His travels took him to the Italians of Ingham in Queensland; the Germans of the Barossa Valley; the ethnically diverse township of Katanning in WA; and the Sydney suburb of Fairfield, home to people hailing from the Middle East and South Sudan. It was there that he met former asylum seeker Albie Aldahawi, whose response to racist schoolyard bullying was to become a pro wrestler.

“Albie had a tragic upbringing – living in detention camps, growing up as a refugee kid in Fairfield. Seeing how he and his family are able to fit into a community that’s been there for 40 years was really interesting,” says Hing.

As a fifth-generation Chinese-Australian, Hing is himself no stranger to racism. During Pauline Hanson’s rise in the 1990s, he was told by friends’ well-meaning parents that he was “one of the good Asians”. And he’s been asked where he really comes from all his life, from people who can’t accept as a valid answer the Sydney suburb of Illawong.

“When you ask someone where they’re from, the onus is on you to accept whatever answer they give you. You don’t want people to feel like they’re not from here when they are. You don’t want people to feel like they’re not welcome here or they’re not part of this community or this nation. So when you ask someone where they’re really from, the implication is often that they’re not from here.”

Sometimes, of course, the prejudice is less ambiguous. While shooting season one in a park in Toowoomba, Queensland, a passer-by took umbrage with the focus of the documentary on the town’s South Sudanese community.

“He said, ‘Well why isn’t anyone making a f--king documentary about the whites?’ And then he called me the worst swear word in the English language with ‘yellow’ in front of it.”

To those who would subscribe to a mindset that, “It’s OK to be white”, Hing has remarkable empathy.

“I can understand the frustration you might have about people who look like me telling stories of people who look like me. But the reason I think a lot of these people are frustrated is because they’re used to everything being about them. They are used to going to the movies and only seeing people who look like them. When you’re used to a certain privilege, equality feels like disenfranchisement, right? Because you suddenly don’t get that special treatment. I would imagine if I was in that situation, I’d probably be a little mad about it as well. But that doesn’t make it right.”