Another record for SBS with Go Back To Where You Came From
SBS has received another record audience for 2011 following the airing of the second episode of documentary Go Back To Where You Came From.
Tuesday night’s show received the best audience for SBS for the year with 524,000 but last night’s bettered that with 569,000, according to preliminary metro ratings from OzTam.
The show follows a group of Australians who experience a refugee journey in reverse. It trended number one on Twitter globally during its first episode and was picked up by the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times.
Masterchef won the night with 1.77 million and improved on last Wednesday’s episode when it was up against the State of Origin.
Dare I say that the shows viewers are probably not the ones that NEED to watch this show?
I have to agree with Mark G.
The SBS show “Go Back To Where You Came From” would mostly be watched by those people who would already be sympathetic to refugees.
It’s a great idea for a show but unfortunately it’s just preaching to the converted.
Let me guess – in tonight’s episode the bigoted Aussie bogans have an epiphany and become instant converts to the cause. Hooray! Here’s your GetUp membership form, an I H8 Howard t-shirt and a megaphone.
Your first task is to challenge someone on the street to a discussion about border protection, then scream “racist” in their face (using your standard-issue megaphone) when they suggest that we don’t throw open the doors and provide all unskilled non-English speaking new arrivals with a passport, welfare and a free house.
Unsurprising left wing fodder from SBS.
Brad,
Go back to where you came from.
Sincerely,
Someone who actually watched the show.
Are you indigenous Brad?
I guess those boat people in the late 18th century who brought disease and wiped everyone out (and their, erm, descendents) are the BEST people to keep in this country.
Let’s see, off the top of my head (sorry to miss out on anyone) …
Portugese 16C – NO
Dutch 16C – NO
English/Irish and other UKers 18C – YES!!!!!!
French (10 days later) – NON!
Chinese for the gold rush 19C – EEK!
mediterranean people after WW2 20C – NOOOOOO!
Vietnamese + Lebanese 20C – ARGHHHH!
some refugees one week ago 21C – RUINING THIS COUNTRY!
How random….
I am indigenous Micheal and Eric Vigo, I was born here. Osbourne Park, WA, 1978. I wasn’t around in the 18th century so I can’t speak for what atrocities were committed then or any other time, sorry. Especially those committed before my great great great great great grandfather was born.
If you want to play the whole guilt-by-ancestry game I can point you towards a nice German family I know, you can go and lecture their toddler children on how they should feel remorseful for the holocaust.
Brad,
Here’s a tip for free: You are not indigenous to Australia.
indigenous
ɪnˈdɪdʒənəs → adj. 1. (especially of flora or fauna) originating naturally in a region, not introduced. 2. (also Indigenous) of or pertaining to the original inhabitants of a particular land or region. 3. [foll. by to] belonging naturally to a place.
So by definition then Michael no humans are indigenous to Australia. 40,000 years is a long time ago, but “been here a long time” does not equal “originating”.
Besides, it still doesn’t explain why I have some obligation to move to a country I have never been to just because my distant ancestors originated from there. Should we kick all the Saxons and Normans out of England as well??
Sorry to dispute your passions with logic but I’m a pragmatic person.
You aren’t indigenous Brad. Neither am I. By what you say, yes the First Australians aren’t either.
So, lets change the context. Indigenous is taken as the first of any group. Sometimes, that group killed off the last group, but they do have ‘bragging rights’ to the land, particularly if that time is many thousands of years.
The thing with the UKers is that they were 3rd or 4th in line of a quick succession of travellers/settlers/occupiers of the land, as I pointed out.
If I choose to move into your house today, and kick you out, saying “you weren’t here when this house was built” then it seems you have no right to gain entry, as … well… we all can be anywhere. It’s our freedom right!
So, by rights, anglos can’t tell middle-eastern or Africans not to come here, nor stop them, without asking the long term residents (the First Aussies) what they think. It was, by squatting rights, ‘their house’.
Would you call a lantana shrub ‘indigenous’ to Australia? I mean, that one seed 150 years ago when it first arrived (or whenever) has produced countless other shrubs. Who all have a right to be here. No botanist will tell you lantanas are native because they reproduced here.
Look, there’s a lot of anglos here like you with the same attitude, so all I can ask you is to work out if you really want to keep that attitude (which given convict culture was a prison culture, there is a strong undercurrent of distant prison attitudes still here) or not. I would say it’s harsh, unempathetic and nasty. Is that you? Why hold onto it?
I know that in the end, I don’t have the final say on who lives here, neither do you. Because we aren’t native. We are transplants without developing a distinctive human culture that isn’t of the old land.
BTW, I have heard an aboriginal person once say that the refugees shouldn’t come here. And then in the same breath said whites should f**k off too. That means you and me. Willing to go?