Emma Kowal, Deakin University e Misty Jenkins, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
The SBS documentary DNA Nation tracks three people on their ‘individual genetic journey’. But for Indigenous Australians in particular, genetic testing is a can of worms - politically, ethically and technically.
Australia’s 2016 Eurovision contestant Dami Im performing with Conchita and Guy Sebastian in Sydney earlier this year.
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Australia has struggled to forge cultural ties with the Asia-Pacific region. But SBS’s deal to develop an Asian Eurovision could change this - there is more to the event than music, costume reveals and wind machines.
The placebo effect is real and powerful, despite it having a bad rap.
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Doctors break no law in using a placebo, but may cross an ethical boundary in choosing not deceive a patient, or to facilitate a patient’s self-deception.
Its increasingly corporate model aligns with mainstream media organisations, but SBS Radio needs to retain its community advocacy role – in the current climate more than ever.
Journalists are often expected to engage with social media.
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The recent sacking of an SBS journalist for controversial statements made on social media could inspire self-censorship amongst journalists.
Reporter Scott McIntyre lost his job with SBS following several controversial tweets on Anzac Day – but does the Fair Work Act protect the right to political expression?
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Scott McIntyre’s legal challenge against being sacked by SBS will be an interesting test of whether the Fair Work Act offers any safe haven for employees to maintain a personal and political identity.
Struggle Street was no more voyeuristic than any reality TV show of the last two decades.
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The producers of this series are doing what public service media are tasked to do – making the marginal visible, including the excluded, putting poverty on the public agenda.
Poverty porn produces abjectifying images of the poor for privileged gratification.
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The more privileged of us swear, fart and take drugs, just like the less privileged portrayed in the SBS show Struggle Street. But they don’t have exploitive documentaries being made about them.
‘Let me try and put sacked SBS sports journalist Scott McIntyre’s tweets in historical perspective.’
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It is naïve to expect men to kill and die for their country, to live through the horrors of a particularly barbaric war, and to come out the other end unscathed – despite our popular myths.
Janice Petersen – one of the faces of World News Australia on SBS, which is facing accusations of ‘whitewashing’.
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Journalism schools are full of first-generation students that fit the SBS charter’s directive to ‘make use of Australia’s diverse creative resources’ and ‘reflect the changing nature of Australian society’.
Malcolm Fraser appeared more comfortable in the media gaze out of politics than in it.
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Malcolm Fraser’s relationship with the Australian media waxed and waned, from enthusiasm, pragmatism and caution to something, in the end, approaching mutual respect and perhaps even affection.
Fraser defended and spoke up for the core Australian social and political values of a ‘fair go’ for all.
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In 1975, people wore Shame Fraser Shame badges and demonstrated in support of the sacked prime minister, Gough Whitlam. Today, those same protestors feel powerful emotions at the passing of Malcolm Fraser. Why?
In 2004, the Indigenous population of Redfern finally struck back at perceived endless police oppression and violence.
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The aftermath of the 1934 Kalgoorlie riots, with their death toll of an “Aussie” and a “Slav”, the mass destruction of the homes of the Dings at Dingbat Flat and the rising horror in the town at how the…
The First Contact cast members’ transformation over the series is an optical illusion of Australian race relations.
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The SBS/Blackfella Films production First Contact – that takes six non-Indigenous people and immerses them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time – captured the nation’s attention this week amassing…
Malcolm Turnbull and the government have been unapologetic after breaking a pre-election pledge not to cut the ABC’s budget.
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Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced a further cut to Australia’s public broadcasters. The ABC’s budget will be slashed around 4.6% per year, or A$254 million in total, over the next…
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull is looking for greater efficiency from both the ABC and SBS.
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Did SBS chief executive Michael Ebeid score a well-timed free kick or an own goal in his attack on the ABC this week? The ABC recently secured the free-to-air television rights for the Asian Cup football…
Hope, faith and miracle are the operative words when it comes to stem cell tourism.
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Stem cell tourism is when people travel to another country to receive treatments unavailable to them at home. It exists chiefly because most stem cell “treatments” are unproven and not readily available…
The response to SBS documentary series Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl is indicative of the series’ backstory and the ongoing debate it has entered.
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The final week of SBS’ four-part documentary series Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl brings us to the last decade’s crises for Lebanese Muslim communities in Sydney’s west, and the path to redemption they…