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The SBS Samoan info seeker

There are 36,571 speakers in Australia, representing 0.2% of the entire population. Samoan speakers are concentrated in large cities, such as Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

  • Engages with SBS to connect with homeland and local community news and information
  • Tunes in for SBS for news, current affairs, entertainment in Samoan

More than

15,000

Samoan speakers arrived in the last 10 years from Samoa and New Zealand

Over

50%

speak English well

The community is known to be:

  • Aspirational
  • Engaged and belonging to discernible local church communities
  • Family oriented