Episodios

  • Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei defends missile strike on Israel, vows continued support for regional allies

    Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei defends missile strike on Israel, vows continued support for regional allies
    Oct 5 2024
    Iran’s Supreme Leader has pledged continued support for regional allies fighting Israel, defending Iran’s 1st of October missile strike on Israeli military targets. This comes as Israel battles Hezbollah in Lebanon and as the US targets Iran-aligned Houthi forces in Yemen, as civilian casualties mount in Lebanon and Gaza.
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    7 m
  • INTERVIEW: Why do we often witness vitriol and personal attacks in US politics?

    INTERVIEW: Why do we often witness vitriol and personal attacks in US politics?
    Oct 4 2024
    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 the University of Sydney's United States Studies Centre for this edition of Weekend One on One.
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    11 m
  • From London to remote Flinders Island: the phenomenon of ParkRun

    From London to remote Flinders Island: the phenomenon of ParkRun
    Oct 4 2024
    It started in London two decades ago and spread to 23 countries, including Australia. These days, around six million people participate in the global phenomenon that is Parkrun.
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    3 m
  • What went wrong with Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft?

    What went wrong with Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft?
    Oct 4 2024
    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 understood for the space agency to allow Williams and Wilmore to return to Earth on it. Jason Rabinovitch is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. Before that he worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for more than six years
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    4 m
  • Industry and activists rally to tackle biodiversity crisis

    Industry and activists rally to tackle biodiversity crisis
    Oct 4 2024
    Australia is facing biodiversity risks, prompting industry and environmental leaders to take action. A world-first Global Nature Positive Summit will address urgent need for nature protection and restoration. The federal government has re-affirmed its commitment to collaborate with all sectors in tackling biodiversity loss.
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    8 m
  • Government resists - for now - calls for Iran's ambassador to be expelled

    Government resists - for now - calls for Iran's ambassador to be expelled
    Oct 4 2024
    The Coalition has called for the Iranian ambassador to be expelled from Australia following a post praising Hezbollah's leader after he was killed in an Israeli strike.The government has condemned the comments by Ahmad Sadeghi, but is not looking to remove him from the country.
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    4 m
  • Israel orders residents of towns in southern Lebanon to evacuate

    Israel orders residents of towns in southern Lebanon to evacuate
    Oct 4 2024
    Explosions have been reported near Beirut's main airport in southern Lebanon, as Israeli forces continue targeting Hezbollah infrastructure. Israel has urged residents of more than 70 towns in southern Lebanon, including Nabatieh, to evacuate amid growing military activity.
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    7 m
  • Have you noticed your favourite product shrinking? You're not imagining things

    Have you noticed your favourite product shrinking? You're not imagining things
    Oct 3 2024
    Supermarkets have been put on notice over a practice known as 'shrinkflation', which is a practice that is rife in the industry and is when a product is downsized but the price remains the same or even increases. To combat the tactic - the government is now seeking to strengthen unit pricing codes, making price and volume labels more readable, prominent and comparable, and introduce new penalties for those supermarkets - doing the wrong thing.
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    5 m