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Dumb, Drunk & Racist Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
While in India Joe meets the four locals who will join him on a road trip across Australia. As a newsreader and journalist for a Hindi network, Gurmeet Chaudhary was shocked by the negative stories appearing regularly in the Indian media. Call centre worker Mahima Bhardwaj takes Joe through the unpleasant encounters she's had with Aussies over the phone. Amer Singh is a third year law student in Chandigargh who decided it was safer to stay in India to study. Radhika Budhwar advises Indian students where they should study overseas; she hasn't recommended Australia for the last five years. All agree to risk life and limb to visit our reviled and dangerous country. Joe kicks off the Australian tour by mixing the glitz and glamour of Sydney Harbour with Australia's most renowned beach, Bondi. The travellers quickly become seduced by the beauty Down Under. But before his guests relax too much, Joe stops them in their tracks with a provocative mural plastered on an inner city wall. The mural - which reads, 'Say No to Burqas' - sparks off the first heated debate - and the Indians aren't the only ones upset by the message the mural carries.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
Mahima, Radhika, Gurmeet and Amer are in the second week of their 'dumb, drunk and racist' road trip, and begin this episode in Sydney's Lakemba - a suburb with a predominantly Muslim population. Radhika is clearly surprised by the lack of white people in Lakemba: "This is not really Australia - these people have built their own country in another country." Later, Radhika and Mahima meet Nasro, a Somalian refugee, who tells them that although she has experienced kindness, she has little doubt that most Australians are racist. Venturing deeper into the heart of this issue, Joe takes the travellers to Cronulla beach and tells them the story of the infamous 2005 riots. The footage of that awful day shocks everyone and brings law student Amer to tears. The crew then travel back into the heart of Sydney's Western suburbs and play a game of soccer with the all-women, multi-ethnic Lakembaroos. Finally Joe takes them to Villawood Immigration Detention Centre. There they meet members of the Australian Protectionist Party, a group that believes multiculturalism is a failure and Muslim immigration should be stopped altogether. As they are talking, several pro-refugee advocates arrive and tempers flare as the Indians find themselves in the middle of a heated argument about multiculturalism.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
Although many Australians think of Melbourne as our most liveable city, for Indians it's infamous for attacks on Indian students, in fact education advisor, Radhika advises students not to risk studying in Australia at all. In tonight's episode Joe and the Indians investigate the nature of these attacks - were they really racist or just a case of Indian students being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Gautam Gupta an Indian student leader at the time of the attacks and now a practicing surgeon, tells Gurmeet and Radhika that he has no doubt that the attacks were racist. Later, in one of Melbourne's famous laneways, Joe confirms that many Victorians are scared of Melbourne after dark and shows the Indian's CCTV footage of a brutal attack on Indian student, Sourabh Sharma, then he reveals to a visibly shocked Mahima and Gurmeet, that they are going to meet Sourabh and hear first hand about the attack. Meanwhile Radhika and Amer patrol the mean streets of Melbourne with the Victorian Police, Radhika is appalled by the level of drunkenness but Amer seems less concerned. A few weeks back in India, he told the crew that he wanted to walk the streets of Melbourne at 2 or 3 am, to see for himself if Australia is a racist country, Joe grants Amer's wish and Gurmeet accompanies him. The walk is uneventful until he and Gurmeet return to Swanston street where they are abused and threatened.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
This episode looks at how Australia treats its indigenous population and the often volatile relationship between black and white. The Indians start at the place where indigenous people first came into contact with white people, Sydney's Botany Bay. It's a good step-off point - leaving the Indians wondering what state the relationship is in after 200 years of white settlement. From there, the road-trip heads to Moree in Northern NSW, infamous as one of Australia's last bastions of legislated racism. The group visits Moree Baths, where Charles Perkins campaigned for indigenous people to be allowed to swim in 1965. At the time the issue divided the town's black and white populations. Does that divide still exist? Joe takes the question to local indigenous elders and to Moree's Mayor, Katrina Humphries - both with different views. From Moree to Australia's red centre, Alice Springs. They visit the Todd River where Joe explains the damage indigenous alcohol abuse has caused here. Suddenly the group are set upon by two women upset by their presence - the situation becomes tense as the women begin throwing stones. It's a scary and shocking experience and one that has the team running for cover.
Episode 5
Episode #1.5
Are we Bushies? Bogans? Battlers? Why do we celebrate our Larrikens but hide our Laureates? Tonight DDR goes deep into the suburbs of Brisbane to discover truth behind these stereotypes.
Episode 6
Episode #1.6
Joe takes the four 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?
