Go Back to Where You Came From Live is ambitious TV. But does it work?

By putting stunned, mostly white, mostly celebrity Australians in conflict zones, SBS doesn’t do justice to the complexity of refugee stories

The first series of Go Back to Where You Came from was truly groundbreaking and audacious television.

In 2011, six ordinary Australians took a refugee journey backwards from Australia. They travelled on a leaky boat; they experienced immigration raids; they lived in a refugee camp. There had been nothing on television like it, and it was immensely instructive in highlighting the perilous refugee experience.

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