It's been a long and distinguished career for Zanne Mallett, including a 33-year stint as the head of SBS Radio's Danish Program and an extensive career as a subtitler for SBS Television.
She's been honoured for her contribution to the Scandinavian community and multicultural media, and awarded an Australia Day Medal in the General Division category.
Her skills in Danish and English have seen her carve out a career bringing the culture of her homeland to Australia.
In recent years, a surge in worldwide popularity in Danish television drama saw her subtitling skills again in demand.
"I started also doing Unit One a long time ago. And it was so powerful because you have to remember that the scripts are excellent from Denmark."
She said good subtitling meant shortening a script, making it brief and clear enough so that people looked at the picture and at the text at the same time.
"It was so powerful because you have to remember that the scripts are excellent from Denmark."
"You don't want to see them read a long text and then miss the picture," she said. "That's the art of subtitling."
Beyond her subtitling and broadcasting work, Ms Mallet has also been a past Director of The Danish Club in Sydney, Project Coordinator for the Scandinavian Community Welfare Service and the editor of the English-language community newspaper, 'The Scandinavian Herald'.
She said she's proud to be both a Dane and an Australian, saying the longer she lives in Australia the more similarities she sees between the two cultures.
"The Danes are so straightforward and they also have a wonderful sense of humour. We don't take ourselves seriously and I think that's something we share with the Australians and Australians can understand that; this self-deprecating sense of humour."
In 2004 Australian Mary Donaldson married Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and SBS Television broadcast the event.
Ms Mallett and a Danish-speaking colleague provided commentary, a career high for Ms Mallett.
"It was very lighthearted. We got a chance to talk a lot about the Danish Royal family and the Scandinavian culture and so forth. Because as I said we had a free hand. It was fantastic - I could say that was the absolutely the highlight of my career."
