The Sky News People’s Forum: Wentworth will take place tomorrow (Thursday) at 3.30pm AEST.
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SBS making the 2022 Federal Election accessible for multicultural communities, including live streaming the leaders debate in Arabic and Mandarin
SBS will be streaming live Arabic and Mandarin translations of the 2022 Sky News / The Courier-Mail People’s Forum, the debate between Prime Minister The Hon. Scott Morrison MP and Opposition Leader, The Hon. Anthony Albanese MP. Taking place at 7pm AEST tonight, Wednesday 20 April, the interpreted streams will be available on SBS On Demand. The translated forum will be a first for an Australian television network.
SBS Director of Audio and Language Content, David Hua, says SBS’s focus is to effectively support Australia’s diverse communities throughout this election and provide an interface between Australia’s leaders, and culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
“Arabic and Mandarin are two of the largest language groups in Australia. By offering the leaders’ debate in Arabic and Mandarin, we hope to ultimately drive an understanding of the key issues, and enable informed participation in this election.
“We thank Sky News Australia for helping make this possible.”
In addition to live-translating the debate, SBS is making the 2022 Federal Election more accessible for multilingual communities in Australia through a series of events and videos providing impartial information about the election, and clear instructions on how to participate.
SBS has partnered with the Australian Electoral Commission to produce a series of videos subtitled in over 40 languages, explaining the voting process and which combat election misinformation.
The SBS Election Exchange will also return for 2022, with SBS’s language services hosting a series of community-based events in the lead up to the 2022 Federal Election. Running for three weekends from this Saturday 23 April, across eight locations, nineteen of SBS Radio’s programs will head into the community to speak with local candidates and community members.
David Hua says the SBS Election Exchange is an important tool for empowering communities and encouraging engagement with the election.
“The SBS Election Exchange enables an independent and informed approach to policies and politicians at a local level. This is an important outlet, encouraging culturally and linguistically diverse communities to be a part of the national conversation at a local level, providing the opportunity to drive the agenda and discuss the issues that matter to them.”
Commencing this Saturday 23 April in Bankstown, the 2022 SBS Election Exchange will also visit Hobart, Launceston, Dandenong, Broadmeadows, Wagga Wagga, Eastwood and Ballarat.
These latest initiatives build on SBS’s ongoing commitment to multilingual audiences, including the recent launch of its locally produced TV news services in Arabic and Mandarin, multilingual login and navigation on SBS On Demand, and the upcoming launch of the SBS World Watch TV channel on 23 May.
SBS Election Exchange 2022
Bankstown, NSW
Saturday 23 April 10am-2pm at Saigon Place, Bankstown City Plaza
SBS Arabic24, SBS Vietnamese, SBS Cantonese, SBS Urdu, SBS Bangla
Hobart, TAS
Thursday 28 April 12pm-4pm at Multicultural Hub, 65 Hopkins Street, Moonah
SBS Mandarin, SBS Nepali, SBS Greek
Launceston, TAS
Friday 29 April 10am-2pm at Civic Square
SBS Mandarin, SBS Nepali, SBS Greek
Dandenong, VIC
Saturday 30 April 9.30am-1.30pm at Dandenong Market, Clow & Cleeland Streets
SBS Hindi, SBS Vietnamese, SBS Sinhala, SBS Khmer, NITV Radio, SBS Punjabi
Broadmeadows, VIC
Saturday 30 April 10am-2pm at Broadmeadows Central, Pascoe Vale Road
SBS Arabic24, SBS Italian, SBS Greek, SBS Turkish
Wagga Wagga, NSW
Thursday 5 May 10am-2pm at Wagga Marketplace Community Space, 87 Baylis Street
SBS Malayalam, SBS Filipino, SBS Kurdish
Eastwood, NSW
Saturday 7 May 10am-2pm at Eastwood Plaza, 152-160 Rowe Street
SBS Mandarin, SBS Cantonese, SBS Korean, SBS Hindi
Ballarat, VIC
Saturday 7 May 9am-1pm at The Bridge Shopping Mall, Little Bridge Street
SBS Mandarin, SBS Filipino
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News.com.au will have a web stream.
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PVO out of Sydney for the first time in the campaign up in Brisbane for the people’s forum. He also did a live cross to the Sydney bulletin.
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Good article about the limitations of sky news and the endless biased analysis that preceded and followed it.
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What an awful set up for a tv broadcast. A media wall in grey and some pub tables with black stockings over them. Looks shocking
How embarrassing.
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This is interesting from The Age. Good on them for trying to get their message out.
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ABC statement: Federal Election 2022 Leaders Debate
The ABC invites leaders of the main political parties to take part in a debate every Federal election and 2022 is no exception.
We are currently in discussions with both the LNP and Labor to host a debate during the campaign between the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.
The proposed debate will be broadcast live across multiple ABC platforms to provide all Australians with an opportunity to hear both leaders express their views on the issues and policies that matter to voters. It will be hosted by experienced political journalist and presenter of ABC Insiders and Q+A David Speers.
The ABC is encouraged by the discussions so far and looks forward to sharing details of the debate when all parties are in agreement.
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Now that’s how a leaders debate set should look like, Sky should take note.
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Do we have any announcements on next network that will get the second debate?
If it’s like the last federal election Sky news will probably have them all. I don’t think FTA is interested anymore in the debates unless it’s ABC.
The ABC has been requesting to cover one… surely our national broadcaster should be considered.
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Even just through the NPC.
With the way the ABC news channels have been of late - sub par at best, do they really ‘deserve’ an automatic consideration?
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How are they “sub par”?
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If the ABC does host a debate they’d be obligated you’d imagine to make a clean feeds available to all networks. It’d be interesting to see how many other outlets would show it.
Would love to see ‘the worm’ like the old days.
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