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Hundreds of overseas PhD students planning to study in areas critical to Australia’s future economy are waiting as long as three years to have their visas approved. Those impacted include people from countries such as Iran, China, India and Pakistan. Academics say they’re frustrated by the wait…

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute wants social media companies to broaden their labelling of state-linked accounts so audiences can more easily identify propaganda.

In 2018 and 2019, seven suspected suicides in Melbourne's City of Whittlesea left local authorities deeply concerned. The incidents had disturbing similarities and there was evidence some of the women had experienced family violence prior to their deaths. SBS News was the first to report on the cluster in June 2020 and a subsequent coronial investigation into the deaths of four of the South Asian women urged for more to be done to help vulnerable women in the community. As SB…

Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan has established a plan for a new national anti-racism framework and is calling on the federal government to support and implement it.   Mr Tan released a concept paper on Wednesday setting out the main elements of the proposed plan, noting in the paper he was "deeply troubled by the resurgence in racism being experienced in Australia and across the globe".  In a message released alongside the paper ahead o…

New research has found 45 per cent of migrant rideshare and food delivery workers said they were unaware they were not entitled to workers' compensation insurance when they signed up.

Wan Rosaizam Ahmad, known to her friends and family as Rosya, understands just how dangerous working as a delivery rider can be.   The 41-year-old Malaysian national, who lives in Melbourne, recounts the moment she feared her life was over when her electric bicycle collided with the door of a parked car as it swung open into the bike path she was riding in.  “I was scared for my life, there was pain all over my body and I have suffered recurring headaches ever since,” she…

Exclusive: A Brisbane woman says Uber is not adequately dealing with allegations of sexual harassment and is calling on the rideshare company to prioritise safety.

In the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China, a move to reduce teaching in the Mongolian language in favour of Mandarin has led to rare mass protests and concern among the Mongolian diaspora in Australia.

Chinese woman Zoo* is living in Melbourne on a working holiday visa. She says her parents have been taken to the police station in China every week regarding her online activities.

Exclusive: A cluster of suspected suicides among Indian women in one area of Melbourne in 2018 and 2019 is concerning authorities, with family violence concerns linked to several of the deaths.