Hazem Shammas last year won a Logie for his role in TV show Safe Harbour, a drama which follows the story of five Australians who set out on a sailing holiday and encounter an overcrowded fishing boat of desperate asylum seekers.

But it was a long trip to the podium one that goes right back to his Palestinian parents’ migration from a small village in northern Israel in the 1970s to an insurmountable challenge of being typecast as either a drug dealer or criminal on Australian screens. | Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo

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