Dateline (AU)

Season 2023

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.
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30 Episodes
  • The Church and the Assassin
    E1
    The Church and the AssassinKumi Taguchi goes inside the world of a controversial church some call a 'cult'. This church is under investigation for its role in Japanese politics since the assassination of Prime Minister Abe.
  • Breaking Up With Britain
    E2
    Breaking Up With BritainAhead of King Charles' coronation, reporter Darren Mara heads to Jamaica, where the country is confronting a history of colonisation and considering whether it's time to cut ties with the crown.
  • Welcome Back to Syria
    E3
    Welcome Back to SyriaThe Awad sisters fled Syria 10 years ago as children, now they could be sent back. Dateline investigates whether Denmark's deportation programs are a death sentence for thousands of Syrians.
  • Miracle Birth
    E4
    Miracle BirthDateline follows France's first uterus transplant. Deborah was told she would never carry her own child, but a medical breakthrough made it possible for her own mother to donate her womb.
  • Scotland's Airbnb Crackdown
    E5
    Scotland's Airbnb CrackdownHoliday rental apps like Airbnb are accused of causing residential rental costs to soar. Dateline travels to Scotland with some of the harshest policies against short term lets in the world.
  • Love And Race In South Africa
    E6
    Love And Race In South AfricaJanice Petersen travels to South Africa to see if love can conquer all in a country still divided by race.
  • Children For Sale
    E7
    Children For SaleDateline follows a mother, private detective and armed bounty hunters trying to rescue teenagers from a sex trafficking underworld in Texas.
  • Teens, Love And War
    E8
    Teens, Love And WarDateline meets the teenagers coming of age in Ukraine. We follow them as they fall in love, deal with grief, and head off to war.
  • Rat Hunters
    E9
    Rat HuntersThe Mayor of New York has declared a war on rats. Dateline follows a group of local vigilantes and their dogs tackling the city's rat problem.
  • Bank Robbers
    E10
    Bank RobbersThere has been a spate of bank robberies across Beirut. Dateline investigates why one woman held up a bank to get her own cash back.
  • Teen Mums: Pregnant And Trapped
    E11
    Teen Mums: Pregnant And TrappedGuatemala is facing a child pregnancy crisis. Dateline meets the young indigenous girls who have been forced into motherhood after sexual assault and the people fighting against this cycle of abuse.
  • China's Underground Tutors
    E12
    China's Underground TutorsDateline investigates why the Chinese government banned the after-school tutoring industry and how families are finding new ways to give their kids a head start.
  • Canada's Fentanyl Warning
    E13
    Canada's Fentanyl WarningWhat can Australia learn from Canada's overdose epidemic? Dateline meets the doctors and dealers giving hard drugs to users to fix a fentanyl crisis.
  • Dealing With Debt
    E14
    Dealing With DebtBritain is facing a cost-of-living crisis. Dateline meets the families struggling to stay afloat and the people helping them deal with rising debt.
  • Italy's 1 Euro Homes
    E15
    Italy's 1 Euro HomesProperty prices and rising interest rates have made home ownership in Australia seem impossible. Dateline travels to a rural town in Italy where you can buy a house for 1 Euro.
  • The School For Macho Men
    E16
    The School For Macho MenDateline visits a Colombian school teaching men to do domestic duties and connect with their emotions. Can this experiment help tackle gender-based violence and culture of toxic masculinity?
  • The Best Place To Have A Baby?
    E17
    The Best Place To Have A Baby?Janice Petersen meets the new parents spending a month in a luxury post-natal hotel in Taiwan. Do these centres and the tradition of confinement give mum and baby a better start?
  • Combat Medics
    E18
    Combat MedicsWith rare access inside a frontline field hospital, we meet the Ukrainian medics putting their lives on the line to save wounded soldiers, including Russian POWs.
  • Beauty Kings
    E19
    Beauty KingsDateline goes inside the world of male beauty pageants in the Philippines to see who will be crowned Man of the World. But is this growing industry perpetuating unhealthy male body image?
  • Being Queer In Putin's Shadow
    E20
    Being Queer In Putin's ShadowDateline meets the Russian exiles who have fled Putin's harsh anti-LGBTQI+ laws. But will they find a safe haven in neighbouring Georgia? Or will Putin's conservative crackdown follow them?
  • Indonesia's Vaping Addicts
    E21
    Indonesia's Vaping AddictsWith Australia cracking down on e-cigarettes, Dateline looks at why Indonesia has gone the other way. With over six million vapers and lax regulation, are they headed for a new addiction crisis?
  • Inside Little North Korea
    E22
    Inside Little North KoreaDateline meets a community of Koreans who live in Japan but feel a close bond with one of the world's most repressive states, North Korea. Will rising regional tensions put their way of life at risk?
  • Sex, Drugs And Bad Tourists
    E23
    Sex, Drugs And Bad TouristsAmsterdam is re-branding, with plans to move the famous red-light district out-of-town in an attempt to lure a better type of tourist. Dateline meets the sex workers who are fighting back.
  • Japan's Cheap Homes
    E24
    Japan's Cheap HomesAs homeownership becomes increasingly expensive, we travel to Japan, where millions of abandoned houses are being sold cheaply or given away. Can foreign buyers help solve Japan's empty house problem?
  • India's Population Explosion
    E25
    India's Population ExplosionIndia is now the world's most populous country. Dateline investigates how they are grappling with rising unemployment and introducing a raft of family planning measures to curb population growth.
  • The Sámi Voice
    E26
    The Sámi VoiceAs Australia heads towards the referendum, Karla Grant travels to Norway to understand how their Indigenous parliament works. She investigates if the Sámi Parliament is being heard in the halls of power?
  • Sex Tourism: Predators In Paradise
    E27
    Sex Tourism: Predators In ParadiseDateline investigates Colombia's booming sex tourism trade and the foreigners who come to prey on minors. We join police raids on brothels, hear from survivors and meet the accused now behind bars.
  • Japan's Taken Children
    E28
    Japan's Taken ChildrenKarla Grant reports from Japan on the controversial sole custody system that's snared Australian children in parental abduction and custody cases, preventing some parents from seeing their kids.
  • Adrift In Australian Waters
    E29
    Adrift In Australian WatersPeople smugglers are preying on Sri Lanka's vulnerable with lies of safe passage to places like Australia. Dateline investigates the new wave of boats and how Australia is trying to stop them.
  • Making a Militant
    E30
    Making a MilitantDateline reports from the West Bank where a new militant network The Lion's Den has triggered a wave of violence and is weaponizing social media to recruit young Palestinians.
 
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