Judgment: Cases that Changed Australia on ABC and ABC iview S1E3 – When asylum seekers’ futures are argued before the High Court, questions of borders, power and national identity are laid bare.
Australians have long wrestled with the challenges of controlling who enters the borders of a country built on immigration.
This is a story about the impulse all peoples have to control who comes to their country. About the Australian expression of that impulse – an extraordinarily harsh regime, now being copied in other countries.
It is about the power to lock people up – who holds that power in our country, and what are its limits, and who really gets to decide.
Judgment: Cases that Changed Australia on ABC and ABC iview – Tuesday 28 April at 8.30pm
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Judgment: Cases that Changed Australia on ABC and ABC iview S1E3
