Ali Kadri, the CEO of the Islamic College of Brisbane (ICB), is determined to break down the insularity between different communities, and help his students prepare for the wider world. But it's taken him nearly a year to find a handful of families willing to volunteer for his experiment, and not all his teachers think that it's a good idea. Now, in the first stage of the experiment, six students and families from the Catholic all-boys school, Padua College, its Catholic sister school Mount Alvernia, and the secular state high school, Ferny Grove leave their communities and cross the river, into the very different and far more multicultural world of south Brisbane, and the ICB.
The Swap was broadcast on SBS ONE at Wednesday 8 March 2023, 09:29.