Unfortunately this "stop the boats" debate, and the resulting misinformation on both sides of politics, is stopping us from having real discussions about the difficult decisions required to effectively determine who Australia will help, how many, and under what conditions.
The Christmas Island disaster has already escalated the boat people debate, although the country's politicians have temporarily called a truce in respect for the dead.
On the boat, Mulder and Smith debate whether they should save Mulder's mother Teena, despite the risk of Men in Black awaiting them.
As well as hosting a debate, the boat will be open to the public, who will be able to board it when it moors along the river, look inside, and enjoy its immersive, birdsong-filled environment.
After restoring the broadcast, Christof orders the show's crew to create a large storm to try to capsize the boat, prompting a heated debate with his superiors over the morality and legality of murdering a human being in front of a live audience.
For the moment, though, in the clubs and pubs of Britain, the talk about Saturday's fiasco has turned largely to the old debate about the boat race.
In the director's chair for the second time (following 2013's The Network, which documents Afghanistan's first independent television station) Orner doesn't debate whether the boats have stopped.
And in recent years, the complicated debate over which boats and disciplines should constitute the 11 separate Olympic sailing events, which are allocated by the International Olympic Committee, has been intense and free-wheeling.
John Menadue, a former head of Australia's immigration department, is the sort of critic to deplore his country's "screwed-up debate" and "phobia about boats".
Putting all earmarks in the same boat, as critics often do, distorts the debate and does a disservice to the public.
