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  • AUSTRALIA

    Multiculturalism steps aside for advertising on SBS

    • Michael Mullins
    • 21 June 2010
    5 Comments

    SBS TV's world renowned Subtitling Unit is about to lose one third of its staff. It's perfectly valid for SBS to jettison its subtitlers if it determines that SBS is fundamentally no longer a multicultural broadcaster. It's up to SBS management to come clean on its current purpose.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Asylum seeker love

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 09 April 2009
    3 Comments

    The filmmakers interviewed numerous asylum seeker advocates. Most were women, advocating on behalf of young men. Their relationships were intense and complex.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    More than Sex and Bloody Soccer

    • Paul Collins
    • 14 November 2008
    2 Comments

    SBS television has been called many things, including the 'sexual broadcasting service', because of the risqué foreign language films that it shows. SBS radio is the ultimate melting pot, a symbol of an inclusive Australian multiculturalism in which different languages and cultures are respected.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The fear detective

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 13 November 2008
    3 Comments

    The Edmund Rice Centre's Phil Glendenning is is the ordinary gruff Australian bloke abroad - a Merv Hughes or an Ian Chappell, not naturally articulate but enduring and not to be fobbed off with smooth talk. His silent listening is the moral centre of this powerful SBS TV documentary about returned asylum seekers.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Sarah Ferguson

    • Sarah Ferguson
    • 17 May 2007

    Sarah Ferguson is a reporter for the Channel 9 Sunday programme. Before joining Sunday, Sarah worked for the SBS programmes Dateline and Insight.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Rodrigo Acuña

    • Rodrigo Acuña
    • 17 May 2007

    Rodrigo Acuña is a PhD candidate in International Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. He writes regularly on Latin American affairs in the Australian press and has been interviewed on ABC Radio, SBS Radio (Spanish) and Radio Adelaide among others.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Pushed and hushed

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 11 May 2006

    Mums watching Birth Rites on SBS will remember how damned irritating everyone around you can be when you are trying to get a quart out of a pint pot.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Lest we forget

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 27 April 2006

    Dad’s and Uncle George’s stories come back to me when I consider the upcoming series on SBS As It Happened: Germany’s War.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Peter Thomas

    • Peter Thomas

    Peter Thomas is the voice of Eureka Street Radio. An accomplished broadcaster and television filmmaker, Peter has produced documentaries, typically social justice, spirituality and inter-faith features for Australian and overseas networks, including ABC-TV and SBS. His Eureka Street podcast contribution is a return to his broadcast roots having worked as a radio and television announcer in many parts of Australia. In retirement he has an involvement in community radio and a strong interest in meditation, conducting frequent workshops and training programs.

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