SBS News In Depth

The Australian sharemarket rose 0.3 per cent as investors brace for what could be one of the most important interest rate decisions of the year for global markets. To explain, SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves spoke with Alice Shen, Portfolio Manager at VanEck.

As the government works to attract greater investment from AI companies, its commitment to strong copyright protections for Australian creatives has come into focus. An opt-out model is being considered, which would require copyright holders to take active steps to prevent their content being scraped and used to train AI. It comes as the government negotiates with big tech companies in an effort to attract investment and data centres.

As the nation celebrates seven decades of broadcast television, the industry also confronts questions about the future in an increasingly digital world. For more on this, we spoke with Dr Timothy Koskie, a post-doctoral research associate at The University of Sydney's Centre for AI Trust and Governance.

Over the weekend, an Australian athlete was pictured with faeces on her legs, after experiencing a bowel movement during a HYROX fitness competition in China. While such incidents are relatively common in high endurance sports, it has sparked heated debate and raised questions over hygiene and fairness in the competition. It's also prompted broader questions over the benefits, and the short and long term risks associated with pushing the physiological limits of the human body.

For nearly a century, Australians have believed that around 250,000 people lived here before colonisation. New research from a national team of academics suggests that number is far too low. They believe there could have been about 2.2 million Indigenous Australians living here before the British colonised the continent in 1788. SBS News reporter Josie Harvey spoke with Corey Bradshaw, a professor of global ecology at Flinders University, who co-led the research. He says the findings point to a devastating population decline by more than two million after 1788, driven by disease, violence and dispossession. Professor Bradshaw says understanding that history is vital to truth-telling, reconciliation and recognising the resilience of First Nations communities.