SBS News In Depth

SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with Julia Lee from Shaw and Partners about the days market action, including a rate rise from another global central bank, it's implications for Australia, and why more investors are turning to fixed income products.

A quarter of Australia, or more than 190 million hectares of land is now safeguarded under an Indigenous Protected Area. But unlike a national park or marine reserve, IPAs are voluntarily declared and run by First Nations people. In the Torres Strait Islands this new approach is helping combat the effects of sea level rise by giving community a role in how they adapt to climate change. SBS travelled to Masig [[Ma-sig]] Island off Queensland's northern tip where key sites are already being lost to rising sea levels.

The federal government says Labor’s long-awaited immigration reforms are designed to bring net migration down, ease pressure on housing and close what it describes as loopholes in the visa system. But what does that look like for farmers, current international students and migrant workers?

As world leaders prepare to gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, conflicts are burning from Ukraine to the Middle East and Sudan. These wars may have different origins, but their consequences are increasingly crossing borders, testing alliances, disrupting trade and drawing other countries into their orbit. So, how will these tensions play out at this year's General Assembly?

Russia is holding parliamentary elections with little doubt about the outcome: the pro-Kremlin United Russia party is expected to retain its dominance. But with the vote taking place more than four years into the war in Ukraine, the election carries symbolic importance for President Vladimir Putin. Analysts say the Kremlin will use the result to demonstrate public support for the government and its military campaign, even as economic pressures, Ukrainian strikes inside Russia and signs of growing war fatigue test public sentiment. The podcast examines how the election is being managed, why anti-war voices have largely been excluded from the ballot, and what turnout, margins of victory and voter coercion may reveal about the state of Russian socie