Waking up the Nation: The Freedom Bus is an Australian documentary film shot in 2002 and internationally released in 2005, directed by Agostino Imondi.
[1] The documentary tells the story of a group of Australian human rights activists, who travel on an old bus, the Freedom Bus, to visit asylum seekers imprisoned in immigration detention centres across the country, and to educate Australian communities on their 12,000-kilometres-journey.
As the first civilians, they visited the detainees in some of the most remote parts of the country, like the detention centres in Port Hedland, and Curtin, and managed to expose some of the human rights violations committed against the asylum seekers in the camps.
An early 80-minutes version of this film, aimed at local political activist groups, was released in Australia in 2002.
Segments of the film were also used for the BBC-documentary "Australia's Pacific Solution"[2] Additional footage from the documentary was also used by Amnesty International as part of the Make Some Noise campaign.