It's been almost a year since SBS aired series two of its ground-breaking Go Back To Where You Came From program.
The desperate stories and confronting images triggered fierce debate, both here and abroad.
SBS has caught up with some of the participants -- refugees and well-known Australians -- to see what they think about the asylum-seeker issue now.
Gary Cox has the story.
The tiny coffin of an asylum-seeker, just ten weeks old, is another headline, another powerful reminder of the dangerous people-smuggling trade.
But this infant isn't alone.
"I'm so sad, my husband, our friends, they know and it's so sad. Just a baby, just four or three months old. No more. Really a small baby, very cute, ah.... die."
Sahra Khan and her husband Ali are mourning the death of their friend, Misraeli, and her baby, who died after boarding a leaky boat from Indonesia.
The Khans know it could have been them.
When Go Back to Where You Came From found the Khans in Indonesia, they were considering coming by boat.
Ali waited five years and tried to come illegally by boat twice.
He knows it's not worth it.
"I think for five years I'm coming, I know more than two thousand people have died, more than two thousand."
Ali Khan says the death toll is teaching people there's no point paying a people-smuggler.
Former Defence Minister in the Howard government Peter Reith says the spirit of Labor's new policy could stop the boats, but he says the implementation is a fiasco.
"You know Labor's approach on this all along has been taking a position and then backing off on it. So we will just have to see how it works out but I think we've had about 1200 arrivals since Mr Rudd made his changes."
Actress Imogen Bailey says, a year on, Australia is still forgetting its moral obligations.
"Something could happen in Australia tomorrow and we could all be made refugees, and with the way the current situation is and the current government is handling things, it's likely that many countries would turn us away."
Broadcaster Michael Smith says people-smugglers are still able to trade on what he calls the glittering prize of residency in Australia.
"They're not taking it off the table. They are pretending to, they are saying it's going to be in East Timor, maybe not, well it's going to be in Malaysia, maybe not, well it's definitely going to be in New Guinea - trust me, well maybe not."
Somali refugee Abdi Aden has devoted his time since the show to a busy schedule of public speaking.
"After Go Back, a lot of people are saying come and talk to people because a lot of them are scared. They're not sure what's going on and no-one is giving the right information to most of the Australian public."
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