Go Back To Where You Came From
Go Back To Where You Came From – revisited
Special television event: Tuesday 30 July, 7.30pm on SBS ONE
With the national debate on asylum seekers and refugee policy at the forefront of the news following Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s plan to send asylum seekers who arrive by boat without a visa to Papua New Guinea, season two of SBS’s ground-breaking series Go Back To Where You Came From will be replayed in back-to-back episodes on Tuesday 30 July from 7.30pm.
Is your school studing Go Back? I’d be delighted to come out to speak to you all and answer questions.
Watch the show online ep1 ep2 ep3
And we won a Logie.
Here is my debrief after the last show with Anton Enus and the Insight Special.
And great review here.
My column for ABC The Drum. The Howard government stopped the boats? Contestable. That the policy caused loss of life? Undeniable.
Peter Reith was found by a 2002 Senate Inquiry to have been told 14 separate times kids were not thrown overboard but persisted with the lie. He was found to have deliberately misled the public & been part of ‘an extraordinary story of deceit’. To this day he has not corrected the public record or apologised.
Reith told SBS he was pulling out of all GBTWYCF publicity including Insight because of this.
“Six prominent Australians risk their lives to experience the reality of refugee life, as they embark on an extraordinary and confronting three week journey.” Afghanistan with Angry Anderson and Peter Reith. You heard me. More here and watch a sneak peak!
Must read and watch! Go Back To Where You Came From series director Lincoln Howes on Peter Reith and I behaving like a ‘long-married couple’
“Peter Reith is just a right-wing misogynist. That’s not an insult, it’s just a description.”
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Sign the petition Calling the Australian Government to reopen cases of wrongly deported Afghan asylum seekers. As promised. For Rizae.
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