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This International Dateline episode includes four segments: Aceh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Reverend Tim Costello Interview.

Aceh
A year after the Tsunami hit only a fraction of the people made homeless by the giant wave have resettled in permanent housing. More than 2 million Asians are still living either in temporary shelters or in tents, despite the presence of hundreds of aid agencies and billions of dollars promised in international support, including $1 billion from Australia. The worst-affected area was and still is the Indonesian province of Aceh, where they say permanent housing won't be completed until mid-2007,  if everything goes according to plan.

Sri Lanka

As the massive reconstruction effort swung into action, tensions have grown between big and small business and between the rich and the poor in the tsunami-ravaged regions. In Sri Lanka, where more than a million were displaced, the conflict between large commercial tourism development and ordinary workers is especially acute and has sparked a hot political and humanitarian debate. In the country's south, once a tourist mecca for rich Europeans founded on small operators and resorts, developers and the government have grand plans to transform the island nation's coastal strip into a 5-star luxury paradise. In response, thousands of Sri Lankans engaged in small traditional industries, like fishing, are complaining that their livelihoods are being taken away. Dateline's Nick Lazaredes reports from the southern City of Galle.

Thailand
Most of the early news of the tsunami from another of the badly hit countries, Thailand, was about the foreign victims. It was, after all, their gruesome holiday videos that were broadcast all over the world. But ultimately, the death toll was pretty much evenly split between the mainly European holiday-makers and the Thais themselves. There were also an unknown number of Burmese working illegally in Thailand at the time who never made it into the death toll. On top of this, it's also estimated that around 50,000 Thai kids were affected by the disaster.

Reverend Tim Costello Interview
George Negus speaks with Reverend Tim Costello, the chief executive of World Vision Australia. He's just returned from one of his many trips to the scene of the disaster in Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Aceh.

About International Dateline 

SBS Dateline, which began in 1984, is Australia's longest-running international current affairs program. It has a well-earned reputation for authoritative and incisive reporting. Dateline has taken the traditional way of producing TV current affairs and turned it on its head. Reporters who used to travel with a cameraperson and sound recordist now travel alone and have the responsibility of both filming and reporting their stories. The reporters became video-journalists, gaining access to people and places that the conventional camera crews cannot.