25 years on the Dateline

“I’ve made a living out of asking ‘Why?’” explains George Negus. “It’s what differentiates News from Current Affairs. News asks ‘how, when, where, what, who and when.’ But Current Affairs exists entirely, I think it should anyway, on asking the question ‘Why?’ “There’s plenty of sources of information these days that will tell you what’s happening but they won’t always tell you why.” Dateline , SBS’ flagship Current Affairs programme, has been asking “Why’ for 25 years, as the country’s l