Weekend One on One

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Go behind the headlines and hear what the newsmakers themselves have to say. In this weekend series, we’ll be getting experience, analysis, and understanding in extended interviews with the people who really know what’s going on.

Episode Date
INTERVIEW: Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs Julian Hill, responds to Opposition's budget reply
May 15, 2026
INTERVIEW: Delta Goodrem on what it means to represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest
May 13, 2026
INTERVIEW: SBS News speaks to Treasurer Jim Chalmers ahead of the federal budget
May 10, 2026
INTERVIEW: Health Minister Mark Butler ahead of the Budget
May 09, 2026
INTERVIEW: Professor Jessica Rosenberg on encouraging young people to engage on quantum technologies
May 08, 2026
INTERVIEW: North Aboriginal Justice Agency CEO accuses NT government of long term detention in watchhouses
May 02, 2026
INTERVIEW: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to SBS about the antisemitism Royal Commission report
Apr 30, 2026
INTERVIEW: Will things ever return to 'normal' in the Strait of Hormuz?
Apr 23, 2026
INTERVIEW: Why have the ceasefire talks stalled?
Apr 22, 2026
INTERVIEW: Singapore Energy Minister Dr Tan See Leng
Apr 14, 2026
INTERVIEW: The Cocos Islands will soon become uninhabitable; but what happens to the residents?
Apr 10, 2026
INTERVIEW: Are Australia's institutions equipped for gender diversity?
Apr 04, 2026
INTERVIEW: Professor Paul Griffin tells SBS 'more important than ever' to get flu vaccine this year
Apr 04, 2026
INTERVIEW: PNG's Foreign Minister on his country's approach to the fuel crisis
Apr 01, 2026
INTERVIEW: As the fuel crisis deepens, what could the future hold?
Mar 30, 2026
INTERVIEW: Could First Nations methods improve mental health treatment?
Mar 28, 2026
INTERVIEW: How do Australians view national security?
Mar 27, 2026
INTERVIEW: How significant was the judgement against social media giants?
Mar 26, 2026
INTERVIEW: How much firepower does Iran have left?
Mar 23, 2026
INTERVIEW: Squeezing more kilometres out of your fuel tank
Mar 21, 2026
INTERVIEW: Ahead of South Australia's state election, SBS talks to One Nation candidate Cory Bernardi
Mar 20, 2026
INTERVIEW: SBS talks to Premier Peter Malinauskas as South Australia goes to the polls
Mar 20, 2026
INTERVIEW: Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman
Mar 16, 2026
INTERVIEW: Brain health focus from 20s and 30s 'critical' in preventing dementia
Mar 14, 2026
INTERVIEW: Bondi hero Ahmed al Ahmed
Mar 13, 2026
INTERVIEW: Petrol spike adds to taxi industry costs burden – could fares go up?
Mar 12, 2026
INTERVIEW: Facing the might of America's military, what will Iran do next?
Mar 10, 2026
INTERVIEW: Indigenous Australians Minister on the parliamentary inquiry into racism
Mar 05, 2026
INTERVIEW: Is Australia providing intelligence for the US-Israel attacks on Iran?
Mar 04, 2026
INTERVIEW: Penny Wong on Australia's involvement in the Iran conflict
Mar 04, 2026
INTERVIEW: How legal is the US-Israeli action in Iran?
Mar 03, 2026
INTERVIEW: How to cope with rising power prices
Feb 28, 2026
INTERVIEW: Dr Jamal Rifi on efforts to being home Austalian women in an IS group detention camp
Feb 24, 2026
INTERVIEW: How students are combating racism at Australian universities
Feb 20, 2026
INTERVIEW: New project explores power of language and shared histories
Feb 20, 2026
INTERVIEW: What needs to happen to bring the Murray Darling Basin back to health?
Feb 14, 2026
INTERVIEW: Feyza Tuncay on helping children learn about ethics
Feb 10, 2026
Australian researchers on a mission to save millions of lives from antibiotic resistance
Feb 09, 2026
INTERVIEW: SBS talks to Mildura's mayor on managing heatwaves, and overcoming climate change scepticism
Feb 06, 2026
Australia's 'most liveable' city is now the cheapest to rent houses
Jan 17, 2026
INTERVIEW: Loneliness - the hidden health danger
Jan 16, 2026
INTERVIEW: How is the social media ban working and is it an effective measure?
Jan 16, 2026
Why are women worried about their financial future?
Jan 16, 2026
INTERVIEW: Dr Patsie Frawley on promoting intimacy rights for people with disabilities
Jan 04, 2026
INTERVIEW: Can early education make your children happy adults?
Dec 20, 2025
INTERVIEW: ACCC’s new warning about the dangers of AI for consumers
Dec 19, 2025
INTERVIEW: What needs to be done about our gun laws?
Dec 15, 2025
INTERVIEW: Jillian Segal, Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism
Dec 15, 2025
INTERVIEW: SBS speaks to Human Rights Commissioner as UN blocked from inspecting detention facilities
Dec 14, 2025
INTERVIEW: Do oysters have ears? Dr Dominic McAfee shares a unique method for oyster regeneration
Dec 06, 2025
INTERVIEW: Australian youth identify cost of living as top concern in survey
Nov 28, 2025
INTERVIEW: The Great Koala Count and the citizen scientists involved
Nov 16, 2025
INTERVIEW: NITV Radio talks to Dr Harry Hobbs on Victoria's treaty becoming law
Nov 15, 2025
INTERVIEW: BBC is facing an orchestrated campaign to undercut public trust says analyst
Nov 10, 2025
INTERVIEW: Bruce Stillman on the life and legacy of DNA pioneer James Watson
Nov 08, 2025
INTERVIEW: Can Zohran Mamdani deliver on his election promises?
Nov 05, 2025
INTERVIEW: Foodbank Australia CEO Kylea Tink
Nov 05, 2025
INTERVIEW: Eliza Owen from Cotality on the RBA's impact on the property market
Nov 03, 2025
INTERVIEW: Mary Wooldridge, CEO of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency
Nov 01, 2025
INTERVIEW: Graeme Samuel tells SBS why he endorses the government's environmental bill
Oct 31, 2025
INTERVIEW: Jill Gallagher, VACCHO, on the new Victorian treaty
Oct 31, 2025
Are aliens from space waiting to invade? Probably not, say the scientists
Oct 25, 2025
INTERVIEW: 'Deaths of Despair': the deadly dangers of homelessness
Oct 25, 2025
INTERVIEW: Inside Sudan's deepening humanitarian crisis
Oct 24, 2025
INTERVIEW: What does the Middle East peace deal mean?
Oct 09, 2025
INTERVIEW: The AFP's new commissioner, Krissy Barrett
Oct 07, 2025
INTERVIEW: Everyone loves a ghost train: but why do we love being scared?
Oct 03, 2025
INTERVIEW: Could a First Nations voice help tackle stubborn public health challenges?
Oct 03, 2025
INTERVIEW: Israeli forces take action against flotilla trying to deliver aid
Oct 02, 2025
INTERVIEW: What does the US shutdown mean in practice?
Oct 01, 2025
INTERVIEW: 'We are family, we should work together': Palau President's challenge to Australia
Sep 27, 2025
INTERVIEW: Footballer Fandi Ahmad is a Singaporean sporting legend: We find out why
Sep 27, 2025
INTERVIEW: Could a new UN declaration protect aid workers amid the growing death toll?
Sep 27, 2025
INTERVIEW: Penny Wong on the upcoming Albanese-Trump meeting and Australia's bid to host COP31
Sep 25, 2025
INTERVIEW: The new Aged Care Act and the 'unintended consequences' preventing transformational change
Sep 13, 2025
INTERVIEW: Is there life on Mars? New research seems to show there was, once.
Sep 13, 2025
INTERVIEW: Supermarket sweep: How making wise choices could save you money
Sep 12, 2025
INTERVIEW: Three years after the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, what's changed?
Sep 12, 2025
INTERVIEW: Envoy Aftab Malik on 'going to the roots' of Islamophobia in Australia
Sep 12, 2025
INTERVIEW: What does Israel's 'puzzling' strike on Qatar mean for a Gaza peace deal?
Sep 10, 2025
INTERVIEW: Cricketer Usman Khawaja on why he is calling on sporting bodies to consider banning Israel
Aug 30, 2025
INTERVIEW: 22 years after Concorde's last flight - could supersonic travel be back in the air
Aug 30, 2025
INTERVIEW: Julia Delaforce on the experience of women whistleblowers and the need for reform
Aug 29, 2025
INTERVIEW: Rapa Nui's famous moai statues are under threat
Aug 23, 2025
INTERVIEW: The truth about working from home - and should we work on Friday afternoons?
Aug 23, 2025
INTERVIEW: Why this emergency nurse is putting his life on the line – again – in Gaza
Aug 23, 2025
INTERVIEW: What next, following the Ukraine talks at the White House?
Aug 19, 2025
INTERVIEW: This killer causes a million deaths - and gets a special day?
Aug 18, 2025
INTERVIEW: Solving AI amnesia with bee brains
Aug 18, 2025
INTERVIEW: Fossil finds add ancestors - and a puzzle - to our human family tree
Aug 16, 2025
INTERVIEW: Who stands to gain what from the Alaska summit?
Aug 13, 2025
Chikungunya: a new mosquito-borne virus to contend with
Aug 11, 2025
INTERVIEW: Expert says the Trump-Putin summit is an 'alarming development'
Aug 10, 2025
INTERVIEW: Jolly Duong on pursuing the dream of being a Paralympian
Aug 09, 2025
Global fertility rates are dropping: it could spell disaster in the future
Aug 08, 2025
INTERVIEW: 'This is the medicine': Songwriter Kalani Artis on how a music program changed his life
Aug 03, 2025
INTERVIEW: Why don't people speak up against racism?
Aug 02, 2025
INTERVIEW: Arrente artist Amunda Gorey on kinship, connection and deep listening
Aug 01, 2025
INTERVIEW: High hopes for new HIV vaccine
Aug 01, 2025
INTERVIEW: Basem Abdo on his Palestinian heritage and being a first-time federal MP
Jul 29, 2025
INTERVIEW: President Trump's tariffs are looming
Jul 26, 2025
INTERVIEW: How Indigenous businesses are creating $42 billion in social value each year
Jul 14, 2025
INTERVIEW: Australia among first countries to launch lung cancer screening program
Jul 05, 2025
SBS speaks to former Treasurer Wayne Swan on Australia's new super guarantee
Jun 30, 2025
INTERVIEW: Professor Andrew Sindone talks to SBS about heart failure
Jun 28, 2025
INTERVIEW: Dodging an asteroid attack
Jun 28, 2025
INTERVIEW: Iran's ambassador to Australia speaks to SBS
Jun 24, 2025
INTERVIEW: What will Iran do next?
Jun 23, 2025
INTERVIEW: The new dinosaur found in a forgotten museum drawer
Jun 21, 2025
INTERVIEW: A milestone for the Australian hotline helping those affected by overseas conflicts
Jun 21, 2025
Albanese-Trump meeting cancelled as US president departs G7 early
Jun 17, 2025
INTERVIEW: Sussan Ley on Gaza, misogyny and escaping the 'novelty' of being a woman leader
Jun 17, 2025
INTERVIEW: Lauren Muratore on having a conversation about sex
Jun 14, 2025
INTERVIEW: The persistent employment struggles of refugees
Jun 11, 2025
'Coming together without division': Healing and reconciliation after the Myall Creek Massacre
Jun 08, 2025
INTERVIEW: Stolen Generations survivor Tony Hansen on what it means to finally have a redress scheme in WA
Jun 07, 2025
INTERVIEW: Anne Aly on Australia's multiculturalism
Jun 06, 2025
INTERVIEW: WA Stolen Generations survivors welcome redress scheme
May 31, 2025
INTERVIEW: The Australian doctor seeking to build a children's hospital in Gaza
May 30, 2025
INTERVIEW: Finding joy in a world of chaos
May 24, 2025
INTERVIEW: Experiencing the Hajj
May 23, 2025
One on One: Nationals Deputy Leader Kevin Hogan talks about the split with the Liberals
May 20, 2025
INTERVIEW: Record numbers of malicious data breaches recorded - how do you protect yourself?
May 16, 2025
INTERVIEW: CEO of Palliative Care Australia
May 12, 2025
It's Mother's Day - but are you your Mum's favourite child?
May 10, 2025
INTERVIEW: The role of non-medical interventions in managing chronic pain
May 09, 2025
INTERVIEW: Connecting migrants with employers
May 09, 2025
INTERVIEW: The conflict in Kashmir
May 08, 2025
INTERVIEW: Coalition foreign affairs spokesman David Coleman
Apr 26, 2025
INTERVIEW: 'Migrants have become scapegoats': FECCA's Peter Doukas voices election concerns
Apr 26, 2025
INTERVIEW: Dr Wenn Lawson on improving full and equal participation for people with autism
Apr 17, 2025
INTERVIEW: Why action on diversity and inclusion can help to boost Australian business
Apr 12, 2025
INTERVIEW: Why is WA a battleground state?
Apr 04, 2025
INTERVIEW: Iain Anderson, National Student Ombudsman
Mar 24, 2025
INTERVIEW: How is Australia's Congolese community dealing with war in their homeland?
Mar 22, 2025
INTERVIEW: Working as a doctor in Gaza
Mar 14, 2025
INTERVIEW: What are the ramifications of the Oval Office row last week?
Mar 02, 2025
Weekend One on One: Go-Jo
Mar 01, 2025
INTERVIEW: Australians are struggling to pay off their mortgage, let alone save a deposit
Feb 28, 2025
INTERVIEW: Goethe-Institut Australia's Christoph Mücher on anxiety and uncertainty ahead of German election
Feb 22, 2025
INTERVIEW: Vet Bronwyn Orr on fears for missing pets as Australian microchip registry moves offline
Feb 15, 2025
INTERVIEW: North Macedonia's Foreign Minister on Donald Trump's 'unconventional' diplomacy
Feb 14, 2025
INTERVIEW: Jewish Council of Australia's Dr Max Kaiser on allegations of antisemitism against Elon Musk
Feb 01, 2025
INTERVIEW: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
Jan 30, 2025
INTERVIEW: Eva Clarke survived the Holocaust - but only just
Jan 27, 2025
INTERVIEW: Anti-Islamophobia envoy says Islamophobia 'normalised' and 'under-reported' in Australia
Jan 23, 2025
INTERVIEW: How a plan to lose weight left Sarah sick and hospitalised
Jan 18, 2025
INTERVIEW: Dr Eyal Mayroz on what this Gaza ceasefire means for long-term peace
Jan 17, 2025
INTERVIEW: The space scientist who overcame human trafficking
Jan 11, 2025
Weekend One On One: Canadian Senator Andrew Cardozo
Jan 11, 2025
INTERVIEW: Gina Chick on how to survive getting lost in the Australian bush
Jan 10, 2025
INTERVIEW: Are we in danger from H5N1 Bird Flu?
Jan 10, 2025
INTERVIEW: Living better, living longer
Dec 28, 2024
INTERVIEW: Anti-semitism envoy Jillian Segal speaks to SBS
Dec 15, 2024
INTERVIEW: Jeremy Oliver from Victoria Police on increase in homophobic attacks
Dec 15, 2024
INTERVIEW: Thorne Harbour Health CEO Simon Ruth on increase in homophobic attacks
Dec 14, 2024
INTERVIEW: Permanent hub for SBS in Western Sydney welcomed for chance to share more untold stories
Dec 08, 2024
INTERVIEW: Top Finnish diplomat tells SBS 'now more than ever we need partners like Australia'
Nov 30, 2024
INTERVIEW: Alison Battisson speaks about arbitrary detention
Nov 30, 2024
INTERVIEW: Movember's Dr Zac Seidler on the 'huge iceberg of an issue' that is male eating disorders
Nov 28, 2024
INTERVIEW: Middle East Analyst Dr Andrew Thomas on the ceasefire agreement
Nov 27, 2024
INTERVIEW: Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman on the roadmap to eliminating racism
Nov 27, 2024
INTERVIEW: Peter Khalil on report findings showing social cohesion in Australia is at a 17-year low
Nov 23, 2024
INTERVIEW: SBS speaks to Maryam Zahid, an Afghan refugee working to uplift women in her community
Nov 15, 2024
INTERVIEW: Climate finance gap for Pacific nations revealed in new report
Nov 14, 2024
INTERVIEW: Anti-slavery expert Fiona David
Nov 09, 2024
INTERVIEW: Professor Dennis Altman on what Donald Trump's comeback means for the world, and Australia
Nov 08, 2024
INTERVIEW: Former Democrat election campaign organiser Cory Alpert
Nov 02, 2024
INTERVIEW: Former Fijian Prime Minister Mahenda Chaudhry
Nov 02, 2024
INTERVIEW: Jess Abrahams from the Australian Conservation Foundation on our endangered species
Nov 01, 2024
INTERVIEW: How well do migrant and refugee communities understand Australia's electoral process?
Oct 26, 2024
INTERVIEW: US Analyst Lee Drutman on early voting in the Presidential Election
Oct 24, 2024
INTERVIEW: Senator Lidia Thorpe speaks to SBS about her protest to King Charles
Oct 24, 2024
INTERVIEW: SBS talks to Professor Andrea Carson on media and politics
Oct 18, 2024
INTERVIEW Governor General Sam Mostyn on the upcoming royal visit
Oct 18, 2024
INTERVIEW: Former defence chief Chris Barrie talks to SBS about Australia's climate security
Oct 12, 2024
INTERVIEW: Why do we often witness vitriol and personal attacks in US politics?
Oct 04, 2024
What went wrong with Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft?
Oct 04, 2024
INTERVIEW: Why a strike at US ports could hit trade here in Australia
Oct 02, 2024
INTERVIEW: Former ACCC chair on the future of the big supermarkets which are set to face court
Sep 28, 2024
INTERVIEW: Foreign Minister Penny Wong on the situation in Lebanon
Sep 25, 2024
INTERVIEW: How are the people of Lebanon reacting to the attacks from Israel
Sep 24, 2024
Weekend One On One: the Executive Council of Australian Jewry's Alex Ryvchin
Sep 20, 2024
INTERVIEW: What factors can lead to cognitive decline and dementia?
Sep 16, 2024
INTERVIEW: 'Democracy under siege': Could a new grassroots project be the antidote?
Sep 14, 2024
INTERVIEW: Meet the figure championing women to become tradies in a male-dominated environment
Sep 13, 2024
INTERVIEW: Former Trump adviser tells SBS he's backing Kamala Harris
Sep 06, 2024
INTERVIEW: Rona Glynn-McDonald on Amplifying the quality of Australia's political debate
Aug 30, 2024
INTERVIEW: Polio crisis in Gaza pauses the war
Aug 30, 2024
INTERVIEW: Stuck in space for Christmas - and beyond
Aug 29, 2024
INTERVIEW: AIWT CEO Yvonne Yeo reacts to the Government's Student Cap announcement
Aug 27, 2024
INTERVIEW: Multi-medallist Libby Kosmala tells her remarkable Paralympics story
Aug 24, 2024
INTERVIEW: SBS talks to Tessa Boyd-Caine about migrant women facing workplace sexual harassment
Aug 24, 2024
INTERVIEW: Noemie Fox on how sibling rivalry pushed her to Olympic gold
Aug 23, 2024
'It's a privilege': SBS talks to Voluntary Assisted Dying practitioner Dr Bu O'Brien
Aug 17, 2024
INTERVIEW: AI expert Dr Ida Someh speaks to SBS as tech and social media giants front a senate inquiry
Aug 16, 2024
INTERVIEW: Is 'deepfake technology' developing faster than detection?
Aug 13, 2024
INTERVIEW: What are the facts behind the row over boxer Imane Khelif's gender?
Aug 10, 2024
INTERVIEW: Is your boss a monster? Here's what to do.
Aug 10, 2024
INTERVIEW: Is 'deepfake technology' developing faster than detection?
Aug 10, 2024
INTERVIEW: Former athlete Roman Abasy fled the Taliban - now he brings sports to refugees, migrants in Sydney
Aug 09, 2024
INTERVIEW: The Refugee Olympic Team's history-making medal
Aug 07, 2024
INTERVIEW: Economist Chris Richardson on turbulence on the world's markets
Aug 06, 2024
INTERVIEW: Shipwreck champagne may still be fit for a tsar
Aug 05, 2024
INTERVIEW: What is the 'privacy pub test' and why do we need one?
Aug 03, 2024
INTERVIEW: Senator Malarndirri McCarthy
Aug 02, 2024
INTERVIEW: Dame Quentin Bryce on Australia's pioneering Sex Discrimination Act, 40 years on
Aug 01, 2024
INTERVIEW: Former Greens Senator Bob Brown on the arrest of Sea Shepherd campaigner Paul Watson
Aug 01, 2024
Greenbank State school's pool has produced two gold medal Olympians
Jul 30, 2024
INTERVIEW: Australians urged to heed travel advice on Lebanon
Jul 30, 2024
INTERVIEW: Bruce Wolpe on Kamala Harris bid for the White House
Jul 26, 2024
Sharks: it's not all about 'Jaws'
Jul 20, 2024
INTERVIEW: Mpox outbreak prompts 'sex bubble' recommendation
Jul 19, 2024
INTERVIEW: Brendan Crabb from Burnet Institute on growing Long COVID case numbers
Jul 13, 2024
INTERVIEW: Dr Emma Shortis tells SBS Assange's US prosecution was an 'unprecedented' attack on press freedom
Jun 29, 2024
INTERVIEW: Gaby Alamin is a Sahrawi-Australian woman advocating for her people's struggle for independence
Jun 22, 2024
Snoring - not just annoying, could be a sign of serious problems
Jun 22, 2024
INTERVIEW: How did the first humans get to Australia?
May 24, 2024
INTERVIEW: Federal budget measures for First Nations communities welcomed
May 18, 2024
Migrants, refugees with disabilities disappointed with federal budget
May 17, 2024
INTERVIEW: Hannah Solomons on tackling under-representation in the arts
May 11, 2024
INTERVIEW: Griffith University vice-chancellor Carolyn Evans on Prac Payment, HECS reform
May 09, 2024
INTERVIEW: US Permanent Representative to NATO, Julianne Smith
May 05, 2024
INTERVIEW: Domestic Violence Crisis Service CEO Sue Webeck
May 01, 2024
INTERVIEW: Garry Matthews speaks to SBS about truth-telling
Apr 27, 2024