20-11-2014 If you did not watch it live, the TV-series (reality tv show) ‘First Contact’ is still available online. A group of 6 Australians, of whom one left halfway being bored, who never had any real contact with Aboriginal Australians were taken to Aboriginal people all over Australia during a journey of 28 days. The show was meant to challenge preconceived ideas (prejudice) about Indigenous people. Some participants changed their views slightly, most stuck to their either positive or negative ideas about Aboriginal Australians. Watch the series online on SBS.
Wake Up Time Comment: the show did not rise above the level of Big Brother. Eating grubs, killing a sea turtle or being in a prison has nothing to do with the essentials of the problems of Indigenous people in Australia. At best it has to do with white people (red neck) prejudice, at worst it is stupid reality tv. The real issue is why Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians cannot solve the divide. Wake Up Time suggests that the main reasons are legal distinctions between the groups, an overkill of available money resources and narrow mindedness, too much political correctness and lack of Aboriginal responsibility to face and address their own problems. Ray Martin has missed a great opportunity given to him.