World News Australia is the news service of the Special Broadcasting Service. Its flagship nightly bulletin is broadcast at 6.30pm on SBS One with additional weeknight 'late' bulletins at 10.30pm on SBS One. World News Australia is currently presented by Lee Lin Chin, Anton Enus, Janice Petersen, Ricardo Goncalves, Rena Sarumpaet, Peta-Jane Madam and Kathy Novak.

The World News began as a half-hour bulletin, first seen in 1980, soon after the launch of the then-named Channel 0/28. George Donikian was the service's first presenter; veteran newsreader Mary Kostakidis began reading the weekend news in 1986. The network's long-running investigative documentary series Dateline started in 1984.

Closed captioning for the World News was introduced in March 1997.

In 2002, a digital-only World News Channel was launched, aimed at providing a comprehensive foreign-language news channel, mainly showing additional bulletins already seen in SBS' morning WorldWatch timeslot. No English-language bulletins were shown on the channel until its demise in 2009.

World news or international news or even foreign coverage is the news media-jargon for news from abroad, about a foreign country or a global subject. For journalism, it is a branch that deals with news either sent by foreign correspondents or news agencies, or — more recently — information that is gathered or researched through distance communication technologies, such as telephone, satellite TV or the internet.

Although in most of the Anglophone world this field is not usually regarded as a specific specialization for journalists, it is so in nearly all the world. Particularly in the United States, there is a blurred distinction between world news and "national" news when they include directly the national government or national institutions, such as wars in which the US are involved or summits of multilateral organizations in which the US are a member.

Actually, at the birth of modern journalism, most news were actually foreign, as registered by the courants of the 17th century in West and Central Europe, such as the Daily Courant (England), the Nieuwe Tijudinger (Antwerp), the Relation (Strasbourg), the Avisa Relation oder Zeitung (Wolfenbüttel) and the Courante Uyt Italien, Duytsland & C. (Amsterdam). Since these papers were aimed at bankers and merchants, they brought mostly news from other markets, which usually meant other nations. In any case, it is worthy to remark that nation-states were still incipient in 17th-century Europe.

Anton Enus, is a South African-born Australian news presenter for SBS television.

Until December 2007, Enus anchored the late edition of SBS World News Australia, which aired on weeknights at 9.30pm. With the departure of both Mary Kostakidis and Stan Grant as anchors of the early-evening broadcast, Enus became the lead anchor of the programme on 17 December 2007.

He has been a newscaster and journalist for 20 years. He has been with SBS World News Tonight for the past five years, after a 15-year career in radio and television with South Africa's national broadcaster, SABC. Anton's achievements include the CNN World Report award for best international report and the Bokmakierie Award for current affairs. Before leaving South Africa, Anton presented the country's major evening national news bulletin for the SABC.

He was a founding member of South Africa's gay and lesbian sports movement in the early 1980s and was on the organising team that guided the country into the Gay Games for the first time in 1994. He has also served on committees aimed at reconciling Johannesburg's multi-cultural gay and lesbian communities.^{[citation needed]}