Felicity Davey

Five years ago, all 298 people on board MH17 died - including 38 Australians - and now many of the families say they hope the trial of the perpetrators will finally reveal the truth behind the incident. Malaysia Airline flight MH17 was travelling between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur in 2014 when it was hit by a missile over part of eastern Ukraine held by pro-Russian rebels. On Wednesday, international investigators charged three Russians and a Ukrainian with murder over the shooting down of…

Tamil and Macedonian are among five new languages to be taught in NSW schools from next year.  The NSW public school language curriculum has also been expanded to also offer Hindi, Punjabi and Persian, taking the number of languages on offer to 69. Demographer Bernard Salt said the additions reflected modern Australian society, citing figures showing that 39 per cent of Sydney's population was born in another country. "We need to be world's best practice at learning languages…

Thea Caldbeck-Moore and Wendy Hora have been together for 40 years. Ms Hora is now her partner's carer, as Ms Caldbeck-Moore waits in line to be approved for a home care package. “I would love it to materialise tomorrow because we've needed this package way back in August when Thea first had her brain injury,” Ms Hora told SBS News. “The tumour has upset her executive function, so she doesn’t cope very well with day-to-day tasks.” While the pair are h…

The Tampa affair, as it became known, was an incident at sea in 2001 which changed Australia's policy toward asylum seekers. At the time, increasing numbers of people attempted to travel to Australia by boat to seek asylum. On 24 August 2001, a small wooden fishing boat, the Palapa 1, began to sink about 140 kilometres north of Christmas Island, off the far north coast of Western Australia, in what is considered international waters. Even though the boat was small, it was carrying 438 mainl…

The Adaptive Clothing Collective has made its runway debut, bringing inclusive clothing to the forefront of Australian Fashion Week.

A psychologist who experienced mental ill-health believes pop-up ads could help people when they’re at their most vulnerable.

Annie had always wanted to be a teacher but says the job was too emotionally draining to be sustainable. She’s not the only one, with empathy fatigue on the rise.

<b><i>&nbsp;SBS On Demand.</i></b> In November 2019 as bushfires ravaged Australia&apos;s east coast, Ed Roy and his wife Cheryl Laffernis were at their five-acre home surrounded by bush, watching nervously as the blaze approached. The ferocious fire had already crossed containment lines close by at Bobin near Taree, on the NSW mid-north coast, and was gaining momentum. Ed and Cheryl were sitting glued to their Fires Near Me app when they received a call from neighbours. &#x201C;They said, &apos…

Sorry can mean nothing, or it can mean everything. Here three women share how their lives have been shaped by the presence – or absence – of that one small word.

<b><i> SBS On Demand.</i></b> Landscape photographer Dani Watson loved posting photos of stunning, remote and unusual locations. Then she realised she was fuelling a dangerous selfie-taking culture. Within hours of posting an image on social media, she would receive a flood of messages from followers. &quot;They&#x2019;d ask: &apos;where did you take it?&apos; &apos;How did you get there?&apos; &apos;Can you pinpoint it on Google Maps?&apos;&quot; she told Insight. &quot;I realised I was sort of…