Striking It Lucky: Arab Representation, Whiteness and Here Come the Habibs

In this fish-out-of-water comedy by the Nine Network, a Lebanese-Australian family wins the lottery and moves into one of the country's most affluent – and whitest – suburbs. While its humour does somewhat rely on stereotype, the series also interrogates class structures and Anglo hegemony; is this our cue, asks Mehal Krayem, to announce, 'Here comes a more diverse Australia on screen'?

Additional keywords: diversity, multiculturalism, politics, race, representation, monoculture, people of colour, racism, Darren Gilshenan, Michael Denkha, Camilla Ah Kin, habitus, gender.