• Weekend One on One

  • By: SBS
  • Podcast

Weekend One on One

By: SBS
  • Summary

  • 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.
    Copyright 2024, Special Broadcasting Services
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Episodes
  • INTERVIEW: Former Democrat election campaign organiser Cory Alpert
    Nov 2 2024
    Cory Alpert is a PhD researcher at the University of Melbourne looking at the impact of AI on democracy - but he has a wealth of experience in the world of American politics. He served for three years in the White House during the Biden-Harris Administration working in the Executive Office of the President. He's worked on three Presidential campaigns, including for Hillary Clinton in 2016. and as regional chief of staff for Pete Buttigieg’s historic 2020 campaign. He has also had senior staff and advisory roles on Senate, House, Gubernatorial, mayoral, and state legislative races across the United States. So with just a couple of days before the US Presidential Election, SBS's Deborah Groarke asked him about how the campaigning strategies are put together:
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    25 mins
  • INTERVIEW: Former Fijian Prime Minister Mahenda Chaudhry
    Nov 2 2024
    Mahendra Chaudhry was Fiji's first Prime Minister of Indian ancestry, but in 2000 he and most his cabinet were held hostage for almost two months, after a civilian coup backed by a faction of the military and led by George Speight stormed parliament. Since the 1980s there have been four coups in Fiji - each with links to ethnic tension between Indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians. Mr Chaudhry is the current leader of the Fiji Labour Party. In an interview with SBS's Jennifer Scherer, he talks about Fiji's movement toward social cohesion and how Diwali can promote reconciliation despite a history of coup culture
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    10 mins
  • INTERVIEW: Jess Abrahams from the Australian Conservation Foundation on our endangered species
    Nov 1 2024
    A fluffy native mouse and five other Australian species have been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List. According to the Australian Conservation Foundation, Australia’s escalating extinction crisis, is being fuelled by climate change, deforestation, and outdated conservation laws. SBS's Essam Al-Ghalib was joined by the Australian Conservation Foundation’s national nature campaigner, Jess Abrahams
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    7 mins

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