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Background

The SBS Filipino info seeker

There are 79,000 Tagalog-language and 55,000 Filipino-Language speakers in Australia, representing 2.3% of all Australian migrant’s population. Filipino and Taglog speakers are concentrated in large cities, Blacktown, Campbelltown in New South Wales and Sunshine West in Melbourne.

  • Recognises SBS as the community’s most popular program
  • Connect with the Philippines and local community news and information

More than

22,000

Filipino language speakers have arrived in the last 8 years

Over

78%

of Filipino speakers finished their Year 12 studies

The community is known to be:

  • Hardworking
  • Integrates with the society
  • Likes to work in service-oriented job
  • Loving
  • Religious
  • Family oriented
  • Dreams of having a home