Episode 1 | Small Town, Big Riot

Duration: 57'49''

Synopsis

Mobeen Azhar investigates how a protest outside an asylum seeker hotel turned into a riot, uncovering a blueprint for a national wave of violence that eight months later would affect us all.

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