resistance in the Pacific campaign against Japan. Risking vicious reprisal the were deployed via boat, submarine and aircraft into occupied territories to Australia's north. The video includes interviews with survivors of Operation Jaywick and others, and includes original black and white footage.

Mahomet Allum, wonder herbalist and ladies' man, bush battler Ali Abdul, the feisty Afghan Rock men, and Sam the republican pearl diver, are some of Deen's 'men from the archives'. To others they are troublemakers and 'lustful aliens'. Unwelcome and a threat to Australian workers, these are the dark strangers in the days of the White Australia Policy, when race was used to classify people and bar them from entering the country.