Dom Vukovic

Northern NSW residents speak of their trauma as the floods encroached on their homes, with one man recounting a “close call” as water lapped at his neck.

Bronze statues of Aboriginal leaders Bennelong and Barangaroo have been unveiled in Sydney. The busts, which frame the door at St Patrick’s Catholic Church in The Rocks, were unveiled by NSW Governor Margaret Beazley who urged Australians to gain a greater understanding of their achievements.  Husband and wife and leaders of the Eora people, Bennelong and Barangaroo were communicators and mediators between their people and the British in the late 18th an…

Jan Harris was evacuated from her rental accommodation in Bega, on the New South Wales south coast, after already losing her family home to a major bushfire in the nearby town of Tathra the year before.  “I really don’t think you ever get over it. Like any grief, you learn to live with it,” she says.  “Some days it’s worse.” It's thinking about the things she lost that hurts the most.  “I have nothing of my children of whe…

A grassroots campaign is calling for big business to better support the local music industry ... and put an end to annoying hold music. Companies are being asked to prioritise Australian songs for their hold music above license-free generic tunes. It comes at a time when the industry is crying out f…

With the music industry having been catastrophically hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic, one woman has come up with an idea that could both put money in the pockets of local performers and improve customer wait experiences on the phone.

With the music industry having been catastrophically hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic, one woman has come up with an idea that could both put money in the pockets of local performers and improve customer wait experiences on the phone.

Durga Owen is a lecturer at Western Sydney University, but today she's driving around her neighbourhood delivering essential food hampers during the COVID-19 lockdown to help others in need. “And that means we mask up, we get out there, and we shop for people and drop it off at their door,” she tells SBS News. “We don’t want anyone forgotten, we don’t want anyone going hungry or anyone feeling like they’re alone through this lockdown in our area.&#x…

This year's national census will be the most inclusive and accessible survey yet, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The rollout of a raft of assistive technologies on the census website promise to provide extra support and resources for people who are deaf or vision-impaired and would like to submit their forms online without having to seek additional help.  “The whole idea of the census is to make it as easy as possible to complete and make it as less of a…

Loghman Sawari was 17 when he first entered Australia's immigration detention network. Eight years on, he's still there. "It is painful. It has been eight years of my life. It is already gone," he told SBS News from the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation (BITA) centre. A member of Iran's Ahwazi Arab minority, Mr Sawari fled Iran in 2013 after his family was targeted by government forces. His brothers had been jailed by intelligence officers and a c…

Monday marks eight years since the Australian government’s offshore detention program came into force. The anniversary has sparked renewed calls for asylum seekers languishing in detention to be set free.