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'It's a second migration for the Habib family, first it was Lebanon to Australia, now Lakemba to Vaucluse. But not everyone is happy to see them, and soon the Habibs find themselves in conflict with their new next door neighbours. The O'Neills are Vaucluse royalty - old money and proud of it. They're extremely uncomfortable with goats and chickens, shisha pipes and people of Mediterranean appearance, but the Habibs can't understand what all the fuss is about. One family want to stay, the other family want them gone. Here Come The Habibs brings a fresh comic perspective to multicultural Australia.'
Source: Screen Australia.
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Whatever Happened to Multiculturalism? Here Come the Habibs!, Race, Identity and Representation
2017
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— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 31 no. 2 2017; (p. 242-256) 'In February 2016 Channel Nine broadcast six episodes of Here Come the Habibs!. The show was a comedy about a Lebanese-Australian family who win 22 million dollars in the lottery and move from working-class Lakemba to upper-class Vaucluse where they buy a house next to the very white O’Neills. The show invokes key tropes of official multiculturalism most importantly race and identity. At the same time, official multiculturalism has been in decline in Australia since the advent of John Howard’s conservative prime ministership in 1996. Official multiculturalism focused on ethnic groups and their cultures. It has been supplanted by the ideas of neoliberalism which is concerned above all with individuals and the market. In this article I argue that Here Come the Habibs! is, in the end, nostalgic for a multiculturalism which is no longer privileged in Australia. The dynamics of the tension between the Habibs and O’Neills has been displaced, as is signalled in the final episode of the show, by the entry into Australia of a mobile, cosmopolitan elite whose worth is measured not in their culture but in what they can economically contribute to the country.' -
Ethnic Diversity on Australian TV : Are We Finally Ready for Colour on Our Screens?
2016
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— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 14 May 2016; 'If you were judging the state of Australian television by last Sunday's Logies, you might reasonably conclude that when it comes to on screen diversity – of the ethnic variety, at least – we're not doing too badly. ...' -
Once We Have Lost Our Ability to Laugh at Ourselves and With Each Other, What Are We As a Nation?
2016
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 February 2016; (p. 18) -
At Home With the Laws But Not the Habibs
2016
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 February 2016; (p. 24) -
Habibs Win Over TV Watchers
2016
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— Appears in: The Australian , 11 February 2016; (p. 3)
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Meet the New Neighbours
2016
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— Appears in: The West Australian , 4 February 2016; (p. 5)
— Review of Here Come the Habibs! 2016 series - publisher film/TV -
Ethnic Sitcom a Leap of Faith
2016
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— Appears in: The Age , 4 February 2016; (p. 7) The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 February 2016; (p. 5)
— Review of Here Come the Habibs! 2016 series - publisher film/TV -
Jumping into the Mainstream
2016
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— Appears in: The Sunday Times [Perth] , 7 February 2016; (p. 13)
— Review of Here Come the Habibs! 2016 series - publisher film/TV -
Here Comes Our Own Ho-hum Sitcom
2016
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9 February 2016; (p. 36) The Age , 9 February 2016; (p. 33)
— Review of Here Come the Habibs! 2016 series - publisher film/TV -
Here Come the Habibs! First Episode Verdict
2015
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— Appears in: Daily Review , 10 February 2015;
— Review of Here Come the Habibs! 2016 series - publisher film/TV -
Road Warriors Eye Rear-view Mirror
2016
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 7 February 2016; (p. 2) -
Wogs Laughing - All the Way to the Bank
2016
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— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 31 January 2016; (p. 28) -
Habibs Win Over TV Watchers
2016
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— Appears in: The Australian , 11 February 2016; (p. 3) -
At Home With the Laws But Not the Habibs
2016
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 February 2016; (p. 24) -
Once We Have Lost Our Ability to Laugh at Ourselves and With Each Other, What Are We As a Nation?
2016
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 February 2016; (p. 18)
Awards
- 2018 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Comedy Program
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