Linda Briskman is head of the Centre for Human Rights at Curtin University and convener of a citizen's inquiry into Australia’s immigration detention.
David Corlett is the author of “Following Them Home: The Fate of the Returned Asylum Seekers” – the story of his travel to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Thailand to speak with asylum seekers who Australia sent away.

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5 Jan 2007 photos Karen Trist

Is there an inappropriate conflation of issues of asylum seeking and terrorism? Has the Australian Government over-reacted by building the asylum seeker issue into a defining feature of Australia as a nation? Linda & David explore how lived multicultural experience differs from prevailing mono-cultural power structures in Australia, and the role that fear is playing in the political landscape. How do we unravel ‘fear of the other’?