SBS today launched SBS CQ: Cultural Intelligence an online resource to be followed by a televised forum to advance the debate about diversity in Australia.
SBS has launched a Multicultural Television Production Trainee Scheme to provide short-term work placements for participants from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, including Indigenous backgrounds, on SBS commissioned productions.
SBS has announced that it will broadcast Al Jazeera news from Monday 8
August.
The arrangement will see a half hour Al Jazeera English news bulletin
shown weekdays at 3.30pm, in addition to a full hour on Sunday
afternoons at 2pm, on SBSONE.
21 June 2011 - To coincide with SBS’s ground breaking documentary series Go Back To Where You Came From, SBS has released research into Australian attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers.
15 April 2011 - The Board of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is pleased to announce that after an international search, Mr Michael Ebeid has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of SBS. He will commence on 13 June 2011, succeeding Shaun Brown, who had previously announced his retirement.
15 March 2011 - SBS and its transmission partner Broadcast Australia have teamed up to support a young Indigenous news and current affairs cadet for 2011.
17 February 2011 - SBS today welcomed the Australian Government’s renewed commitment to
multiculturalism following the release of a new policy by Immigration
Minister Chris Bowen last night.
