Guest Curator Karla Grant selects her SBS On Demand top picks

We invited executive producer, journalist and host of ‘Living Black’ and ‘Karla Grant Presents’, Western Arrernte woman, Karla Grant to share her SBS On Demand favourites.

Karla Grant Guest Curates

(L-R) Karla Grant, Living Black, True Colours, Our Law Source: SBS

Insight

Insight is Australia's leading forum for ideas, debate and powerful first-person stories. Host Kumi Taguchi each week uses her unique skills to guide a lively debate on a single topic which in 2022 ranged from growing older, the price of pets, conspiracy theories, catfishing and Indigenous identity, which was hosted by Karla Grant. This year's season so far has seen topics like soulmates, housing stress and mid-life sexual awakenings discussed and there's more to come.

Insight airs Tuesday's at 8:30PM on SBS and SBS On Demand, stream past episodes .

Stream free On Demand

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Insight

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Dateline

Dateline is a weekly international half-hour documentary program that invites you to walk in the shoes of others in search of the inspiration and surprise in every global story. In 2022 Karla Grant reported from Japan on the controversial sole custody system that's snared 82 Australian children in parental abduction and custody cases, preventing some parents from seeing their kids. In 2023 episodes have explored Scotland's Airbnb crackdown, miracle births and there's more to come.

New episodes of Dateline air on SBS and SBS On Demand 9:30pm Tuesdays.

Stream free On Demand

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Dateline

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Current Affairs

The Cook Up with Adam Liaw

There’s nothing like cooking with friends and with 4 seasons and hundreds of episodes, there's plenty to enjoy. Adam Liaw, popular cook, author and TV presenter, is joined each night by two food-loving friends (such as Benjamin Law, Yumi Stynes and Jimmy Barnes) for a half hour of good fun and conversation as they cook up a variety of dishes centred around a nightly theme. Whether it’s an ingredient, a style of cuisine or cultural inspiration, Adam whips up his dish first before his guests follow suit with easy-to-follow recipes and tips for viewers to follow at home in time for dinner. There will be celebrities, culture and lots of laughs in a series that provides everyday inspiration for foodies and non-foodies alike.

The Cook Up with Adam Liaw airs on SBS Food weeknights at 7pm, with episodes available at  after broadcast. (.)

Stream free On Demand

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The Cook Up with Adam Liaw

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Our Law

This ground-breaking six-part documentary series follows the Indigenous officers and cadets who are trying to break the cycle of Indigenous incarceration and repair the damage between Aboriginal people and the police. Narrated by Deborah Mailman, the series follows multiple stories and subjects across its six episodes. Can cadets, Leroy, Hannah, and Shaye, overcome their own personal challenges and pass the gruelling fitness tests required to progress through to becoming official police recruits? Can frontline officers, Tyler, Tiarna and Cohen, achieve their aspirations of becoming the ultimate frontline, one that can change a police culture from within and rebuild trust between First Nations people and the blue uniform?

Our Law season 1 is now streaming .

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Incarceration Nation

Incarceration Nation lays bare the story of the continued systemic injustice and oppression of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on their own land, told by Indigenous Australians. With 474 Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia from 1991 to 2021, and no criminal convictions for the accused, Incarceration Nation puts First Nations voices front and centre, as they fight for visibility.

Incarceration Nation is now streaming .

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Incarceration Nation

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True Colours

Detective Toni Alma (Rarriwuy Hick, Wentworth) returns to her hometown to investigate a suspicious car accident. The trouble is getting people to talk to her. Toni must navigate both cultural and Western law to solve the case, alongside her police officer uncle Samuel Alma (Warren H. Williams) and ex-boyfriend Detective Nick Gawler (Luke Arnold). True Colours was filmed on country in the East Macdonnell Ranges – Yeperenye – and also stars Miranda Otto.

True Colours is now streaming at .

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True Colours

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She Who Must Be Loved

A documentary that tells the epic life story of Freda Glynn, 78-year-old Kaytetye woman, stills photographer, co-founder of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), and Imparja TV, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, radical, pacifist, grumpy old woman, who in equal measure loves the limelight and total privacy. Part-biopic, part-social history, it details the life of a woman born beneath a tree north of Alice Springs in 1939, her childhood living under the Aboriginal Protection policies and the complex impact this had upon her life.

She Who Must Be Loved is now streaming

We Don't Need a Map

Filmmaker Warwick Thornton investigates our relationship to the Southern Cross, in this fun and thought-provoking ride through Australia's cultural and political landscape.

We Don't Need a Map is now streaming

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We Don't Need a Map

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In My Own Words

Raw, heartfelt, sometimes painstaking but often funny, In My Own Words follows the journey of adult Aboriginal students and their teachers as they discover the transformative power of reading and writing for the first time in their lives.

In My Own Words is now streaming

Living Black

A brand new, 13-episode season of the ground-breaking current affairs program Living Black premieres on National Indigenous Television (NITV) on Monday 17 April at 8.30pm and will be encored on SBS on Tuesday 18 April at 10.30pm. Now in its 30th season, Living Black is Australia’s longest-running Indigenous current affairs television program.

Join Walkley award-winning presenter, producer and journalist Karla Grant as she interviews some of Australia’s most prominent First Nations peoples in the program’s 20th year. 

Watch Living Black weekly from Monday 17 April at 8.30pm on NITV and on SBS from Tuesday 18 April at 10.30pm. Living Black will also be available to stream on .

Stream free On Demand

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Living Black

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Published 13 April 2023 12:48pm
Updated 26 September 2023 10:59am
By SBS Guide
Source: SBS

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