Talk:Border Security: Australia's Front Line

message: I believe this show is racist towards other nations. It truly reflects the racist attitudes of Australians and New Zealanders towards tourists or people from other cultures. Some episodes have been racially discriminating to some cultures especially the Chinese. Shame on them! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.238.112.221 (talk • contribs) 
:As a legitimate Australian citizen I too feel that this television programme does ridicule people from variuos races. It shows footage of mainly non-European people failing to understand the 'complex' quarantine laws in Australia. This footage is then over-exaggerated.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.134.34.197 (talk • contribs) 
::Sorry but I have to disagree. I think just as many American and European passengers feature on the show as passengers from Asia. It probably is true that most of the cases of people smuggling food are people from Asia, but I expect that is because that's what happens, a lot of people from China etc like to bring in their own food, much of which is prohibited. If any people are depicted as not being able to understand the quarantine/immigration laws, it's probably because they don't! Also, please sign your comments next time.--Joe 1987 18:20, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias? 

message: Can anyone shed any light on the production choices - what has been written seems intuitive but may just be a guess by the editor.  I have looked for Customs service material on exactly how the showe is made but their website is pretty blank on it, just a small entry in one of their reports that they are cooperating with seven to do the program as a PR thing.  BTW No offence with the 'dubious' tag - it isn't meant to be harsh, it is the only one I know. --121.209.162.39 00:40, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Production 

message: :The whole 2nd paragraph under Contexts and Themes needs to be heavily edited if not removed. It contains material that is racist and defamatory. Jonesy 00:45, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the "Context and Themes" section.  What was there previously was a soapbox rant using original thought without any proof.  However, I have found some criticism of Border Security in Bob Burton's book which raises more serious issues about government accountability in immigration matters, rather than this speculative wankery about which ethnic groups are being picked on by who.  Kransky 14:57, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contexts and themes 

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:01, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Somno (talk) 04:31, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for File:BorderSecurityTitleScreen.jpg

message: This show is on it's eleventh season. So why only show the most recent?--Auric  talk 14:06, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seasons 

message: the column heading for the table says "Australian viewers (thousand)" but the column has numbers like "794,000" i.e. if the value is in thousands it indicates a viewership approx. 30  times the population of Australia. Kelly F Thomas (talk) 14:44, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Jim Michael (talk) 16:49, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  ratings figures wrong