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Dateline

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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SBS News

From prisoner to professor

In the US, beginning next year, the Common Application – an online form that enables students to apply to the 800 or so colleges that use it – will no longer ask students about their criminal pasts.

8 min read

SBS News

Josh's Blog: How long do I want to live?

I recently sat down for what would become one of the toughest interviews I’ve ever done. It was on a topic about which most people vacillate from complete denial to total dread, death.

10 min read

SBS News

Comment: Bosnia is a country still bitterly divided

I am a living reminder of a time that now seems forgotten, writes Bosnian Damir Mitrić as he returns to his homeland for Dateline, 20 years after the war that forced his family to flee.

5 min read

Watch Singapore's Toughest Prison: Dateline - SBS

Watch Singapore's Toughest Prison: Dateline

Watch Singapore's Toughest Prison for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!

Watch Taiwan's Dementia Village: Dateline - SBS

Watch Taiwan's Dementia Village: Dateline

Watch Taiwan's Dementia Village for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!

Watch The Cost Of Doing Business: Part 1: Dateline - SBS

Watch The Cost Of Doing Business: Part 1: Dateline

Watch The Cost Of Doing Business: Part 1 for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!

SBS News

Could we all be accused of bad parenting?

Georgina Davies travelled to Norway to report for Dateline on the increase in children being taken away from their parents by the authorities, but it raised questions for the mum of two about how all parents look after their children.

7 min read

SBS News

‘Coronavirus killed my mother. I cried when Trump tested positive’

OPINION: Fiana's mum Isabelle had a very different experience to President Trump when she contracted coronavirus. Despite working in a hospital, the healthcare worker struggled to get a test, and then died a week after her positive result.

4 min read

SBS News

Aung San Suu Kyi: The inside story

Why did one of the most recognisable human rights heroines of the past half-century do nothing about shocking human rights violations taking place in her own backyard?

SBS News

Filming a fake funeral without disturbing the ‘dead’

All of a sudden I’m in a room by myself with just a bunch of coffins, writes Dean Cornish about his story on Korea’s Fake Funerals.

5 min read

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