First Contact (Australian TV series)

[4] In making their "first contact" with Indigenous Australia, the selected six participants are taken to Aboriginal communities both in the city and the country, and are even processed into a regional prison at Roebourne in Western Australia, where social problems are particularly acute, resulting in incarceration of large numbers of Indigenous Australians, often for quite minor offences.

The relationships between Indigenous people and local police in Roebourne are notoriously poor.

[5][6][7] (As themselves) Series 1 participants were:[8] Indigenous contributors on series 2 included:[8] Participants in the second series were:[9] First Contact was filmed and set in New South Wales,[citation needed] home to the largest Indigenous Australian population of any state/territory, the Northern Territory, where Indigenous Australians make up a higher percentage of the population than in any other state or territory and Western Australia.

Rachel Perkins was executive producer on the first series, while Ronan Sharkey and Dora Weekley directed.

[8] Jacob Hickey was executive producer on the second series, while David Grusovin and Bruce Permezel directed.