★★★★★ 0/5

Kevin Rudd to be interviewed on Mandarin News Australia

Is this a first: a former Aussie PM to give an interview to SBS -entirely in Mandarin?

10
Leave a comment

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd MP will be the first guest to be interviewed on Mandarin News Australia, SBS’s new Mandarin television news program next week.

Rudd, now Minister for Foreign Affairs, is set to discuss Australian and Chinese trade and economic relations. As many Australians know he is fluent in Mandarin, which will come in handy given the show, presented by Zhou Li, will air in Mandarin and carry English subtitles.

Aside from an appearance on Sunday Night former PM hasn’t given too many in-depth TV interviews since losing the top job to Julia Gillard. Presumably questions about being toppled are off the table.

Agreeing to an interview is a coup for the new SBS show, a locally produced in-language news service aimed at the Mandarin-speaking community.

“This new program will deliver relevant news and current affairs to one of Australia’s largest language communities,” Dirk Anthony, Director of Audio and Language Content, said.

The Rudd interview will air on the first episode, on SBS TWO Wednesday November 24th at 5.30pm. The show is repeated on SBS ONE Sundays at 6:35am.

10 Responses

  3. @chk chk – We must be the only country in the world that regards someone with second language ability as a “show off”. It’s time to recognise the world we live in and not the narrow little monolingual/monocultural desert some of us would like to pretend we live in…

Leave a Reply