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Dateline is an award-winning international documentary series. In 2024, Dateline marks its 40th year on air as Australia's longest-running international current affairs program. Each week Dateline scours the globe to bring you special characters and a world of daring stories.

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The landmark 40th season will explore global issues that expand our understanding of the world around us, with this year's line-up featuring stories from Gaza, Syria, Romania, Venezuela, Germany, Japan, the United States, and beyond.

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An Australian couple bought a French palace for $1.2m. Strangers are helping pay to restore it

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How Li fought for justice against the family member who abused her

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Shirley always wanted to run a clothing factory. She says this Australian fashion giant killed her dream

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Watch Dateline on Tuesday 9 September at 9.30pm (AEST) on SBS and SBS On Demand

Kumi Taguchi travels to France to meet the people saving its castles. With many properties cheaper than an average Aussie home, Dateline investigates the real cost of keeping them alive.

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Dateline investigates India's obsession with virginity and the archaic practice of virginity tests. We reveal how some women are seeking ways to fake their virginity to avoid exile and abuse.

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In China, the vast majority of sexual abuse cases are not reported to authorities. But Li, a brave young woman speaks out, taking her father to court over crimes committed against her as a child.

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In part two of Dateline's investigation into Mosaic Brands’ collapse, we hear from suppliers in China owed millions. They claim the retailer had a corporate playbook. We ask, was it insolvent trading?

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Dateline investigates the collapse of Mosaic Brands and much-loved labels Noni B, Rivers and Katies. From Australia to overseas, we meet suppliers who allege they were sent under by bad business.

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Last year, the CEO of America's largest private health insurance company was shot in broad daylight. Dateline investigates how the alleged killer has become a symbol of a broken healthcare system.

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With the Dalai Lama turning 90, Dateline looks at China's increasing control over Tibet, and the mysterious disappearance of a young boy who was key to the Dalai Lama's succession plan.

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Dateline travels to Cairo to meet a new generation of women tackling one of the Arab world's biggest taboos. Could sex-education be the solution to rising divorce rates in Egypt?

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Dateline investigates Romania's booming adult camgirl industry. We meet the studio owners, successful camgirls and uncover a wild west of 'ghost studios' with few rules and even less oversight.

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Since the return of the Taliban, woman in Afghanistan have been reduced to a life of isolation and silence, but one radio station is giving women a voice and the chance to continue their education.

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As drug crime surges across the Netherlands, powerful criminal networks are recruiting a new generation of vulnerable youth threatening to shift the nation's image from one of freedom to one of fear.

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Dateline reports from Bangladesh where mega ships go to die. Has regulation forced the industry to clean up its act? Or are these scrapyards the world's dirtiest and most dangerous place to work?

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Nearly 1 in 5 children in America are obese and parents are being urged to pursue radical treatment options. Kumi Taguchi meets the kids who have had life-altering bariatric surgery at age 12.

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Sydney’s Yusuf Zahab has been held in a jail in Syria since he was 15. He's one of thousands being held without charge after having lived under the self-proclaimed Islamic State group.

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