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Australia is World Champion in Volunteering. Sport, education, welfare, churches: Australia would not be the same without its 6.4 million volunteers. We ask our listeners: Are you a volunteer too? Where and why?

In the first leaders' debate of the election campaign, economic management and the cost of living were the central topics. The discussion between Rudd and Abbott could be summed up as: "The economy, stupid".

"Was für eine Woche!?" with CJ Delling is celebrating one year of smirking, grinning, laughing, wondering and being staggered by people's behaviour on the world stage.

Every week, a summary looks at the highlights of the German program. This time, we discuss the elections, visit an Aussie pub in Hamburg and talk about Australia's purchase of 2,500 German trucks.

There a almost 500,000 Muslims in Australia. Most of them have dual citizenship, which makes them eligible to vote. A lot of them live in Western Sydney. Could they decide the election, in Western Sydney and Australia-wide?

With the election campaign in full swing, our team at SBS portrays the major political parties and their leaders. Today: The Nationals, Bob Katter, Clive Palmer and Pauline Hanson.

With the election campaign in full swing, our team at SBS portrays the major political parties and their leaders. Today: The Greens.  

Archeologists have found artefacts on an island northeast of Darwin that might ask for a rewriting of Australia's history. And somehow the Germans have something to do with it.

Opel is shutting down its operations in Australia.The move, after just 12 months, has surprised the car industry and angered 1600 purchasers of the iconic brand. One of them is Mathias Kopp in Sydney.

Germany is voting too. More than 60 million people are eligible to decide the future of their country, on 22 September. We ask a political scientist in Berlin to compare the German election with the one in Australia.

With the election campaign in full swing, our team at SBS portrays the major political parties and their leaders. Today: The Liberals.    

In this week's talk, we discuss the Australian elections. Our guest is Sydney-based foreign correspondent Heidi Gmür who reports for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) in Switzerland. We ask our listeners: Who will win and why?

With the election campaign in full swing, our team at SBS portrays the major political parties and their leaders. First up: Labor.  

The election race for the prime ministership and most seats in the Federal Parliament has officially begun. An overview of the main parties' key points, major players, and what they are saying, five weeks before "Big Saturday" .

In this week's Weekly Review, we talk about our listeners' first job, we speak to an expert about the end of the mining boom, and we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the German Catholic church in Sydney.