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12. Australia’s dark refugee history and the state of modern media

June 13, 2021 • Andrew • Season 1

Ghassan Nakhoul is an SBS journalist and author who won the Walkley Award for his documentary 'The Five Mysteries of SIEV-X'. His famous interview with a prominent people smuggler arguably led to some of Australia's most hard lined legislation on refugees 'The Pacific Solution'. We discuss this chapter in Australian political history as well as the state of the modern media.