Air Date
June 20, 2012
Episodes
6 episodes
Dumb, Drunk and Racist
Season 1
Episodes
1. Episode 1
Daily Telegraph journalist Joe Hildebrand sets out on a pilgrimage to Delhi and beyond to examine anti-Australian sentiment. He'll return with 4 travellers who join him on a racist road-trip across Australia where they'll see the good, bad and ugly of this country.
2. Episode 2
Joe takes the four visitors on a road-trip to explore our most negative stereotypes, exploring modern multicultural Australia and asking if for most Australians multiculturalism simply means we've lifted the lid on a bigger 'bain-marie'.
3. Episode 3
Are we really as dumb, drunk and racist as they've been told? Joe takes his vistors to Melbourne, a city that has had its reputation trashed globally because of a spate of attacks on Indian students.
4. Episode 4
Joe takes the crew travelling into the heart of Australian to talk to Indigenous Australians, but not everything goes according to plan.
5. Episode 5
Are we "bushies"? "Bogans"? "Battlers"? Why do we celebrate our larrikins, but hide our laureates? Tonight the show goes deep into the suburbs of Brisbane to discover truth behind these stereotypes.
6. Episode 6
After three weeks in the road and having witnessed the best and worst of Aussie culture have Mahima, Amer, Gurmeet & Radhika’s opinion changed – do they still think that Australian’s are Dumb, Drunk & Racist? But first Joe takes them to a cricket game, a club crawl, a pub, an alcohol fuelled B&S Ball, and to an emergency ward - how deeply is alcohol entwined in our culture? How drunk are we?