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Spitting Venom Radio (SVR) is a weekly audio podcast based out of Baltimore. It is designed as a sit down talk radio show that explores a diverse range of topics, including society, politics, religion, sports and more. With a range of different co-hosts there is never a lack of variety and opinions.
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The 2024 UEFA Men's European Football Championship starts this evening in Munich - with the match between Germany and Scotland. This highly anticipated competition will take place from June 14 to July 14. Germany held a European championship back in 1988 - back then as a Federal Republic - now for the first time as a united country. The games are p…
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The results of the European elections just under a week ago stirred up, frightened and unsettled politicians and parties in Germany and France. Have political sentiments calmed down by now? Dieter Herrmann, editor-in-chief of WEEK IN AUSTRALIA, has his doubts. - Das Ergebnis der Europawahl vor einer knappen Woche hat Politiker und Parteien in Deuts…
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In Newcastle, a woman drove around with a poisonous snake in her car for weeks. The reptile has made itself so comfortable in the vehicle that four snake catchers were unable to remove it. The owner of the car only boarded her car with protective equipment. One of the messages the label deserves: “Only in Australia.” - In Newcastle ist eine Frau üb…
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The German marine biologist Nicolas Lubitz has witnessed a rather unusual event in Australia. He watched a tiger shark strangle an ant hedgehog (Echidna) again. - Der deutsche Meeresbiologe Nicolas Lubitz ist in Australien Zeuge eines eher ungewöhnlichen Ereignisses geworden. Er beobachtete einen Tigerhai dabei, wie dieser einen Ameisenigel (Echidn…
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Am Freitagabend beginnt in München die UEFA Fußball-Europameisterschaft der Männer mit der Begegnung Deutschland gegen Schottland. Dieser, mit viel Spannung erwartete Wettbewerb, findet vom 14. Juni bis zum 14 Juli statt. Deutschland trug schon 1988 eine Europameisterschaft aus - damals noch als Bundesrepublik - jetzt erstmalig als ein geeintes Lan…
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UN-Generalsekretär Guterres hofft UN-Resolution führt zu Waffenstillstand in Gaza / Bundes-Verteidigungsminister Pistorius will seine Pläne für einen „neuen Wehrdienst“ vorstellen / Opposition will im Falle eines Wahlsieges Emissionsreduktionsziel Australiens für 2030 streichen / Australisches Steueramt warnt vor Zunahme von steuerbezogenen Betrüge…
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Kanzler Scholz fordert Ampel-Parteien auf gemeinsam Vertrauen der Wähler zurückzugewinnen / UN Sicherheitsrat stimmt Waffenstillstandsvorschlag für Gaza zu / Deutsche Bahn verschiebt Eröffnung von Stuttgart 21 um ein weiteres Jahr auf Dezember 2026 / Airbus der österreichischen Fluggesellschaft Austrian Airlines durch extremen Hagel schwer beschädi…
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Sonja Markovic and Armin Towfigh Nia only wanted to visit good friends in Australia in the early 2000s. But because they liked it so much, they swapped their home in Frankfurt for Australia in 2011 after a few years of preparation. Sonja and Armin are the founders of Evitat, a Melbourne-based start-up that is committed to helping builders and peopl…
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Today, the Australian animal world is best known for its marsupials. The cloacal animals - the platypus and the echidna - are often overshadowed. However, fossil finds now show that these animals probably played a much more prominent role 100 million years ago and were better equipped to do so. - Die australische Tierwelt ist heute vor allem für ih…
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Taiwan is currently a beleaguered island nation off the Chinese coast. Despite the tensions, life in Taiwan seems to be going its usual course. There are also art exhibitions. Brisbane-based German artist Andrea Moser was now invited to exhibit her work in Taiwan. She talks to Katharina Lösche about how this came about and how she experienced the t…
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An international jurisdiction that most people probably didn't even know existed has hit the headlines in connection with the Gaza war. The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court are both based in The Hague, the Netherlands. Law Professor Marcus Wagner from Wollongong University explains the role of these two courts: - …
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D-Day on June 6, 1944 on the beaches of Normandy was preceded by a deception planned down to the last detail, in which an Australian actor played the role of a lifetime. - Dem D-Day am 6. Juni 1944 an den Stränden der Normandie ging ein bis ins letzte Detail geplantes Täuschungsmanöver voraus, in dem ein australischer Schauspieler die Rolle seines …
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The Sydney Film Festival has been running since yesterday and an important film from Germany is also taking part. 'Dying' is by Hamburg-born director Matthias Glasner. The film will be shown on Sunday, June 9. 'Dying' comes to Sydney with advance laurels. At the Berlinale, the film was awarded the Golden Lola as the best German production. - Das Sy…
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Hochwasserlage in Bayern bleibt angespannt / Vorsitzender der Greens erwägt rechtliche Schritte gegen Australiens Generalstaatsanwalt / Albanese-Regierung fordert Opposition auf vorgeschlagenen Standorte für Kernreaktoren bekannt zu geben / Treasurer Chalmers hofft Haushaltsmaßnahmen der Regierung entlasten Haushalte / Rolle Australiens bei D-Day-L…
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US-Repräsentantenhaus verabschiedet Gesetz das Sanktionen gegen den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof verhängt / Bericht der Clean Energy Council Australia fordert großangelegte Solarprojekte statt Debatten über Kernkraft / Etwa 5 Prozent der NDIS-Ausgaben sollen nicht für echte Bedürfnisse ausgegeben worden sein / Gouverneurin der RBA sieht keine K…
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Die Hochwasserlage in Bayern bleibt angespannt. / Förderbank KfW verkauft 110 Millionen Aktien der Deutschen Telekom / Australische Streitkräfte werden bald Nicht-Staatsbürger rekrutieren / Regierung und der Apothekerverband Australiens unterzeichnen Vereinbarung / USA wollen Verabschiedung von Resolution in UN Sicherheitsrat / Jury für Hunter Bide…
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Australia has always been a dream country for Nicole Bergmann. She followed her dream and moved to Melbourne with her husband in the late 1990s. But unfortunately, the reality was different to what she had imagined. That's why she returned to Germany after 17 years - with her cat but without her husband. But even in Germany, not everything is as sh…
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The pandemic and the trend towards online shopping have changed inner cities in Germany. In Nuremberg's pedestrian zone, for example, there are rows of empty shops on a central street. A good 20 kilometers away - in the student town of Erlangen - there an Australian woman is trying her luck. She runs a small fashion and jewelry boutique. In an inte…
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Keine Entwarnung bei Hochwasserlage in Süddeutschland / Mindestlohn steigt ab 1. Juli um 3,75 Prozent / Australische Regierung begrüßt Plan zur Beendigung des Gaza-Krieges / China droht Taiwan und unterstützenden Ländern / Geschäftsfrau wird neue Präsidentin Islands / Claudia Sheinbaum gewinnt gewalttätigste Wahlen in Mexiko / Borussia Dortmund ver…
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The soccer season in Europe is about to reach its peak. Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund will meet in the Champions League final on Saturday. Wembley Stadium in London is the very big stage for soccer. Millions of fans around the world will be watching this match. Football expert Edmund Kainer knows Wembley from several visits. He is eagerly await…
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Donald Trump wurde von einer Jury als erster Ex-Präsident der USA in einem Strafprozess in allen 34 Anklagepunkten für schuldig befunden. Ein bisher einmaliger Vorgang in der bewegten politischen Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten. Trump selbst bezeichnet das Urteil schlicht als 'Schande'. Doch Dieter Herrmann, Chefredakteur der Zeitung DIE WOCHE I…
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Australia's Minister of Immigration Andrew Giles is fighting for his political survival as a provision issued by him protects felons from expulsion. The media and the public are outraged and the opposition is calling for his head. - Australiens Einwanderungsminister Andrew Giles kämpft um sein politisches Überleben, da eine von ihm erlassenen Besti…
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An Australian beer festival starts today in Sydney and then it's off to Brisbane and Melbourne. At the very end, the highlight is a world record attempt — a World Record Beer Tasting Session. Guest at the beer festival this year is a star among beer brewers. His name is Marcus Englet from the Weihenstephan brewery — a company that prides itself on …
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People in Solomon Islands still talk about an island called Teonimenu. But where is the island today? Because where Teonimenu is said to have once been, there is now only sea. A researcher in Australia believes that the truth lies in indigenous stories and warns that the island's fate could repeat itself even today. - Die Menschen auf den Salomonen…
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Scholz und Macron heben beim deutsch-französischen Ministerrat enge Zusammenarbeit hervor / Bericht zeigt EU investiert zu wenig in Künstliche Intelligenz / Laut Amnesty Internation Anstieg bei in 2023 / Parlament lehnt Antrag der Greens ab, Palästina als Staat anzuerkennen / Spanien, Irland und Norwegen erkennen offiziell einen palästinensischen S…
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The Frontier Wars is a term often used to describe the more than 100 years of violent conflicts between colonial settlers and the Indigenous peoples that occurred during the British settlement of Australia. Even though Australia honours its involvement in wars fought overseas, it is yet to acknowledge the struggle that made it the country it is tod…
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Außenministerin Penny Wong erklärt tödlichen Luftangriff Israels auf Rafah für entsetzlich und inakzeptabel / Norwegen erkennt seit heute Palästina offiziell als Staat an / Teilnehmer des pro-palästinensischen Camps an der Australian National University in Canberra verlassen Gelände / Frankreichs Präsident Macron mit dem westfälischen Friedenspreis…
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A study describes how a wild orangutang in Inodesia heals a facial wound with the help of a plant. This was observed by a team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute. The first author of the study is Dr Isabell Laumer. She is a cognitive biologist and primatologist. For more than 10 years, she has been intensively involved with great apes and…
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When Australian doctor Richard Scolyer was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour around a year ago, his chances of survival were slim. But then the 57-year-old became "patient zero" in an immunotherapy approach that was developed on the basis of his own melanoma research. - Als der australische Arzt Richard Scolyer vor etwa einem Jahr mit einem b…
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Macron auf erstem Staatsbesuch in Deutschland / Fast 700 Tote durch Erdrutsch in Papua-Neuguinea / Mehrere Tote durch israelischen Raketenagriff auf Rafah / Reconciliation Week beginnt mit Feiertag im ACT / Wirbelsturm bedroht Bangladesch / Eishockey WM: Schweiz verliert Finale gegen Tschechien / Bayer Leverkusen gewinnt DFB-Pokal…
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The Australian government is planning an economic future for the country without CO2. This target should thus be achieved by 2050. To get there, the government is primarily relying on renewable energy sources - primarily solar and wind - which are intended to replace the current coal-fired power plants. The opposition sees things differently and is…
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Netanjahu verurteilt Entscheidung von Irland, Norwegen und Spanien einen palästinensischen Staat anerkennen zu wollen / Außenministerin Wong erklärt Australien unterstütze weiterhin eine Zwei-Staaten-Lösung im Nahen Osten / Australiens erste nationale Batteriestrategie veröffentlicht / Australien verhandelt weiterhin mit Israel über den Zugang zu B…
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It's Germany's birthday! The Federal Republic was founded 75 years ago — and the GDR. This marked the beginning of a very unique era of division and unity, of freedom and dictatorship, of “economic miracles” and bankruptcies, of social change and stagnation, of old statesmen and youthful protest, of turning times and times of change. It all began -…
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Verzögerungen am ersten Prozesstag gegen Reichsbürger-Gruppe / Baerbock kritisiert jüngste Atomwaffenübung Russlands heftig / Britischer Mann stirbt nach schweren Turbulenzen eines Singapore Airlines Fluges / Australien und Bangladesch wollen Zusammenarbeit ausweiten / NT verabschiedet neue Gesetze zur einfacheren Verhängung von Notfall-Ausgangsspe…
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Regierung fliegt australische Bürger aus Neukaledonien / US-Präsident Joe Biden verteidigt Israel nach Antrag des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs auf Haftbefehle gegen Netanjahu / Familie und Unterstützer von Julian Assange feiern Entscheidung des High Court in London / Telstra kündigt Abbau von 2.800 Arbeitsplätze an / Warnung im „Regierungsauss…
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The famous German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven developed a hearing disorder at an early age, which ultimately led to deafness. For a long time, people have been puzzling over what was behind this ailment. An Australian has now had locks of the composer's hair tested. - Der berühmte deutsche Komponist und Pianist Ludwig van Beethoven en…
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The German Film Festival is once again presenting a series of selected films this year. We have already watched some of them for you and discussed them with film scholar and documentary filmmaker Dr Claudia Sandberg. Today: Dark Satellites. - Das German Film Festival wartet dieses Jahr wieder mit einer Reihe ausgewählter Filme auf. Wir haben einige…
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17 May was International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, called IDAHOBIT. Professor Birgit Lang explains why this day is necessary and how we can show our solidarity with the queer community. She is Professor of German and a historian of gender and sexuality, sex research and psychoanalysis at Melbourne University. - Am 17. Mai wa…
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The German Film Festival is once again presenting a series of selected films this year. We have already watched some of them for you and discussed them with film scholar and documentary filmmaker Dr Claudia Sandberg. Today: One for the Road. - Das German Film Festival wartet dieses Jahr wieder mit einer Reihe ausgewählter Filme auf. Wir haben einig…
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Battery technology is being hailed as the saviour of the energy transition. But how green is it really? Experts assume that batteries in electric cars, for example, will have to be replaced after five to ten years. So what happens to the vast quantities of batteries that will no longer be functional in just a few years? And are we not creating a ne…
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Everything is changing — even the taste of beer among Germans. Young beer drinkers want a bit of variety. We learn which direction the taste trend is heading from a brewer in Upper Franconia, with whom our correspondent Daniel Salg talks. - Alles ändert sich – sogar auch der Biergeschmack der Deutschen. Junge Biertrinker wollen etwas Abwechslung. I…
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An era of civil aviation that was unique in the world ended 50 years ago. Although jet airplanes were already connecting the continents back then, four-engine flying boats still carried passengers and goods between Sydney and Lord Howe Island. In May 1974, it came to an end: the flying boat connection was discontinued without much ceremony. Klaus M…
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The fate of wild horses in the Australian Alps is currently getting a lot of attention again. The Brumbies, as they are known, are accused of destroying the fragile nature of the high altitudes because of their large numbers. For this reason, shooting down horses is reducing the number of horses, especially in Kosciusko National Park. Natalie Eggen…
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The Slovakian PM Robert Fico has apparently regained consciousness following the assassination attempt on him. The alleged perpetrator was overwhelmed. It is said to be a 71-year-old writer. Dieter Herrmann, editor-in-chief of WEEK IN AUSTRALIA, explains the background to the crime. - Der slowakische Regierungschef Fico ist nach dem Attentat auf ih…
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For the International Day Against Homophobia, former East German footballer Marcus Urban is encouraging lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex athletes to openly acknowledge their sexuality through the "Sports Free" campaign. In an interview with SBS reporter Benjamin Kanthak, Urban shares his special connection with Australia and explai…
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The German Film Festival is once again presenting a series of selected films this year. We have already watched some of them for you and discussed them with film scholar and documentary filmmaker Dr Claudia Sandberg. Today: Lubo - Das German Film Festival wartet dieses Jahr wieder mit einer Reihe ausgewählter Filme auf. Wir haben einige davon für S…
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The German Film Festival is once again presenting a series of selected films this year. We have already watched some of them for you and discussed them with film scholar and documentary filmmaker Dr Claudia Sandberg. Today: From Hilde with Love. - Das German Film Festival wartet dieses Jahr wieder mit einer Reihe ausgewählter Filme auf. Wir haben e…
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Schatzmeister Jim Chalmers hat vor der offiziellen Vorstellung seines dritten Bundeshaushalts mit SBS News gesprochen. Ihm zufolge ist Ausgewogenheit der Schlüssel zum diesjährigen Budget. Steuererleichterungen, ein Haushaltsüberschuss und Maßnahmen zur Minderung der Inflation sollen eingeplant sein. - Schatzmeister Jim Chalmers hat vor der offizie…
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