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58-553: The event is held in November each year, and is broadcast on SBS television and showtime movie channels. The IF Awards were first held in 1999, and until 2006 were also known as the Lexus Inside Film Awards , in recognition of its principal sponsor Lexus . Sponsorship since then has included multiple broadcast and event partners, with the new naming rights partner for 2011 being Jameson Irish Whiskey . In 2011,

116-713: A corporation in 1991. Throughout the early 1990s, SBS TV coverage was expanded further to include new regional areas such as the Latrobe Valley , Spencer Gulf , Darwin , northeast Tasmania , Cairns and Townsville . In 1992, SBS's radio and television facilities were gradually relocated to new premises in Artarmon , New South Wales . Radio services were initially located in Bondi Junction and television services in Milsons Point . The new building

174-533: A video on demand application called "SBS On Demand VR", later renamed "SBS VR". SBS has been providing multilingual services since 1975. Alongside news and radio, the SBS in-language units in both Sydney and Melbourne, provide a range of language services for medium to large organisations, private and government businesses. These include accredited translations, typesetting, voiceovers/re-narration, subtitling and video services in over 68 languages. SBS independent (SBSi)

232-592: A year at this stage and not all antennas had worked well with the low-frequency Channel 0. In August 1986, the government proposed legislation that would amalgamate SBS into the ABC . This was highly unpopular with ethnic-minority communities, and after protests from both SBS staff and communities, resulted in the Prime Minister of Australia , Bob Hawke announcing in 1987 that the proposed amalgamation would not proceed. The SBS Radio and Television Youth Orchestra

290-473: Is South Park . As a result of extensive post-World War II immigration to Australia and the end of the controversial and racist White Australia Policy , the federal government began to consider the need for "ethnic broadcasting" – programming targeted at ethnic minorities and mostly delivered in languages other than English. Until 1970, radio stations were prevented by law from broadcasting in foreign languages for more than 2.5 hours per week. In June 1975 at

348-576: Is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect Australia's multicultural society". SBS is one of five main free-to-air networks in Australia. SBS formally came into existence in 1978 as a radio network. Full-time transmission began on a new television channel in 1980. In-show advertising commenced in 2006. Commercial breaks are set at five minutes per hour. SBS's most successful imported television series

406-428: Is 30 percent more than other broadcasters", claimed Brown upon announcing the new move. SBS's commercial breaks remained at their existing statutory limit of five minutes per hour, as opposed to the fifteen minutes per hour permitted on Australia's fully commercial stations. An individual break lasted between one and two minutes. A related change was the launch of a one-hour 6:30 pm edition of World News , replacing

464-519: Is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster . About 80 percent of funding for the company is derived from the Australian taxpayer. SBS operates six TV channels ( SBS , SBS Viceland , SBS World Movies , SBS Food , NITV and SBS WorldWatch ) and seven radio networks (SBS Radios 1, 2 and 3, Arabic24, SBS Chill, SBS South Asian and SBS PopAsia ). SBS Online is home to SBS On Demand video streaming service. The stated purpose of SBS

522-608: The International Refugee Organisation (IRO) from the end of World War II up to the end of 1954 to resettle in Australia from Europe—more than the number of convicts transported to Australia in the first 80 years after European settlement. Following the attacks on Darwin and the associated fear of Imperial Japanese invasion in World War II, the Chifley government commissioned a report on

580-2194: The Jameson IF Awards were held in November in Sydney again. As of 2012, the IF Awards have been 'on hold'. The IF Award for Best Feature Film The Animal Logic IF Award for Best Director The Queensland Events Corporation IF Award for Best Actor The In Style IF Award for Best Actress The Kodak IF Award for Best Cinematography The IF Award for Best Music The Australian Film Commission IF Award for Best Script The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film The Lab Sydney IF Award for Best Short Animation The SBS IF Award for Best Short Documentary The IF Award for Best Documentary The 3 IF Award for Best Music Video The Production Book IF Award for Best Production Design The Cutting Edge IF Award for Best Editing The Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound The Independent Spirit IF Award The Atlab IF Award for Rising Talent ZTudio What IF? Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay (winners in each category are listed first, with nominees in alphabetical order following): SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature Film Screen Australia IF Award for Best Director Queensland Events Corporation IF Award for Best Actor IF Award for Best Actress Screen Australia IF Award for Best Script Sony IF Award for Best Cinematography Dinosaur Designs IF Award for Best Music Cutting Edge IF Award for Best Editing The Production Book IF Award for Best Production Design The Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound IF Award for Box Office Achievement SBS IF Award for Best Documentary St Arnou IF Award for Best Short Documentary Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film Autodesk IF Award for Best Short Animation 3 mobile IF Award for Best Music Video ZTudio What IF? Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay Efilm IF Award for Rising Talent Post Op Group IF Award for Independent Spirit V Australia IF Award for Living Legend Inside Film magazine IF Award for Festival of

638-475: The Snowy Mountains Scheme . This hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in south-east Australia consisted of sixteen major dams and seven power stations constructed between 1949 and 1974. It remains the largest engineering project undertaken in Australia. Necessitating the employment of 100,000 people from over 30 countries, to many it denotes the birth of multicultural Australia. In 1955

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696-695: The UEFA Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. Following "extensive community consultation" in 2003, SBS introduced a range of new programs, including services in Malay , Somali and Amharic – in addition to the expansion of many existing programs. In April 2013, SBS rolled out a major overhaul of its radio schedule . The last major review of the SBS Radio schedule had taken place in 1994, and since then Australia's demographics had changed significantly. With

754-501: The "SBSRadio" identifier and, if their radio permits, by RDS scrolling text on their FM-capable RDS radio. NOW and NEXT data was progressively added to all radio services in 2012 and 2013. This now/next data is displayed on FM RDS Radio (Melbourne/Sydney) and DAB+ receptions areas for radios that can display metadata. NOW and NEXT Radio schedule is also displayed on free-to-air Terrestrial Digital Television (DTV) program guides and on TiVo and TBox where applicable. SBS rolled out

812-550: The 14-day rolling radio schedule over DTV television in November 2012. A radio event (or program) can be viewed and booked/recorded to PVR or the listener reminded. The schedule adapts to daylight saving changes as required. Following the Language Services Review in 2021, SBS re-introduced a range of new and existing programs in revised languages in November 2022. SBS on Demand is a video on demand and catch-up TV service run by SBS. In April 2016, SBS launched

870-594: The 1930s. Calwell coined the term " New Australians " in an effort to supplant such terms as Balt, pommy and wog . The 1% target remained a part of government policy until the Whitlam government (1972–1975), when immigration numbers were substantially cut back, only to be restored by the Fraser government (1975–1982). Some 4.2 million immigrants arrived between 1945 and 1985, about 40 percent of whom came from Britain and Ireland. 182,159 people were sponsored by

928-507: The Australian government and various governments and international organisations. In August Australia welcomed its 50,000th "New Australian" — or rather, the 50,000th displaced person sponsored by the IRO and to be resettled in Australia. The child was from Riga , Latvia . Work began on the Snowy Mountains Scheme – a substantial employer of migrants: 100,000 people were employed from at least 30 different nationalities. Seventy percent of all

986-670: The British, and this caused some alarm in the Australian government, causing it to place restrictions on Southern Europeans sponsoring newcomers and to commence the "Bring out a Briton" campaign. With the increase in financial assistance to British settlers provided during the 1960s, the British component was able to return to the top position in the overall number of new settlers. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Europeans migrated to Australia and over 1,000,000 Britons immigrated with financial assistance. The migration assistance scheme initially targeted citizens of Commonwealth countries; but it

1044-417: The SBS managing director, Shaun Brown , announced the corporation's desire to initiate in-show commercial breaks, in the same manner as the commercial television networks. He said that the move would raise $ 10 million in the first year, as he believes that SBS's current strategy of showing ads between programs "is unpopular with viewers". "On average we lose more than half our audience during these breaks – this

1102-725: The Transmission Services division (intended to manage transmission and self-help services). A New Media division, responsible for the SBS website, was established at the start of 2000 in time for the first webcast of the Australian Film Institute Awards . Ratings continued to increase through 2000 to 2001 – increasing to an overall 5.2% average weekly audience share. In April 2003, SBS Radio dropped four languages from its schedule, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Welsh, and Belarusian, and added four others, Amharic, Nepalese, Malay, and Somali, while increasing

1160-648: The US providing the necessary shipping. Many Eastern Europeans were refugees from the Red Army and thus mostly anti-Communist and so politically acceptable. The 1% target survived a change of government in 1949, when the Menzies government succeeded Chifley's. The new Minister of Immigration was Harold Holt (1949–56). The British component remained the largest component of the migrant intake until 1953. Between 1953 and late 1956, migrants from Southern Europe outnumbered

1218-719: The World Back Home". The network changed its name to simply SBS in February 1985 and soon began daytime transmissions. SBS also expanded to the cities of Brisbane , Adelaide , Newcastle , Wollongong and the Gold Coast in June of that year. On 5 January 1986, SBS ceased broadcasting on the VHF channel 0 frequency. Although many Australians at the time did not have UHF antennas, SBS's VHF licence had already been extended by

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1276-457: The Year "The AUTODESK IF Award for Best Short Animation" The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film The FACB IF Award for Best Short Documentary SBS Best Documentary IF Award The SAE INSTITUTE IF Award for Best Music Video The AFTRS IF Award for Best Direction JAMESON IF Award for Best Script Special Broadcasting Service The Special Broadcasting Service ( SBS )

1334-563: The arrival of immigrants to Australia after World War II, they are still major demographic groups in Australia: This compares with 18% of Australian residents who were aged 60 or over at the time of the census Not all of those enumerated would have arrived as post-war migrants, specific statistics as at 2006 are not available. In September 2022, the Albanese government increased the permanent migration intake from 160,000 to

1392-864: The behest of Minister for Immigration Al Grassby , two "experimental" radio stations began broadcasting: 2EA in Sydney and 3EA in Melbourne (EA stood for "Ethnic Australia"), partly to publicise the Whitlam government's social policy changes to ethnic communities. In March 1976, the Fraser government established the Consultative Committee on Ethnic Broadcasting, followed by the National Ethnic Broadcasting Advisory Council in January 1977. Initially, it

1450-609: The broadcast hours for Cantonese , Mandarin , and Arabic . SBS broadcast the 2004 Athens Olympics in partnership with the Seven Network . and also broadcast Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. Tagalog , Vietnamese and Arabic language broadcasts were added to SBS's WorldWatch television schedule in 2003. However, the Vietnamese community protested the Vietnamese-language service, whose content

1508-423: The camp closed in 1971, some 300,000 migrants had spent time there. By 1951, the government had established three migrant reception centres for non-English speaking displaced persons from Europe, and twenty holding centres, principally to house non-working dependants, when the pressure of arrival numbers on the reception centres was too great to keep families together. The purpose of reception and training centres

1566-405: The channel became SBS Food. In June 2016, SBS announced that SBS 2 was set to be rebranded as SBS Viceland with content from US-Canadian youth Vice Media from November 2016. On 1 July 2019, SBS relaunched their former pay-TV movie channel, World Movies as SBS World Movies and it became a free-to-air channel. On 12 January 2022, SBS announced that a sixth free-to-air television channel, with

1624-514: The content. In May 2008, SBS unveiled a new-look logo as well as a new backronymic slogan: "Six Billion Stories and counting". On 8 May 2012, SBS received $ 158 million in government funding, of which $ 15 million would be used yearly, to fund the formation of a new free-to-air channel devoted to the indigenous peoples of Australia . which would replace the existing National Indigenous Television on 12 December 2012, with 90% of its staff transferring to this new channel. On 12 December 2012, NITV

1682-499: The early 1990s. In 2014, SBS revived its film distribution division as SBS Movies, which then teamed up with SBS' home video distributor Madman Entertainment . Both SBS and Madman released the 2016 American film Hell or High Water in Oceania. Post-war immigration to Australia Post-war immigration to Australia deals with migration to Australia in the decades immediately following World War II, and in particular refers to

1740-483: The first subscription channel to launch was World Movies ; the channel focuses on independent international films. It was closed on 31 January 2018 but relaunched on free-to-air television on 1 July 2019. In April 2010, SBS launched Studio (previously marketed at as STVDIO); that channel focused on arts programming such as classical and popular music, literature, film, visual arts and dance with documentaries and performances. However, Studio closed down on 27 March 2015 and

1798-408: The first time. A 1958 government leaflet assured voters that unskilled non-British migrants were needed for "labour on rugged projects ...work which is not generally acceptable to Australians or British workers." The Australian economy stood in sharp contrast to war-ravaged Europe, and newly arrived migrants found employment in a booming manufacturing industry and government assisted programmes such as

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1856-571: The government set up the Ethnic Television Review Panel, which recommended that SBS should expand multilingual services into television. SBS TV began test transmissions in April 1979 when it showed various foreign language programs on ABV-2 Melbourne and ABN-2 Sydney on Sunday mornings. Full-time transmission began on a new television channel at 6:30 pm on 24 October 1980 ( United Nations Day ). The first program shown

1914-436: The half-hour World News Australia and World Sport programs. In-show advertising commenced on 9 October 2006 during the 7.30 pm broadcast of MythBusters . Former SBS television services are SBS Essential (LCN 31, sporting events, and other digital-only projects, when available) and SBS World News Channel (LCN 32, foreign news service). In 1995, SBS launched a new division called SBS Subscription TV. In October 1995,

1972-475: The new schedule SBS intends to better reflect Australia's ethnic composition. With the addition of six new languages: Malayalam , Dinka , Hmong , Pashto , Swahili and Tigrinya , SBS has brought the total number of languages from 68 to 74. SBS rolled out a trial of RDS (Radio Data System) in the Melbourne and Sydney broadcast areas in November 2012. Radio listeners can identify the SBS Radio service by

2030-403: The new station. SBS programming content was initially imported from the suppliers in the countries-of-origin of Australia's major migrant communities and then subtitled into English. In October–November 1983, the service expanded to service the centres of Canberra , Cooma and Goulburn , subsequently changing its name to Network 0–28. Its new slogan was the eventual long-running "Bringing

2088-483: The one-millionth post-war immigrant arrived in Australia. Australia's population reached 10 million in 1959, up from 7 million in 1945. In 1973, Whitlam government (1972–1975) adopted a completely non-discriminatory immigration policy, effectively putting an end to the White Australia policy. However, the change occurred in the context of a substantial reduction in the overall migrant intake. This ended

2146-459: The post-war wave of immigration Australia has experienced average arrivals of around one million per decade. The breakdown by decade is as follows: The highest number of arrivals during the period was 185,099 in 1969–70 and the lowest was 52,752 in 1975–76. In the 2006 census, birthplace was enumerated as was date of arrival in Australia for those not born in Australia. For the major post-war period non-English speaking immigrant groups enlarged by

2204-490: The post-war wave of predominantly European immigration which had started three decades before with the end of the Second World War and would make the beginnings of the contemporary wave of predominantly Asian Immigration to Australia which continues to the present day. Financial assistance was an important element of the post war immigration program and as such there were a number of agreements in place between

2262-466: The predominantly European wave of immigration which occurred between 1945 and the end of the White Australia policy in 1973. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Ben Chifley , Prime Minister of Australia (1945–1949), established the federal Department of Immigration to administer a large-scale immigration program. Chifley commissioned a report on the subject which found that Australia

2320-530: The radio services were expanded to cover Hobart and Canberra , while SBS TV 's coverage was further expanded to include the New South Wales North Coast and the town of Albury . Comedy Central 's South Park , SBS's most successful imported television series, was first aired in 1997. A time-delay system was installed for South Australia in May 1999, shortly before the establishment of

2378-426: The subject which found that Australia was in urgent need of a larger population for the purposes of defence and development and it recommended a 1% annual increase in population through increased immigration. In 1945, the government established the federal Department of Immigration to administer the new immigration program. The first Minister for Immigration was Arthur Calwell . An Assisted Passage Migration Scheme

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2436-669: The workers were migrants. On arrival in Australia, many migrants went to migrant reception and training centres where they learned some English while they looked for a job. The Department of Immigration was responsible for the camps and kept records on camp administration and residents. The migrant reception and training centres were also known as Commonwealth Immigration Camps, migrant hostels, immigration dependants' holding centres, migrant accommodation, or migrant workers' hostels. Australia's first migrant reception centre opened at Bonegilla, Victoria near Wodonga in December 1947. When

2494-596: The working title SBS WorldWatch , would be launched in 2022. The channel would be free to air and would broadcast all foreign-language bulletins currently broadcast on SBS and SBS Viceland, and new locally-produced news bulletins in Arabic and Mandarin Chinese in prime time. The Arabic and Mandarin bulletins launched on 15 February 2022 through SBS On Demand , while the official trailer for the SBS WorldWatch channel

2552-520: Was Grisha Sklovsky, and the inaugural executive director was Ronald Fowell. The service was initially a radio network, and had oversight only of the two existing stations 2EA and 3EA. It was always intended that it would be enlarged, but this process was controversial – the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations wanted the television functions to be controlled by the ABC. In March 1979,

2610-412: Was a documentary entitled Who Are We? , which was hosted by veteran news presenter Peter Luck. At the time, SBS was broadcasting on UHF Channel 28 and VHF Channel 0 (pronounced as "oh" and not "zero"), with a planned discontinuation of the latter at some time in the future. Bruce Gyngell , who introduced television to Australia in 1956 , was given the task of introducing the first batch of programs on

2668-529: Was also established in 1945 to encourage Britons to migrate to Australia. The government's objective was summarised in the slogan "populate or perish". Calwell stated in 1947, to critics of mass immigration from non-British Europe: "We have 25 years at most to populate this country before the yellow races are down on us." The post-war immigration program of the Chifley government gave them preference to migrants from Great Britain , and initially an ambitious target

2726-610: Was considered feasible for ethnic broadcasting to be delivered by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC); however, this plan was abandoned in mid-1977. In October 1977, the government announced the creation of SBS as a new independent statutory authority for ethnic broadcasting. This was achieved as a result of an amendment to the Broadcasting Act 1942 . SBS formally came into existence on 1 January 1978. The inaugural Chair of SBS

2784-511: Was gradually extended to other countries such as the Netherlands and Italy. The qualifications were straightforward: migrants needed to be in sound health and under the age of 45 years. There were initially no skill requirements, although under the White Australia policy, people from mixed-race backgrounds found it very difficult to take advantage of the scheme. Migration brought large numbers of southern and central Europeans to Australia for

2842-406: Was in urgent need of a larger population for the purposes of defence and development and it recommended a 1% annual increase in population through increased immigration. The first Minister for Immigration , Arthur Calwell , promoted mass immigration with the slogan "populate or perish". It was Billy Hughes, as Minister for Health and Repatriation, who had coined the "populate or perish" slogan in

2900-497: Was officially opened on 10 November 1993 by the prime minister, Paul Keating , and a national radio network was launched in January 1994. The new service initially covered Brisbane, Adelaide , Perth , and Darwin, while original stations 2EA and 3EA were renamed Radio Sydney and Radio Melbourne respectively. However, the new national service was launched on a separate frequency in Sydney and Melbourne in July of that year. Throughout 1996,

2958-475: Was re-launched as an SBS-operated free-to-air channel, replacing SBS4. SBS is a supporter of same-sex marriage and pulled an anti-same-sex marriage advertisement ahead of its telecast of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras . Then managing director, Michael Ebeid , defended SBS's position on the issue. On 17 November 2015, the new food channel, SBS Food Network , was launched. On 17 November 2018,

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3016-483: Was released six days later, which announced the launch date of 23 May. Regardless of state or territory, SBS television services always use the callsign "SBS". On 14 December 2006, SBS announced its intention to change to 720p as its high-definition transmission standard for SBS HD . SBS had previously down converted its scheduled SBS high-definition content to the 576p standard. On 5 June 2012, SBS upgraded its HD format from 720p to 1080i . On 1 June 2006,

3074-417: Was replaced by Foxtel Arts . SBS Radio broadcasts in 74 languages in all Australian states, producing an estimated 13,500 hours of Australian programming for its two frequencies in Sydney and Melbourne as well as for its national network. Much like SBS TV , SBS radio receives funding from a mix of government grants, paid-for government information campaigns and commercial advertising. SBS Radio broadcast

3132-408: Was set of nine British out of ten immigrants. However, it was soon apparent that even with assisted passage the government target would be impossible to achieve given that Britain's shipping capacity was quite diminished from pre-war levels. As a consequence, the government looked further afield to maintain overall immigration numbers, and this meant relying on the IRO refugees from Eastern Europe, with

3190-523: Was soon launched in 1988 with founding conductor Matthew Krel . Plans to introduce limited commercial-program sponsorship, as well as the establishment of SBS as an independent corporation with its own charter, were put in place in July 1989. A program called Eat Carpet , showcasing local and international short films, was also launched in 1989. The formation of the Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991 officially made SBS

3248-588: Was taken from VTV4 , Vietnam 's government-controlled national broadcaster. They found the portrayal of the communist Vietnamese flag and Ho Chi Minh offensive and stated that the program's lack of reporting on political arrests and religious oppression was also offensive, especially to those who had fled the country following the Vietnam War . This backlash prompted SBS to remove the bulletin from schedule and from then on to display disclaimers before all externally produced bulletins in order to distance it from

3306-541: Was the primary production unit of SBS programming, which existed from August 1994 to December 2007. At the end of 2007, SBS independent was merged with the SBS Content and Online Division. The SBS Youth Orchestra was an Australian premier youth orchestra, founded in 1988 by the now late Matthew Krel . It was disbanded in 2013. An online platform that celebrates "the diversity of sexuality in Australia and its multicultural communities". SBS used to distribute films in

3364-949: Was to: provide for general medical examination and x-ray of migrants, issue of necessary clothing, payment of social service benefits, interview to determine employment potential, instruction in English and the Australian way of life generally. The centres were located throughout Australia (dates are those of post office opening and closing. ) Other hostels in New South Wales included Adamstown , Balgownie , Bankstown , Berkeley , Bunnerong, Burwood , Cabramatta , Cronulla , Dundas , East Hills , Ermington , Goulburn , Katoomba , Kingsgrove , Kyeemagh , Leeton , Lithgow , Mascot , Matraville , Mayfield , Meadowbank , Nelson Bay , North Head , Orange , Parkes , Port Stephens, Randwick , St Marys , Scheyville , Schofields , Unanderra , Villawood , Wallerawang and Wallgrove . In

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