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Australia offers free Big Brother experience to non-white visitors.
 The Australian government in an apparent attempt to boost tourism to the continent has started an ambitious program code-named “Big Brother’s with you”.
The program, which singles out visitors with Arab or African origins for extra hospitality provides luxury free hotel accommodation in any one of a series of holiday camps opened in authentic isolated locations.
Mahamadou Sacko a French resident who signed up for a language course in Sydney enjoyed the new system first hand.
“It was fabulous.” He told BIGfib. “It’s all very exciting, and you never know whether you’ll go through to the finals or not… They have a kind of unofficial lottery and visitors never quite know if they’ll be lucky or not…”
As Mahamadou passed through Australian immigration he realized though that his luck was in.
“There was a scratch on the photo in my passport… That day, with that particular immigration officer it was all I needed. Who could have guessed?”
“First of all I got to play on a game show… they asked me loads of questions, who is the French president, the name of the highest mountain, they even asked me to sing the Marseillaise… I think I got the answers right, anyway but it was well worth it because as the end I got to go through to the Big Brother stage.”
Mahamadou was whisked away to the high security Big Brother centre where he was kept under lock and key for 5 days.
“Conditions were a little cramped, and the toilets were kind of grubby, and the food was pretty bad… but I suppose there were a lot of winners that week.” Mahamadou said understandingly.
“There were cameras everywhere… And they kept asking us questions, a kind of Big Brother and game show combined… I suppose the whole thing was televised… I feel so lucky to have been given this break…”
Finally the French embassy sent a car to whisk Mahamadou back to Sydney. “It’s all been so exciting.” He enthused. “I’d recommend Australia to all my friends.”
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