Shuba Krishnan

Former prime minister John Howard says the national apology to the Stolen Generations was "meaningless" and he stands by his decision not to consider a treaty with Indigenous Australians. Kevin Rudd delivered the formal apology as prime minister on 13 February 2008 to Australia’s Indigenous peoples and particularly to the Stolen Generations who were impacted by previous government policies of forced child removal and Indigenous assimilation. The 2001 Cabinet records, releas…

Former prime minister John Howard led Australia into the war in Afghanistan 20 years ago but says a military presence should have remained in the country until everyone who helped Australian troops could have been flown out. In a wide-ranging interview with SBS News marking the release of the 2001 Cabinet records, Mr Howard also stuck by his decision to begin Australia's offshore detention regime and defended the lack of discussion about women in his Cabinet. Mr Howard, now 82, was prime mi…

The high school student is concerned the federal government's religious discrimination bill would result in trans students being left exposed to prejudice because of a lack of protections.

The election held on 21 May is anticipated to be a hard-fought and closely contested battle with only weeks away until Australians make their verdict at the polls.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been confronted for the second time during the election campaign over Australia's intake of refugees from Afghanistan. Omid Ahmadi approached Mr Morrison at the Western Sydney Jobs Fair in Homebush on Tuesday and asked for more help to get refugees from Afghanistan to Australia. Mr Ahmadi has been living in Australia for 16 years but still has family in Afghanistan. Mr Morrison told him “16,500 extra are going to be taken, on top of the normal intak…

Vice President Kamala Harris announced the US' plans to extend $600 million in funds for a key regional summit in addition to opening two new embassies - in Tonga and Kiribati - and appointing its first-ever envoy to the Pacific.

Dozens of Fijian aged care trainees are hoping to come to Australia, as part of the first-ever program to train and fast-track workers from the Pacific. Forty students are going through the 12-week course at the Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC), but hundreds more want to be involved. Trainer Miliakere Nasaroa said the pilot program only started this year, but they are already getting hundreds of applications. Dominique Bulivou, 39, said she wanted to get into the sector to help the el…

About an hour from Fiji’s capital is the village of Togoru. Here, even the dead aren’t safe from the impacts of climate change. A few barnacle-covered tombstones are all that’s left of this village's ancestral graveyard. Lavenia McGoon has lived in Togoru all her life. She got married and brought up her children in the small village. She said she’s heartbroken to see the place where her relatives had been laid to rest now underwater. “It's sad to see…

Australia's unemployment rate has hit its highest level since 1998 - with more than 800,000 Australians losing their jobs since the pandemic hit. While unveiling another round of economic support, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says income support will continue but only for those who are most in…

The Federal Government's Murray-Darling Basin water buyback scheme will be axed as part of a big restructure into the management of the river system. Resources Minister Keith Pitt says water recovery targets are not being met and a new action plan is needed, to save the nation's most important…