"SIx out of ten Australians have little or no contact with Indigenous people. This group represents that six out of ten."

SBS have just dropped the trailer for its new upcoming reality show First Contact, and it looks like a doozy. As host Ray Martin points out, six out of ten non-indigenous Australians have had little to no contact with Aboriginal people, and as the contestants themselves make pretty clear, that leads to some pretty misleading ideas about Aboriginal Australia among wider society.

First Contact takes six white Australians around Aboriginal Australia for a month — everywhere from autonomous communities in the Northern Territory to the backstreets of Redfern — to give them a taste of what it’s like living as a black person in Australia today. The results look astonishing.

Like SBS’ 2011 smash hit Go Back To Where You Came From, which showed a group of Australians what life as an asylum seeker is like, this looks like must-watch TV.

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First Contact premieres at 8:30pm on Tuesday November 18.

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Feature image via SBS.