Dumb, Drunk and Racist (2012)
Season 1
Australians get a bad rap overseas, and our stocks seem especially low in India. In fact, a sizeable chunk of India’s 1.2 billion people think Aussies are dumb, drunk and racist. But doesn’t every country have its negative stereotypes? In this six-part factual series, journalist Joe Hildebrand takes four Indians on a road trip around Australia to examine our worst stereotypes – are we really beer-swilling, racist bogans, or are we simply misunderstood?
Released June 20, 2012
Episode 30 min
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S1E1 - 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.
June 20, 2012, midnight
S1E2 - 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'.
June 27, 2012, midnight
S1E3 - 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.
July 4, 2012, midnight
S1E4 - Episode 4
Joe takes the crew travelling into the heart of Australian to talk to Indigenous Australians, but not everything goes according to plan.
July 11, 2012, midnight
S1E5 - 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.
July 18, 2012, midnight
S1E6 - 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?
July 25, 2012, midnight
Network: ABC2
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 180 min.
Released: June 20, 2012
Last Air Date: July 25, 2012, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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