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A MULTICULTURAL history of Australia...
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Key issues and landmark events in our diverse society...

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3000 pages of reports, articles, speeches, interviews...

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...The Special Broadcasting Service - Listen to Professor Andrew Jakubowicz discuss the events and issues surrounding this topic. Read text commentary

Audio Interviews:
The Special Broadcasting Service - Dr Grisha Sklovsky speaks on ABC ans SBS national sensitvity. - More ...

Audio Interviews:
The Special Broadcasting Service - Professor Manuel Aroney discusses the direction the Australian nation is being taken. - More ...
Documentary Excerpts: Ten years of SBS television (Excerpt) - Mary Kostakidis, Newsreader, SBS Television speaks about the changing and diverse face of Australian television. - More ...
Articles: Headlines about SBS - A sampling of the type of news coverage SBS has attracted over the years, especially at key moments, such as the controversies over the proposed amalgamation with the ABC, and the introduction of sponsorship and advertising. - More ...
Publicity: Interim Ethnic Television Service to start 29 April - This press release, issued by the Special Broadcasting Service in 1979, announces the starting date of experimental television programs and provides a preview of what viewers can expect. - More ...
History: Brief History of SBS - The landmarks in the SBS story, from the beginning of experimental ethnic radio broadcasts in 1975, through the establishment of the permanent radio service, the launching of television in 1980, and its development until mid 1997. - More ...
Miscellaneous Documents: SBS Web Page - SBS Webpage examples of the sort of material that can be found on the webpage in December 1997 and December 2003. SBS launched the webpage in March 1995. Sixty-eight languages are spoken on SBS Radio with programs in more than 60 languages broadcasting on SBS Television, and Online, SBS New Media provides text and audio-on-demand services in more than 50 languages. - More ...
Charters: Special Broadcasting Service Act, 1991 - The Charter - The SBS Charter, drawn up as part of the Special Broadcasting Service Act of 1991 which established SBS as a Corporation, sets out what is required of the network as a national broadcaster. - More ...
Reports: Report by the Committee of Review of the Special Broadcasting Service - The terms of reference, synopsis, and summary of recommendations of a comprehensive review in 1984 of every aspect of SBS - Serving Multicultural Australia - the Role of Broadcasting. - More ...
Speeches: Multicultural Television – The most exciting idea in broadcasting... - In this talk to the National Press Club in Canberra in August 1980 the first head of SBS Television, Bruce Gyngell, tells of the significance of SBS TV, the role it will play after its launch, in October 1980. - More ...
Articles: Reflections of Australia - In 1995, the Managing Director of SBS, Malcolm Long, writes in the NSW Ethnic Communities’ Council magazine Infocus of the achievements of the multicultural broadcaster. - More ...
Miscellaneous Documents: LIVING DIVERSITY: AUSTRALIA’S MULTICULTURAL FUTURE - Read the 2002 Living Diversity SBS survey showing multicultural uses of media. This study gives us a glimpse of the ‘diversity within diversity’ of Australians’ engagement with multiculturalism, their senses of identity and belonging, the ways they engage with others of different backgrounds and their uses of media in a multicultural society - More ...
Miscellaneous Documents: SBS: Voice and Vision - Voice and Vision portrays rich cameos of multiculturalism in the SBS brochure - More ...
Articles: SBS: The World News on the web - SBS TV broadcasts news bulletins from 19 countries in 18 languages. Click here to see their latest TV bulletin transcript - More ...
 
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