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  • Australian Story Stranger on the Shore (Season 17, Episode 24)
  • TV Episode | 30 min | Documentary, Biography

Australian Story

Stranger on the Shore (Season 17, Episode 24)
TV Episode | 30 min | Documentary, Biography
This week's program tells the story of a young woman unsettling her middle class Melbourne family by going out on a limb to 'adopt' a fourteen year old Afghan asylum seeker. Jaffar Ali arrived in Australia two years ago after escaping from...See moreThis week's program tells the story of a young woman unsettling her middle class Melbourne family by going out on a limb to 'adopt' a fourteen year old Afghan asylum seeker. Jaffar Ali arrived in Australia two years ago after escaping from Indonesia in a leaky boat subsequently intercepted near Christmas Island. It wasn't Jessie Taylor's first such intervention. In 2008 she dramatically 'rescued' an asylum seeking Afghan soccer team during Melbourne's Homeless World Cup. Jessie Taylor is a human rights barrister who grew up in a comfortable 'right wing' middle class Melbourne family. Her mother Jillian was opposed to asylum seekers who she saw as queue jumpers. But when Jessie spots fourteen year old Jaffar Ali, unaccompanied and behind bars in an Indonesian detention centre, she offers him her phone number in case he ever makes it to Australia. What then unfolds changes the lives and attitudes of everyone in unexpected ways. Written by Australian Story See less
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Producer
Kirstin Murray
Editor
Steven Baras-Miller
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Status
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Updated Jul 16, 2012
Release date
Jul 16, 2012 (Australia)
Awards
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9 wins & 12 nominations

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