The music style hip-hop was originally a voice and soundtrack of the dispossessed. These days though, it’s all bragging and booty.
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Medical interpreters at front line in Victoria
When you seek medical advice, it goes without saying that being able to communicate your problem is pretty important.
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Multicultural face of Aust fashion
Australian-born Macedonians and Croatians are the big names at this year’s Melbourne Fashion Week.
Latter-day Saints view of Islam
Much of the commentary and analysis we hear about issues involving the Islamic faith comes through a media which is secular, or in some countries, through the filters of a dominant religion. Or in subtle ways, a combination of both.
Pakistan’s Dame Edna with an edge
If you’re up-to-date in your knowledge of Pakistani actors, you may have heard of Ali Saleem.
Melbourne Chinatown’s secrets
Melbourne’s Chinatown is an area of discrete alleys, strange angled doorways, octagonal windows and imperfect stone blocks.
But did you know it was designed that way for a reason?
Mud overwhelms Indo island
Next to Indonesia where in May this year, a drilling accident in the south of the island of Surabaya caused a massive rupture in the earth, unleashing a still-uncontained flow of hot, toxic mud.
Getting to the bottom of ETimor crisis
The violence that broke out in East Timor earlier this year is the subject of a special investigation by the SBS Dateline program.
Anniversary: end of Soviet Communist Party
For the fifteen countries that compose the former Soviet Union, memories of August 1991 bring back a variety of emotions… a sense of elation for some and for others, a sense of loss.
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Homeward bound Lebanese find destruction
As people return to their homes in Lebanon, they’re finding that the force of Israel’s aerial attack has left them with nothing and, some are saying, it’s like their own version of September 11.
