rights (AAP)

Climate inaction by governments ruled to be a human rights violation

Climate change

24:48
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INTERVIEW: "I hate my life now..."; this was Yusuf Zahab's terrifying experience in a Kurdish jail

Human Rights

04:34
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Bring Yusuf home, says former prisoner in Iran, Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Politics

23:14
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INTERVIEW: Former UN Special Rapporteur Fionnuala Ní Aoláin on the Syrian prisons holding Australians

Human Rights

07:32
ASIO boss Mike Burgess (AAP)

How secret should our government's secrets be?

Politics

Ukraine Crisis

05:34
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Three Seas Summit in Lithuania

Ukraine energy grid under seige by Russia

Europe

05:05
Students clean debris from Kyiv academy damaged by Russian shelling in Ukraine.

Ukrainians invited to file claims for war damages with newly established register

World

05:50
Politics - NATO Ceremony - Washington D.C

75 years on, has NATO gained more relevance?

Politics

11:45
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Interview: New "geopolitical era" brings Finland and Australia closer

06:43
President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting, discussing measures in response to the terrorist attacks at the Crocus City Hall (AAP)

President Putin continues to hint at Ukrainian involvement in terrorist attack

Europe

04:24
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Democracy under threat: Conflict poses threat to world audio says Zelenskyy

Politics

09:21
President Putin remains in charge - so what does that mean for Russia and the world

INTERVIEW: William Partlett on what to expect from six more years of a Putin Presidency

Politics

04:13
Incumbent President Vladimir Putin is set to remain President for another six years (AAP)

President Putin becomes Russia's longest-serving leader since Stalin

Europe

Indigenous

05:13
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'Survivors from a moment in time': Ancient spears handed back

Indigenous

05:09
Senior ranger with River Murray & Malley Aboriginal Corporation, Lucy Sumner, inspects a riverland tree, with Indigenous ranger Thomas Kurt in the background (Peta Doherty).jpg

South Australia's Riverland region bursting back to life after floods

Australia

03:57
RECIFE, INFLUENZA VACCINATION

Overcrowded housing under scrutiny amid influenza outbreak

Australia

13:58
More people die from drug related incidents than traffic accidents (Getty)

First Nations people especially vulnerable to drug-related deaths

Indigenous

02:40
ELECTION16 MALCOLM TURNBULL BRISBANE

Indigenous-led businesses boosting Australia's economy

Australia

16:55
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Who we are: How learning Wiradjuri helped saved Geoff's life

Life

05:11
Smoking linked to premature births

Authorities try to lower Indigenous smoking rates in Far North Queensland

Australia

06:07
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Archaeologists upend what we thought we knew about early Indigenous Australians

Indigenous

Voice to Parliament

04:34
SA Voice candidate Melissa Thompson (SBS-Peta Doherty).jpg

South Australian Voice to Parliament: 'A fresh bridge we can walk on'

Indigenous

05:44
Australian Electoral Commission officals at a pre poll centre for the Voice Referendum

The Voice referendum dominated Australian politics in 2023

Politics

03:35
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Yes campaigners break their silence over Voice referendum result

Indigenous

24:12
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INTERVIEW: Opposition frontbencher Paul Fletcher speaks to SBS News

Politics

04:44
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to Skills Minister Brendan O’Connor after a visit to Canberra Institute of Technology (AAP)

Government aims to head off skills shortage with TAFE funding

Politics

03:44
Nationals leader David Littleproud (AAP)

Post-Voice referendum politicking emerges as parliament resumes

Indigenous

08:34
ANTHONY ALBANESE VOICE REFERENDUM ADDRESS

Indigenous advocates mourn loss of the Voice

Australia

04:33
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Australians reject Indigenous Voice

Australia

04:12
VOICE REFERENDUM CANBERRA

Millions voting in referendum for first time - but democracy sausages a familiar sight

Australia

05:42
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Campaigns make final push to engage voters ahead of Voice referendum

Indigenous

04:22
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Voting on the Voice: what you can and can't do at polling places

Indigenous

03:59
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Revisiting a referendum divide - 56 years on

Indigenous

Environment

03:44
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Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef is 'a wake up call'

Environment

04:21
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Surrogate mothers helping sea otters pups return to the wild

Environment

05:49
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Sujan’s project helps disadvantaged students get online. And it has other benefits, too

Life

15:00
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INTERVIEW: Patricia Scotland warns some Pacific Island countries may disappear

Climate change

05:33
Climate Resilient Farming

Farmers switch to 'natural' farming methods for resilience to extreme weather

Environment

06:13
sydney rain

Heavy rainfall lashes Australia's eastern coast

11:49
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Who are the people taking their governments to court over climate inaction?

06:41
The cracked bed of a water canal between Pooncarie and Menindee (AAP)

When the river runs dry: megadroughts on the cards in Australia, new report warns

Climate change

Life, Disability, Welfare and More

23:38
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The Dad Whose Sons Survived

20:02
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Who we are: Code switching - What is it and why do we do it?

Australia

05:33
A Qantas plane sits on the tarmac (AAP)

Qantas reassures customers amid air travel disruptions due to conflict

Australia

06:56
A damaged car outside the Christ the Good Shepherd church in Wakely in western Sydney

Faith leaders, PM calling for respect, community harmony

Australia

13:42
US AUSTRALIA METH IMPORTATION

Is Australia winning 'the war on drugs'?

Australia

11:46
Opioids Prescribing

Opioid use in Australia: have government restrictions avoided the crisis faced in the USA?

Australia

07:58
Police officers and vehicles arrive at the Christ The Good Shepherd Church in the suburb of Wakeley in Sydney.

Albanese: 'There is no place for violence in our community'

Australia

20:13
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The Age Positivity Champion

Culture, Arts & Entertainment

07:28
Fans of BTS gather to celebrate the 10th debut anniversary of the K-pop band (AAP)

Step inside the world of mega-fandom

Arts

25:20
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The Woman who outlived her abuser

15:03
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Who we are: How accurately are we portrayed on our screens?

Culture

20:11
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The Dad Bod Male Escort

19:30
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Who we are: Interracial dating and relationships in Australia

Relationships

25:19
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The Justice Seeking Mum

01:26
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Introducing Who We Are

Australia

06:15
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Music helped Yoshie recover from a car accident. She hopes her ‘hidden talent’ can help others to heal

Life

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