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Rena Sarumpaet

Rena Sarumpaet

Multimedia Journalist/News Anchor/Presenter/Business and Finance Reporter at SBS TV World News

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  • English
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  • International News
  • National News

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Sydney's youngest and oldest homeless people are living together in a unique project - SBS News

At a housing facility in the western Sydney suburb of Campbelltown, 69-year-old Colin and 23-year-old Molly are discovering a shared past. Through Colin’s books on World War II, it emerges that his father and Molly's great-grandfather were both survivors on the same torpedoed Japanese prisoner ship and were in the same prisoner-of-war camp. For student Molly, it’s a revelation that has unlocked fresh interest in her family history. “I'm speechless to know…
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The women making trauma teddybears to help bushfire-ravaged communi...

Volunteers are in overdrive across NSW knitting trauma teddies for children who have experienced trauma during this year's devastating bushfire season.  The Red Cross trauma teddy program has distributed over a million teddy bears since 1990, and for the volunteers at the Blue Mountains branch, it's a project close to home. "Everyone here has experienced bushfires, " Springwood trauma teddies co-ordinator Allison Primmer said. "They may not have lost their homes, bu…
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Older people in Australia want to be part of today's workforce, des...

After nearly eight weeks immersed in digital literacy, and mock interviews, jobseekers at the Sarina Russo Job Access centre in western Sydney have all the answers, at least to the stock interview questions. “I’ve learned so much,“ says 45-year-old systems analyst Hitesh Joshi during a break from one of the group training sessions.    He and the other participants – all aged 45 and over - are trying to remain hopeful about employment, despite challenges…
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This Melbourne artist survived 9/11. It made him live life to the f...

In his Collingwood art studio, life and death are juxtaposed in Michael Makatron’s painting of a big apple and a skull. Days before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, he dismisses the symbolism. "It’s a coincidence,” he says; the work was commissioned by a collector. But the themes - of life, death and regrowth - are part of that unforgettable morning in September 2001. Makatron was a 21-year-old on an art scholarship in New York City, happy to have found a community ar…
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How Turkey's free-falling currency is impacting people in Australia

Melbourne woman Vildan Ozer and her husband Alex have mixed feelings planning a long-delayed trip home to Turkey to visit family. There’s the usual traveller’s delight at a favourable exchange rate: in less than three months, the Turkish lira has dropped more than 40 per cent against the Australian dollar. One dollar now buys more than nine and a half lira, up from six lira. “We’ll probably be going away to stay at a nice hotel a bit longer than we originally planned,…
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Australian homeowners facing 'difficult day' with RBA rate rise exp...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has described the Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to lift the cash rate to 0.85 per cent as "very difficult news" as Australian homeowners face the largest hike since 2000. The announcement of the 0.5 percentage point rise came after the RBA's monthly board meeting and is the second hike in as many months, after the rate was kept at a record 0.1 per cent between November 2020 and April this year. The RBA board said the rise was "a further step…
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Nearly 1000 people killed in Pakistan floods as diaspora in Austral...

A state of emergency has been declared in Pakistan, where heavy monsoons and flash flooding has killed 1,000 people. As the country’s prime minister calls for international aid, members of the Pakistani diaspora in Australia are gathering supplies to send to those hardest hit.
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Concerns of new COVID-19 wave as holiday season looms

Amid concerns about the fourth wave of COVID-19 approaching the holiday season - experts suggest people take RAT tests before going to functions where they are vulnerable.
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ANZ to appeal after ACCC denies their Suncorp merger

[[A four-point-nine billion dollar merger of ANZ with Suncorp’s banking arm has been denied by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. The department’s deputy chair says it will further entrench the dominance of the big four banks, and limit competition.]]
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SBS On the Money CEO Series: NIB Holdings outgoing Chief Executive ...

Private health insurer NIB Holdings released results for the year to June 2024. And shareholders showed they wanted much better numbers - sending the stock down a whopping 17%. NIB saw a 77% jump in underlying operating profit to $257.5 million, with revenue up 9.3% to $3.3 billion. Rena Sarumpaet…
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SBS On the Money: The ASX 200 hits an all-time record close

The ASX 200 has hit an all-time record close, after matching its previous intra-day high. The gold miners, a key catalyst – as the price of the precious metal continued to soar ahead of an expected US rate cut. For more on that decision, plus what to expect from other major central bank meetings…