Episodes

  • Weekend One On One: the Executive Council of Australian Jewry's Alex Ryvchin

    Weekend One On One: the Executive Council of Australian Jewry's Alex Ryvchin
    Sep 20 2024
    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.
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    5 mins
  • INTERVIEW: What factors can lead to cognitive decline and dementia?

    INTERVIEW: What factors can lead to cognitive decline and dementia?
    Sep 16 2024
    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 aging has changed from generation to generation as information has become more readily available with the development of technology.
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    5 mins
  • INTERVIEW: 'Democracy under siege': Could a new grassroots project be the antidote?

    INTERVIEW: 'Democracy under siege': Could a new grassroots project be the antidote?
    Sep 14 2024
    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.
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    16 mins
  • INTERVIEW: Meet the figure championing women to become tradies in a male-dominated environment

    INTERVIEW: Meet the figure championing women to become tradies in a male-dominated environment
    Sep 13 2024
    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.
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    12 mins
  • INTERVIEW: Former Trump adviser tells SBS he's backing Kamala Harris

    INTERVIEW: Former Trump adviser tells SBS he's backing Kamala Harris
    Sep 6 2024
    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 SkyBridge Capital and he was in Australia this week to attend the Association of Superannuation Funds investment summit. He says the US central bank has waited too long to cut official interest rates and that’s put the US economy at risk of a recession. But Mr Scaramucci told reporter Sue Lannin that he expects three US rate cuts this year.
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    10 mins
  • INTERVIEW: Rona Glynn-McDonald on Amplifying the quality of Australia's political debate

    INTERVIEW: Rona Glynn-McDonald on Amplifying the quality of Australia's political debate
    Aug 30 2024
    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 has told Biwa Kwan the group is taking a different approach to finding policy solutions, including in areas like Indigenous affairs after the defeat of last year's Voice to Parliament referendum.
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    10 mins
  • INTERVIEW: Polio crisis in Gaza pauses the war

    INTERVIEW: Polio crisis in Gaza pauses the war
    Aug 30 2024
    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 surrounding polio in Gaza, SBS's Catalina Florez has been speaking with Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia, Jennifer Tierney.
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    7 mins
  • INTERVIEW: Stuck in space for Christmas - and beyond

    INTERVIEW: Stuck in space for Christmas - and beyond
    Aug 29 2024
    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 Boeing will test and determine the capability of the capsule to safely return to Earth, but currently, the plan is for the two astronauts to return to Earth next year in a SpaceX capsule, and not the Boeing spacecraft.
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    5 mins