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Dateline (AU)

Season 2018 2018

  • 2018-02-13T10:30:00Z on SBS
  • 1h
  • 1d 14h (38 episodes)
  • Australia
  • English
  • News
Dateline is an Australian television current affairs program broadcast on SBS One. Since its debut at 8:00 pm on Friday 19 October 1984, it has focused largely on international events, often in developing or warring nations. Since 2000, Dateline reporters have travelled by themselves without a camera crew or sound engineers. It remains the longest-running international current affairs program in Australia.

38 episodes

Season Premiere

2018-02-13T10:30:00Z

2018x01 Internet Love in a Strange Land

Season Premiere

2018x01 Internet Love in a Strange Land

  • 2018-02-13T10:30:00Z1h

In the remote Faroe Islands there is a shortage of women. Dateline reporter Bernadine Lim looks at how online dating is transforming the old Viking settlement into a new multicultural society. She dives in to the strange, cold, impenetrable Faroe culture to see if love can endure such an extreme culture clash.

Swapped from Manus to Missouri - Dateline meets the refugees swapped in a deal between Australia and the United States. Dateline takes a look at what it’s like arriving in Trump’s America after four years on Manus Island.

Can one Australian woman make a difference in South Sudan’s brutal civil war? We meet the frontline aid worker who ‘thinks like a General’, in order to save lives.

Women were banned from 450 jobs in Ukraine, but now the police force is leading the way on gender reform. They’re recruiting frontline female officers in a bid to change their brutal and bloody reputation.

2018-03-13T10:30:00Z

2018x05 Mexico’s Beach Wars

2018x05 Mexico’s Beach Wars

  • 2018-03-13T10:30:00Z1h

Every year hundreds of thousands of tourists travel to the white sand and aqua blue water of Cancún – but with increasing gang violence scaring locals and tourists alike, will people stop going?

2018x06 Russia's 'Fake' Election

  • 2018-03-20T10:30:00Z1h

Only one person had a chance at winning the Russian election – so why did a former reality TV star challenge Vladimir Putin? And was she a Kremlin plant? We follow Ksenia Sobchak on the campaign trail.

2018-03-27T10:30:00Z

2018x07 Youth In Revolt

2018x07 Youth In Revolt

  • 2018-03-27T10:30:00Z1h

Millennials across America are rising up against President Trump and taking over city hall. Can two millennial mayors beat old politics to save their struggling cities or will youth let them down?

The Vietnam War ended more than 40 years ago, but for many locals the effects of the conflict are felt every day. We investigate how the use of Agent Orange by American forces continues to impact Vietnamese children.

Thousands of African women are trafficked to Italy and forced into sex work. How does a former sex slave who married one of her clients now rescue women from the clutches of human trafficking gangs?

2018x10 China's Family Sacrifice

  • 2018-04-17T11:00:00Z1h

Chinese New Year isn’t just a holiday - it's the largest annual human migration on Earth. We follow two workers as they travel across the country to their home town, the only time all year they’ll see their children.

2018-04-24T11:00:00Z

2018x11 City Without Water

2018x11 City Without Water

  • 2018-04-24T11:00:00Z1h

This year, Cape Town has been on the verge of becoming the first major city to run out of water. Incredibly, they've managed to more than halve the amount of water they use – but will it be enough to save their city?

2018x12 Yemen's Children of War

  • 2018-05-01T11:00:00Z1h

What happens when three Yemeni kids under constant bombing attacks, are asked to report on the warzone they’re living in? An intimate and horrifying portrait of a community struggling to cope with the violence around them.

2018-05-08T11:00:00Z

2018x13 Exploring the Abyss

2018x13 Exploring the Abyss

  • 2018-05-08T11:00:00Z1h

As the world competes to explore the resource rich depths of the ocean, we’re given rare access to a team of Chinese scientists and four trailblazing women as they go on a perilous mission deep underwater.

2018x14 Myanmar's Killing Fields

  • 2018-05-15T11:00:00Z1h

A special investigation into the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar. The film examines evidence that Myanmar’s security forces used systematic rape and terror tactics to expel hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from the country.

2018x15 Ireland's Abortion Debate

  • 2018-05-22T11:00:00Z1h

In Ireland women can go to jail for getting an abortion, even in cases of rape. As the country votes on whether to change its conservative abortion laws, we take the pulse of a nation divided down the middle.

2018-05-29T11:00:00Z

2018x16 The Vegan Wars

2018x16 The Vegan Wars

  • 2018-05-29T11:00:00Z1h

What’s behind the rise of extreme vegan activists? This week we meet a third-generation dairy farmer who’s been called a rapist and a murderer and the Australian vegan activist kicking up a storm in the UK.

2018-06-05T11:00:00Z

2018x17 Made In China

2018x17 Made In China

  • 2018-06-05T11:00:00Z1h

Chinese copy artist Zhao Xiaoyong has sold more than 90,000 Van Gogh reproductions. We follow him to the Netherlands see the real works of an artist who's consumed his life for decades.

2018-06-12T11:00:00Z

2018x18 How To Catch A Pimp

2018x18 How To Catch A Pimp

  • 2018-06-12T11:00:00Z1h

An estimated 100,000 children in the Philippines are involved in prostitution. We go undercover with a Queensland dad who’s working with local police to track down the underground pimps of this criminal world.

All eyes are on the men’s football World Cup, but what about women who play the game? This week we go to three continents, and hear firsthand stories of their passion and struggle for the beautiful game.

In part one of Dateline’s two-part gender special meet the Proud Boys, a group of men who say they are speaking up for a new class of minority: the disenfranchised young male.

The Viking nation of Iceland has become a feminist utopia. We look at how the island country became the best place on earth to be a woman, and why that also means it’s the best place to be a man.

2018-07-31T11:00:00Z

2018x22 Saving China's Pandas

2018x22 Saving China's Pandas

  • 2018-07-31T11:00:00Z1h

China’s dwindling panda population has come back from the brink of extinction. Dateline embeds with conservation groups to find out how their furriest celebrities are faring in the limelight.

This week on Dateline, we meet the young journalists trying to unite Rio de Janeiro’s favelas through a news site, started by a local when he was just 11 years old

2018-08-14T11:00:00Z

2018x24 Trump's Zero Tolerance

2018x24 Trump's Zero Tolerance

  • 2018-08-14T11:00:00Z1h

Is Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy violating human rights? In the days following Trump’s U-turn, Dateline follows one family’s fight to get their 7-year-old son back, after he was taken away at the border.

2018-08-21T11:00:00Z

2018x25 From Pariah to Messiah

2018x25 From Pariah to Messiah

  • 2018-08-21T11:00:00Z1h

Dateline travels to Kenya to meet an intersex preacher making ripples among a conservative Christian population. How has he overcome the stigma surrounding his sex to give voice to the ‘third gender’?

2018-08-28T11:00:00Z

2018x26 India's Hospital Train

2018x26 India's Hospital Train

  • 2018-08-28T11:00:00Z1h

All aboard the Lifeline Express - the hospital train using India's railway network to deliver medical care and life changing operations to the country's most vulnerable.

2018-09-04T11:00:00Z

2018x27 What the FARC?

2018x27 What the FARC?

  • 2018-09-04T11:00:00Z1h

How do some of the world's most notorious guerrilla fighters integrate back into society after putting down their guns? Colombia's FARC rebels are attempting to make their hills a tourist haven, and using a YouTube channel to tell their stories.

2018-09-11T11:00:00Z

2018x28 Un Sex Abuse Scandal

2018x28 Un Sex Abuse Scandal

  • 2018-09-11T11:00:00Z1h

What happens when the peacekeepers meant to protect people, become the most feared? This week Dateline follows the trail of sex abuse left behind by UN peacekeepers, and hears from their victims.

2018x29 The World's Dirtiest Air

  • 2018-09-18T11:00:00Z1h

In Mongolia’s capital, people are literally dying to breathe. This week we visit a city with some of the dirtiest air in the world.

2018x30 The Kids Are Not Alright

  • 2018-09-25T11:00:00Z1h

New Zealand’s Maoris are famed the world over for their warrior culture.

But in a country with the highest teen suicide rate in the world, why are Maori boys barely holding on?

2018-10-02T11:00:00Z

2018x31 Korea's Dog Fight

2018x31 Korea's Dog Fight

  • 2018-10-02T11:00:00Z1h

Do dogs belong on the dinner plate? South Korea is in the midst of a war over a cultural practice as the younger generation defends canines in a battle against customs and tradition.

2018-10-09T10:30:00Z

2018x32 It's A Match

2018x32 It's A Match

  • 2018-10-09T10:30:00Z1h

Tinder has turned the dating game on its head.

But for one young woman, a simple swipe right would go on to save her life.

2018-10-16T10:30:00Z

2018x33 Prison With No Locks

2018x33 Prison With No Locks

  • 2018-10-16T10:30:00Z1h

Last year, 138 prison inmates were killed in Brazil’s overcrowded and violent system.

But could those on the inside be trusted to keep law and order if they were handed the keys?

2018-10-23T10:30:00Z

2018x34 Evil In Paradise

2018x34 Evil In Paradise

  • 2018-10-23T10:30:00Z1h

How has the Dominican Republic, famed for its Caribbean lifestyle, become a hotbed for sex tourism with underage boys and girls, and what is being done to stop it?

2018-10-30T10:30:00Z

2018x35 From Melbourne To Mati

2018x35 From Melbourne To Mati

  • 2018-10-30T10:30:00Z1h

Melbourne’s Greek community leapt to action when wildfires killed 99 people in the Greek seaside town of Mati.

Dateline follows their search for answers and their quest to help the fire ravaged town.

As voters hit the polls for the US mid-term elections Dateline heads to Iowa, a swing state that could stall President Trump’s agenda.

It’s believed 5 million children in India have genius IQs, but are never discovered.

We follow two children from the slums who are as smart as Neil Armstrong and are fighting to achieve their dreams.

As news of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder breaks, Dateline is on the ground in Saudi Arabia investigating the Kingdom’s new reforms for women.

But are the reforms genuine? And do they go far enough?

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