Safe Harbour (ATOM Study Guide)

Safe Harbour (2018) is a four-part drama about a group of friends whose sailing holiday of a lifetime to Indonesia alters their lives forever after they cross paths with a fishing boat overloaded with asylum seekers en-route to Australia. The group come to the aid of the broken-down boat, leading to a tragic series of events that return to haunt them five years later.

Curriculum Links:
This study guide to accompany Safe Harbour has been written for secondary students in Years 10–12. It provides information and suggestion for learning activities in Civics and Citizenship, English, Geography, History, Media and curriculum projects discussing the issue of asylum seekers and refugees. Safe Harbour can also be used as a resource to address the Australian Curriculum general capabilities Ethical Understanding and Intercultural Understanding and the cross curriculum priority Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia.