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Voters are finally about to go to the polls to decide who will govern Australia for the next three years. Throughout the campaign, opinion polling has suggested that Labor is facing a comprehensive defeat. But both Labor and the Coalition are tell...

Michael Danby is one of 150 Federal Members in Canberra. He is the Incumbent of Melbourne Ports, a sprawling seat in Melbourne's affluent and socially progressive inner South. In this candid interview, he talks about his German roots and why Mr Ru...

The tragic death of a German migrant in Australia has the potential to rattle the imagination and/or spook the mind: 88-year-old Margarete Soder died in a car crash, on the exact day and hour of her husband's own accidental death in 1957.

529 candidates are trying to win one of 40 available seats in the Australian Senate. Thanks to the much-maligned preferences system, small parties traditionally push way above their weight. We explain why, and to what effect.

Germans love their pets, particularly dogs. But did you know there are dog hotels in Germany which look after those pets when their masters go on vacation? Our SBS correspondent visits one of those places in Saarbrücken!

The Australian Sex Party has numerous candidates in every state. One of them is Helma Aschenbrenner. We ask her and her peers: What are the party's aims and how does it justify its name?

Melbourne based German author Sabine Nielsen talks about her latest book on the SBS talk on Monday night. She gives an insight into the German migration experience and answers questions by listeners who share their stories.

What's the definition of a marginal seat? Why are they so important in determining the outcome of an election? These are just two of many questions discussed in this timely feature.

Every Sunday, we take a look at the highlights of our daily program. Today, we hear from German speaking Australian politicians and from the far north of Germany, where 2000 people speak a unique language.

Simone Kermes, coloratura soprano, is touring Melbourne and Sydney with the Brandenburg Orchestra. In the talk with Adrian Plitzco she is even contemplating to do a stage dive.

Greens incumbent Adam Bandt and Labor's candidate Cath Bowtell fought it out at a public forum in Melbourne's suburb of Carlton.

Today's edition is for once not in Schwiizerdüütsch but in German because it is about Germans living and working in Switzerland.

This week Prime Minister Kevin Rudd claimed to have found an accounting error amounting to what he called a 10 billion dollar fraud in Coalition policy costings. Rudd argues that savings identified had been deliberately overstated. He also release...

"Was für eine Woche!?" with CJ Delling thinks hard about pea sized brains, suggests new ideas for the election campaign and feels pitty for police dogs.

He was born in Germany in 1958 and came to Australia with his five older siblings and parents in 1961: Eric Abetz. In order to be eligible for the Australian Senate, he had to renounce his German citizenship. An interview.