Lin Evlin

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…

New South Wales has been warned that a fresh COVID-19 surge is beginning, prompted by the growing prominence of new sub-variants.

New South Wales has been warned that a fresh COVID-19 surge is beginning, prompted by the growing prominence of new sub-variants.

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

Earlier this year, SBS News brought you a story about a cluster of suicides with disturbing similarities among South Asian women in the City of Whittlesea, located in the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne. The Victorian Coroner's court has now acknowledged the concerning trend, urging more…

Social media in Australia is awash with political messaging, and users of the popular Chinese messaging app, WeChat, are also seeing political advertising, and misinformation, on the platform. Experts in Chinese social media believe that unlike the 2019 federal election, much of the misinformation on the app, which is used by an estimated three million people in Australia, is being shared in private groups. “Private groups on WeChat are like Whatsapp group chats - unless you are invited…

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…