The SBS documentary "Go Back To Where You Come From" has a very interesting premise" take six ordinary Australians and place them into the same situation that refugees face when they come into this country and the living conditions of the countries they are escaping from. The entertainment value ratchets up when the six participants are also racist and have their own in-built preconceptions about the refugees and asylum seekers. And for 25 days these same people would have to live in the same situation of the people they've looked down on.

The six participants are a diverse group and that is good for the show. Viewers could have easily lumped them into those typical racist stereotype but they manage to emerge as personalities of their own. The six Australians range in age from Raye a 63 year old farmer you lives next door to a detention center and doesn't like it one bit to Raquel a 21 year old self-confessed racist. The group is split into two teams and sent to the homes of the refugees in Australia. Eventually they go to the refugees' home countries in Iraq and Africa and see for themselves why the immigrants were so eager to leave their homes for the chance to live in Australia.

To be fair to the producers this documentary could have easily devolved into one with a liberal bias forcing the conservatives to realize how wrong their racism is. Fortunately this documentary manages to rise above the deep dividing lines that this debate has made on this nation. There are no easy answers to be had with the illegal refugee debate. The show works best when it just lets the participants and the refugees interact. Sure not everybody would be swayed to the other side of the debate but at least the group was genuinely listening to the immigrants' stories. Except for Raquel who spent majority of the series moaning her lack of a phone and was generally too self-involved to actually look at herself.

Overall the series set out with an important message to be said that asylum seekers aren't the foreign horde that would take over the country some media represent them to be. It's entertaining to see these self-confessed racist face to face with the people they fear. It might not be the deepest and most introspective show about asylum seekers out there but with the high ratings the show garnered it might throw more light into this often fractious illegal immigrant debate.