SBS Election Exchange is in your Community

SBS Election Exchange is in your Community

Thursday 9 June, 2016

News Release

The SBS Election Exchange is a series of community-based events hosted by SBS Radio's language programs in the lead up to the 2016 Federal Election. SBS Radio invites locals to come along, meet their local candidates and join the debate.

Each SBS Election Exchange event will involve SBS Radio taking its radio studio out to communities, interviewing community leaders, local representatives and federal election candidates from the major Australian political parties.

The SBS Election Exchange will engage with SBS Radio's six largest language programs, which represent close to half the SBS Radio audience. The programs hosting the Election Exchange events are Arabic, Cantonese, Greek, Italian, Mandarin and Vietnamese.

SBS Radio Content Manager, Mark Cummins said SBS's aim is to bring the election and policies to a local level for our audiences and help them make sense of the policies, in an independent and informed way.

We want to give our diverse communities the opportunity to speak about the issues that matter to them in their language and inspire them to take part in the national conversation. The SBS Election Exchange events empower multilingual communities to lead the agenda.

SBS Election Exchanges will be held in Liverpool, Chatswood and Bankstown in Sydney and Federation Square in Melbourne from 16 June to 25 June.

The SBS Election Exchange in Liverpool will be hosted by SBS Arabic24. Drive presenter Heba Kassoua will present and Arabic24 Marhaba program will broadcast live from 4-7pm.

SBS Radio's Greek and Italian programs will host an Election Exchange at the Refugee Week Launch in Federation Square on Sunday 19 June from 2pm. SBS Greek will broadcast live from 4-6pm.

SBS Mandarin and Cantonese will be at Chatswood Mall Markets on Thursday 23 June and SBS Vietnamese will be in Bankstown on Saturday 25 June.

For more information visit sbs.com.au/radio

To join the conversation #SBSRadio

SBS Election Exchange Events

Liverpool Resource Migrant Centre

Hosted by SBS Arabic24

Thursday 16 June, 3.30pm - 7pm

Refugee Week Launch - Federation Square Melbourne

Hosted by SBS Italian and SBS Greek

Sunday 19 June, 2 - 6pm

Chatswood Mall Markets

Hosted by SBS Mandarin and SBS Cantonese

Thursday 23 June, 11am - 2pm

Saigon Place, Cnr Chapel St and Bankstown City Plaza

Hosted by SBS Vietnamese

Saturday 25 June, 10am - 1.30pm

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