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Passing down culture is an important part of parenting. But how do you do this when your child’s culture is not your own, and you have only ever experienced it as a tourist? Mother Country looks at intercultural adoption through the lives of Australian families who have adopted children from other cultures. Parents and children with Korean, Ethiopian, Colombian, Cambodian and Cook Islands heritage share their thoughts on the complexities of intercultural adoption, and how they help their kids understand their birth culture.

Mother Country

We're talking about life and issues that affect you in settling in Australia.

Settlement Guide

Insightful is a new podcast series from SBS, hosted by Kumi Taguchi. From sex and relationships to health, wealth, and grief Insightful offers deeper dives into the lives and first person stories of former guests from the acclaimed TV show, Insight.

Insightful

Let’s face it, learning English is torture. Time to take revenge. Bad English is an audio support group for anyone who’s ever had to learn English, chaired by comedian Ivan Aristeguieta. Ivan and guests poke fun at the infuriating absurdity of learning the world’s most-studied language – unpacking rules and nuances that make learning English a misery for millions around the world, and leave even Anglophones scratching their heads.

Bad English

Kickin’ Back is the modern footy show in its purest form. Join former Saint Gilbert McAdam to dissect the hustle and bustle of each week in footy, before delving deeper into the narratives and stories in the game. From a debut match, being traded, the trailblazers and the inner sanctum Kickin' Back looks to cover more than just what happens between the goal squares. So, kick back, relax and enjoy some fresh and honest takes on the game we love from some of the most loved faces in footy.

Kickin’ Back with Gilbert McAdam

At SBS Italian we realise that for a non-native speaker our speech delivery could be very fast and difficult to follow. Fear no more! To make things right, we have started “Slow Italian, Fast Learning”, the very best of the week’s news, read at a slower pace, with Italian and English transcripts.

Slow Italian Fast Learning

SBS Examines is a podcast dedicated to dispelling misinformation and disinformation impacting Australia’s social cohesion, especially in multicultural and multilingual communities. Each episode provides clear insights on critical issues to empower listeners and foster a more informed, connected society. Subscribe now to stay updated and be part of the conversation.

SBS Examines

Individuals who are changing the society in which we all live

Change Agents

Listen to this historic call for ‘Voice, Treaty and Truth’ in more than 20 Aboriginal languages (from communities in the Northern Territory and from Northern Western Australia) and over 60 languages to serve Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities, created with the purpose of continuing the national dialogue with all Australians.

In May 2017, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates came together at the First Nations National Constitutional Convention near Uluru and presented the Uluru Statement from the Heart to the Australian people.

The Statement calls for a First Nations Voice to Parliament, enshrined in the constitution, and a process for agreement making (Treaty) and truth-telling. It was the culmination of 13 deliberative Regional Dialogues across Australia with First Nations communities. The Statement seeks to establish a relationship between Australia's First Nations peoples and the Australian nation based on truth, justice and self-determination. Music by Frank Yamma.

The Uluru Statement from the Heart in Your Language

Let Me Tell You is a podcast from SBS Voices where eight Australians will tell you, in their own voice, incredible real stories that will sometimes surprise you, move you, and leave you hanging on to every word. Hosted by Sarah Malik and Caitlin Chang. Artwork by Lilian Darmono.

Let Me Tell You

Ease into the English language and Australian culture. We make learning English convenient, fun and practical. Don’t just learn a language, love language!

SBS Learn English

What are the challenges women face to take up professional football? This series looks at stories from women who aren't allowed to watch sporting events at stadiums in their home country, to places like Australia where many migrant women have to give up on their football dreams.

Moving Goalposts: Beyond Barriers

Sensational headlines, fear campaigns and dehumanising language can be all that we hear about migrant and refugee communities settling in Australia. And too often migrant women are framed only as the mother of the children or the wife of the male refugee. But each one has her own story and reasons for travelling across the world to put down new roots in a strange land. On New Home, hear from migrant and refugee women who are quietly building new lives in regional Australia, making friends, and finding community.

New Home

Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Hindi-speaking Australians.

SBS Hindi

What is it really like to start calling Australia home? My First Year on Aussie Soil is an SBS podcast hosted by comedian and actor Suraj Kolarkar. As a youngster he moved Down Under from India and has been obsessed with immigrant stories ever since. 

My First Year on Aussie Soil

Abebe Bikila. Nadia Comaneci. Guillermo Vilas. Each of them is a household name in some part of the world but do you know their incredible stories? Discover inspirational champions who are idolised by millions but perhaps unknown to us here in Australia. Stories of resistance, resilience, and Olympic records. "There are countries where only your dream can make you a reality." Hosted by Christophe Mallet and Dario Castaldo.

Who's Your Don Bradman?

Living with or caring for someone with a mental illness has its challenges - and when your loved one is dealing with an eating disorder those challenges can seem insurmountable.

The Disruptive Companion

Wiradyuri language is integral to Wiradyuri cultural identity. Our language is our culture. Ngiyang (‘language’) is the story of how the Wiradyuri language is being reclaimed by the Wiradyuri people of central NSW and beyond. Hear from Uncle Stan Grant Senior, who has dedicated his life's work to the Wiradyuri language, and learn how this reclamation journey has enriched the lives of Wiradyuri speakers, learners and teachers. Wiray Ngiyang, Wiray Mayiny - No language, no people.

Ngiyang

Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Cantonese-speaking Australians.

SBS Cantonese

Everybody eats, but who gets to define what good food is? Join food writer Jess Ho on a journey through their pantry to dissect how Australian palates came to be. Meet expert eaters, farmers, researchers and chefs fighting to have their voice recognised - through the ingredients they champion, the aisles they stock, the prices they charge and the people they hire. People who dare to think differently and are all curious about the same question: what is good taste anyway?

Bad Taste

Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Mandarin-speaking Australians.

SBS Mandarin

The Idiom is a podcast that explores weird and wonderful idioms from Australia and around the world. Join host Rune Pedersen on a journey of cultural discovery through the quirky little phrases that pepper our everyday speech. We’ll chat with language professionals, cultural experts, and self-professed language nerds to find out how our words shape the world around us. So sit tight, bite the bullet, and jump on the bandwagon with The Idiom, produced by Think HQ CultureVerse and SBS.

The Idiom

Chinese-ish is a podcast about what it’s like being a young Chinese-Australian in today’s Australia, and the many different things that can mean. Hosted by Wing Kuang and Mark Yin. Artwork by Joanna Hu

Chinese-ish

Have you ever thought about how much of who you are comes from your grandparents? Comedian Lizzy Hoo is on a quest to unravel our deepest multicultural relationships – the ones with our grandparents. On Grand Gestures, notable Australians take you inside their family, culture, and traditions by introducing you to the grandparents who made a huge impact on them. Hear about Lizzy’s Chinese Malaysian Irish Australian family line, find out what journalist Pat Abboud’s Teita and Gedo taught him about love, how actor Pia Miranda embraces her Nonna’s Sicilian superstitions, and the lessons about food and family that chef Alice Zaslavsky learnt from her Babushkas. 

This show is the nonna bear hug we all need, the anchor our grandparents provide in a complex world. Wrap yourself up in Grand Gestures - a podcast from SBS Audio produced by Deadset Studios.

Grand Gestures

Grab your favourite nibbles and take a seat for the SBS Book Club, hosted by Sarah Malik. Read and listen along as we delve into the year’s best novels - chatting with some of the biggest names in Australian publishing including Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko, Shankari Chandran, Mirandi Riwoe and more. Each week, we’ll discuss the book characters you love, hate, and love to hate. We'll dive into portrayals of what Australia was, is and could be. And we'll explore themes of war, race, family, friendship, love and the power of a great story. Get ready for some book club brawls and good times, with the SBS Book club.

The SBS Book Club

The SBS Cycling Central Podcast is a bi-weekly cycling podcast. A sometimes irreverent and punchy look at the world of professional cycling with some serious bits profiling the big races and riders thrown in.

SBS Cycling Podcast

You know pizza, pasta and tiramisu, but have you tried the Ugly Ducklings of Italian Cuisine? They’re dishes you won’t see on Instagram, but that are loved by many, even when they're illegal. Listen to all episodes in English or Italian for a fresh portrait of Italian food.

The Ugly Ducklings of Italian Cuisine

Wellbeing as we know it now has been constructed from a Western perspective, so what does the oldest continuing culture in the world have to say about methods of wellbeing? On Noongar Wellbeing, Ballardong Whadjuk Noongyar woman Brooke Collard yarns with six Elders, exploring their ideas on creating the tools to care for yourself and your community.

Noongar Wellbeing

While death may be one of life’s only certainties, most of us are woefully unprepared for it. In Grave Matters, hosts Anthony Levin and Nadine J. Cohen explore grief, death care and the business of dying, asking experts the questions we’re all too scared to ask. You’ll hear from a forensic scientist, a First Nations grief counsellor, a Muslim death doula, a tech innovator, funeral director and other inspiring, passionate people whose life's work is helping us to better navigate death. Lift your spirits with Grave Matters: a lively look at death.

Grave Matters

WARNING: These chats are raw and raunchy, definitely for adult ears only.

This is a companion podcast to SBS’s steamy new series Erotic Stories. Lean in for unfiltered conversations, behind the scenes titbits and real-life stories about love and lust, as we explore the themes of each episode in graphic detail. 

Erotic Stories

What do you get when a Japanese Jewish woman, a Korean woman and a Nigerian Malawian woman get together to chat about living, working and raising families in Australia? You get Like Us, a podcast hosted by Anna Yeon, Noè Harsel and Zione Walker-Nthenda. They're three Australian women from different cultural backgrounds, discussing their personal relationship with Australia and Australia’s relationship with them.

Like Us

Interviews and feature reports from SBS News.

SBS News in Depth

Good writing begins with questions. What does it take to write a good story? How do you get your readers to connect with a character? Each week we'll speak to different writers about memoir writing. Hosted by Caitlin Chang and Sarah Malik.

The New Writer's Room

A series of stories of place, culture and being, shared by Elders of the Gumbaynggirr, Biripi, Dunghutti and Worimi nations from the Mid North Coast of NSW.

Conversations on Country

Join Fiona Williams, Haidee Ireland, Sana Qadar, and Natalie Hambly every week with SBS' award-winning The Handmaid's Tale companion podcast, Eyes on Gilead. There is a lot going on in this series and we think it helps to talk it out at the end of every episode. BEST COMPANION PODCAST - FINALIST - 2022 New York Festivals Radio Awards BEST ARTS & CULTURE PODCAST - BRONZE AWARD - 2020 Australian Podcast Awards BEST FANCAST - 2019 Australian Podcast Awards

Eyes on Gilead: A Handmaid's Tale Podcast

If you can see it, you can be it. But what happens when you look around and nobody looks like you? Join host Yumi Stynes for Seen, a new SBS podcast about cultural creatives who have risen to excellence despite arriving in a role-model vacuum. We’ll hear from trailblazers like writer Yassmin Abdel-Magied, musician Ray Ahn, and Olympian Ellia Green about the transformative moments they felt seen.

Seen

Some people spend years seeking answers to the questions; ‘Why did I do that to them?’ ‘Why did you do that to me?’ Bullying touches most of us at some point in our lives. Over six episodes, Harmful asks how we can better tackle this pervasive issue in our schools, workplaces and online. Hear personal testimonies that reveal what motivates bullies, what support victims need, and what it takes to heal. Hosted by Rae Johnston.

Harmful

A bulletin of the day’s top stories from SBS News.

SBS News Updates

While many of us have heard of endometriosis, few people know much about this disease that impacts roughly ten per cent of all women. Endometriosis can be a stubborn, frustrating and painful chronic condition with a wide variety of symptoms. It can have severe impacts on health and wellbeing. But taboos and a lack of general awareness about the condition, can lead to delayed diagnosis for sufferers and ineffective treatments. This three part series explains what endometriosis is, how it is diagnosed, and how to live with the disease. Series produced by Marianne Murat.

About Endometriosis

SBS Easy French is your learning companion. In partnership with the Alliance Française de Melbourne, this podcast will entertain and inform you in French, providing you snippets from our SBS French program at a manageable pace.

SBS Easy French

Goodways is a mob-made podcast about all things Blak life. The hosts, Jonah Johnson, Jodan Perry, Alexis Moran, Jason Haji-Ali and Bronte Charles, provide nuanced perspectives on a range of themes and topics including identity, childhood, and relationships — all in a light-hearted environment.

Goodways

It’s a question that reverberates across Europe and the world each year, growing louder as May draws closer… Hang on, why is Australia in Eurovision? To get the definitive answer on the record once and for all, SBS has enlisted the help of Mike and Dale from the Aussievision podcast. We’ll trace the history of Australia’s involvement in Eurovision over three episodes, with help from experts, producers and past Aussie Eurovision entrants.

Why is Australia in Eurovision?

Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Arabic-speaking Australians. 

Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Vietnamese-speaking Australians.

SBS Vietnamese

My Ramadan features well-known Muslim personalities and everyday Australians sharing their experiences of Ramadan and Eid through five specially themed episodes. Join host Sarah Malik and guests including academic Susan Carland and Masterchef contestant Amina El Shafei as they talk navigating work while fasting, what it means to slow down and reject hustle culture, and how Ramadan connects to spirituality and self. We discover favourite Iftar food traditions and how Ramadan intersects with belonging and identity for Gen Z. The series culminates in a special Eid episode, exploring how mixed-culture families adapt and celebrate Eid and Ramadan today.

My Ramadan

There’s no handbook on how to raise bilingual kids. It can take a lot of effort to pass on language to your children. But you’re not alone. Join host Dr Elaine Laforteza to hear the stories of families struggling with passing on language, and get helpful advice and practical tips from experts including speech pathologists and linguists. Raising children bilingually in English-dominant countries requires persistence and resourcefulness, especially if your mother language is not widely spoken. But it’s worth the effort because the benefits for kids are immeasurable. My Bilingual Family is hosted by Dr Elaine Laforteza. Produced by Masako Fukui and Sheila Ngoc Pham.

My Bilingual Family

Love Me, Love My Anxiety is a podcast from SBS Voices exploring what it's like navigating the world of dating and relationships when you're already partnered up with anxiety. Hosted by Kevin Jin.

Love Me, Love My Anxiety

Australia’s diverse South Asian communities are united by one thing, our love of cricket. Colours of Cricket is a unique look at the South Asian diaspora and how we’re changing the face of cricket in Australia. Over eight episodes, hear from international stars, commentators, sports historians, fans and community players. Find out how cricket is helping new migrants feel at home in Australia and breaking down social barriers, how players from the subcontinent are keeping club cricket alive, and why kids from the Indian subcontinent are underrepresented in the big leagues. Colours of Cricket is a collaborative project from SBS Radio's South Asian language programs; SBS Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Nepali, Punjabi, Sinhala, Tamil, and SBS Urdu.

Colours of Cricket

Mindfulness, meditation, living in the present... these are all buzz terms you’ve probably heard. Maybe even tried. But if you haven’t yet found your fit, join host Leah Vandenberg to try various meditation styles from across the world. Learn about Filipino Hilot, Japanese forest bathing, Hawaiian ho'oponopono and more. Whether you’ve been meditating for years, or this is your first time, these short meditations led by experienced teachers will fit neatly into your day.

Great Minds

Samoan rugby league players have been big names in the Aussie league for many years. They are renowned for their strength and skill, but what motivates them to become great athletes and what are their lives like off the field? Tama Samoa is a three part podcast series exploring the world of rugby league from a Samoan perspective. Host Joyce Matai'a chats with current NRL players Ava Seumanufagai, Joshua Papalii, and Stephen Crichton, as well as OG’s of the game Leo Tanoi, Joe Galuvao and Leaupepe Nigel Vagana. Hear them reflect on family, cultural identity, achieving success, and challenges on and off the field.

Tama Samoa: Samoans in the NRL

Should you really add olive oil or salt to your coffee, or microwave your tea? Can rice and bread be that bad for us if we’ve been eating these staples forever? Which seafoods are sustainable? And should I say no to cheese boards? It can be so tricky trying to consume the ‘right things’, and the forces that shape our diets go far beyond what’s supposedly ‘good for us’. On Should You Really Eat That?, food writer Lee Tran Lam untangles the social, cultural and nutritional confusion around the food and drinks we consume – with the help of chefs, dietitians and other guests.

Should You Really Eat That?

A daily five minute news wrap for English learners and people with disability.

SBS News in Easy English

Your daily ten minute finance and business news wrap with SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves.

SBS On the Money

As you're watching Alone Australia season two, delve deeper into each episode with season one winner Gina Chick and SBS News presenter Darren Mara on Alone Australia: The Podcast. Join Gina and Darren to unpick every success, mistake, near-miss, and lesson learnt. They’ll also take you behind the scenes in interviews with the show’s cast and creators. What challenges will these ten participants face in the wet, mountainous wilds of Aotearoa, who has got the right strategy, and who will tough it out the longest to win?

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