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In today's Echo Helvetia, we travel to Wagga Wagga, in rural New South Wales. The city, which lies 450 kilometres south-west of Sydney and 460 kilometres north of Melbourne, has 62,000 inhabitants. One of them is Swiss-born Elisabeth Rorrison, who...

Pamela Rauleder takes us into the world of flowers. Bushflowers are often so small, that they are easily overlooked. But if you look closely, they flora of Australia offers a whole world of its own. This is captured by the German-Australian photog...

This week's highlights with CJ Delling: Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant, the Pope joins Twitter and Happy Birthday SMS!

The Persian-German artist Yadegar Asisi is famous for his monumental panaroma paintings such as the Berlin Wall or Mount Everest. His next project is the Great Barrier Reef.

In the studio with Trudi Latour were five managers of the not-for-profit organisation Froebel - Competence for Children. Today we continue our discussion from last week about the principles of bilingual education, and hit on the topic of how presc...

The exhibition "New olds" opens at the RMIT Gallery in Melbourne. It explores the relationship between tradition and innovation in contemporary design.

Florian Habicht´s new movie hits Australian cinemas. The German born film-maker talks with Adrian Plitzco about the story.

Studying abroad in Australia or New Zealand is the dream of many Germans. For some students it takes too much effort to organise the trip to the other side of the world. The academy association in Essen helps those, who want the dream to become tr...

"Work needs to be fun" says Fridtjof Detzner. Together with two friends the young German came up with the idea to produce a website that helps people to build their own webpage.    

More and more migrants find a job in Germany. This is one of the results of a recent OECD study in 34 countries. Germany improved a lot - Australia is still exemplary.

While Australians enjoy their summer, temperatures in Berlin could plummet to -20 °C. Therefore, the City Mission starts to focus on the homeless even more.

Smoking is still ruling the life of many people, despite rising cigarette prices, off-putting anti-smoking campaigns and the growing awareness of the deadly health risk. Some people try to quit countless times, but the vicious seduction always win...

SBS has announced the new radio schedule: It comes into effect in April, 2013. It will bring SBS Radio services into line with the multicultural make-up of todays Australia.    

The Swiss Club Melbourne celebrates Christmas. Christian Froelicher visits the club at the start of the Christmas season and meets many elderly people, who celebrate a traditional Swiss Christmas.  

In the studio with Trudi Latour were five managers of the not-for-profit organisation Froebel - Competence for Children. Based on methods of immersion, children are given the chance to develop their individual competencies and skills while learnin...