Go Back to Where You Came From
| Go Back To Where You Came From | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ivan O'Mahoney |
| Presented by | Dr David Corlett |
| Narrated by | Colin Friels |
| Theme music composer | Hans Baker |
| Composer(s) | Gordon Wittoch |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 9 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Peter Newman, John Godfrey, Michael Cordell, Nick Murray |
| Producer(s) | Rick McPhee |
| Editor(s) | Tomas O'Brien |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Cordell Jigsaw Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | SBS One |
| Original release | 21 June 2011 – 2015 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Go Back To Where You Came From is a Logie Award-winning Australian TV documentary series, produced by Cordell Jigsaw Productions and broadcast in 2011 (Season 1), 2012 (Season 2) and 2015 (Season 3) on SBS.
The series followed two parties, each of six Australians, all members having differing opinions on Australia's asylum seeker debate, being taken on a journey in reverse to that which refugees have taken to reach Australia.
The six Australian participants were Gleny Rae, Adam Hartup, Raquel Moore, Darren Hassan, Raye Colbey, and Roderick Schneider. Deprived of their wallets, phones and passports, they board a leaky refugee boat (from which they are rescued mid-ocean), experience immigration raids in Malaysia, live in Kakuma Refugee Camp in far north-west Kenya, visit slums in Jordan before ultimately making it to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iraq, protected by UN Peacekeepers and the US military. In the final episode, the participants are debriefed for their response to the experiences.
The celebrity participants for the 2012 season was Peter Reith, Angry Anderson, Allan Asher, Catherine Deveny, Mike Smith and Imogen Bailey. The participants were placed on a rickety boat bound for Christmas Island.
Over three episodes, the six Australians also experienced mortal danger on the streets of the world’s deadliest cities – from the sweltering, war-torn capital of Somalia, Mogadishu, to the riotous streets of Kabul, freezing amidst the mountains of Afghanistan. They also travelled to the Christmas Island Detention Centre.
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