SBS News In Depth

For generations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have called for a formal treaty or treaties to recognise their sovereignty. Now, formal negotiations have begun in Victoria to establish the nation's first-ever treaty between a state and its First Nations people. But other countries including Canada, New Zealand and the United States began signing treaties centuries ago, so what's taken Australia so long?

SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with Sydney designer Katie Jane Taylor (Nee: Perry) about an appeal court's decision to force her to cancel her "Katie Perry" trademark which she has held for 15 years following legal action from singer Katy Perry; plus the ASX hits another record high as Tony Sycamore from IG Markets Securities Limited explains.

Israel's Prime Minister faces the prospect of being arrested if he travels to a country that is a member state of the International Criminal Court. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's former defence minister Yoav Gallant, and a Hamas leader for alleged war crimes relating to the Gaza war.

Russia's use of a new mid-range ballistic missile - with a range of several thousand kilometres- to strike a Ukrainian city has raised concerns over the type of weaponry being used against civilians. It is the first time that Russia has used that specific type of weapon since the start of Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion.

At least a dozen cars have been vandalised in Sydney's eastern suburbs in what the Prime Minister has described as anti-semitism and deeply troubling to all Australians. New South Wales police are investigating the motivation of the incident and says it involved two offenders.

SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves takes a look at the day's top market news with Ben Clark from TMS Capital, including: NVIDIA's latest earnings report, the future of the Future Fund, and Mineral Resources' AGM as the company's managing director fronts shareholders.

China is aiming to be the first country in the world to develop what it calls the low-altitude economy, which could include passenger and cargo transport - as well as rapid-response emergency services.

The government has been stripped of support for its legislation to impose caps on foreign student numbers at Australian universities. Despite backing caps on student numbers, the opposition has declared it won’t back the bill, facing criticism it's delaying measures that would reduce immigration.

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has now extended beyond 1,000 days. It has entered a new phase with a major shift in the position of the US and UK in agreeing to supply long-range missiles for Ukraine's use against targets inside Russia. That has had repercussions.

Two Melbourne teenagers remain on life support in separate Thai hospitals, after drinking what are believed to be poisoned cocktails in Laos. The parents of the 19-year-old girls in a critical condition from suspected methanol poisoning have rushed to be by their side.

Mary Wooldridge from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency goes through the progress of narrowing the gender pay gap; Andrew Barker from CEDA explains how incomes can be boosted by 20 per cent by undertaking at work training; and the day on the sharemarket with Stuart Roberts from Stocks Down Under including the results of Rio Tinto's workplace culture review.

The gender pay gap is still significant, but it appears to be narrowing. That's according to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, which has released its yearly Gender Equality Scorecard. The agency says the improvement has been driven by higher wages, publication of pay gaps by individual employers... as well as a greater take-up of paid parental leave.

A Republican party bill has been introduced into the US Congress that aims to ban the first trans person elected to the House from using the women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill next year. Speaker Mike Johnson has struggled to respond to the bill, while Democratic Party members have rejected the legislation, saying it is part of a pointless culture war.

Russia has accused Ukraine of firing longer range missiles supplied by the US into its territory, threatening to further escalate the conflict. It comes on the thousandth day since the start of the Russian invasion, with global leaders making a call for peace to prevail in the region.

Substantial coral losses on the Great Barrier Reef of up to 72 per cent have been recorded following extensive bleaching and natural disasters last summer. The declines have been noted in new research - from the Australian Institute of Marine Science - for more than half of its reefs surveyed between Lizard Island and Cardwell.

The Productivity Commissioner says Bunnings breached customer privacy by using facial recognition technology at some of its New South Wales and Victorian stores without consent, but the company says it was needed to protect the safety of their stakeholders. SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with Margarita Vladimirova from the Deakin Law School to find out more; plus the day on the sharemarket with Raymond Chan from Morgans.

One of New Zealand's largest-ever protest movements has concluded in Wellington. Tens of thousands of Kiwis took to the streets to oppose a government bill to re-define the Treaty of Waitangi, and how it is interpreted in law.

Social cohesion in Australia is at a 17-year low, with the economy, housing, immigration, and conflicts overseas are all impacting communities in Australia. The annual report by the Scanlon Foundation has found attitudes towards multiculturalism remain mostly positive, views of immigration and major religions are declining.

The United Nations Palestinian Relief agency says over a hundred trucks carrying necessary aid for civilians in Gaza have been violently looted. Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministers of the European Union have bilaterally decided not to cut diplomatic ties with Israel, despite concerns about human rights violations.

In this digital era of information overload, the widespread sharing of messages and fake news has the potential to mobilise membership of far-right groups on a global scale. This risk remains a serious issue for Australia and the world. This special episode of To the Extreme, an award-winning SBS News podcast series, explores how the federal government is tackling the threat ahead of an inquiry report into right-wing movements, due to be finalised later this year.