As more and more refugees arrive in Australian waters by boat, Rear Vision takes a look at the history of Australia's policies on asylum seekers, from the first boatload of Vietnamese back in 1976 through to today.

First broadcast 7/4/2010

Guests

Mary Crock
Professor of Public Law in the Department of law at the University of Sydney.

Adrienne Millbank
Former senior researcher with the Parliamentary Library in Canberra and former adjunct researcher with the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University.

Don McMaster
Visiting Research Fellow in the Politics Department at the University of Adelaide.

Malcolm Fraser
Prime Minster Australia between 1975 and 1983