How relevant is the sociological imagination for understanding contemporary Australian society regarding the Australian Asylum seeker policy? The sociological imagination describes the practice of being able to think yourself away from familiarities and daily routines and to look at things with fresh eyes. Having a fresh sociological perspective of the world enables us to look around us and think about how things interact and influence each other. The sociological imagination allows us to analyse and have an empathetic insight into a person's position in society and how geographical positions, political persuasions and societal influences affect an individual's life. The relevance of the sociological imagination is particularly evident when discussing asylum seeker policy in Australia. Using several sociological studies on refugee status and asylum seeker policy; I will utilise the sociological imagination to highlight how the political construction of asylum seekers and refugees alters the social perception and discussion that people must seek a better and safer life, while playing on the social and economic inequalities which help foster fear and promotes prejudice. Australian society has developed its viewpoint of public issues, such as systematic economic inequality and structural poverty. Systematic inequality (Mills, 1978 p18) is often under the guise or marketed as "Lazy" and the social construction of someone suffering economic downfall is often viewed as a personal issue, rather than a public issue. The social construction of economic inequality is still strongly embodied by Australian society, this is highlighted by the media discourse surrounding the socio-economic class of refugees immigrating to our country (Smith-Khan 2019, 403). Refugees of war and conflict must manage intense uncertainty and insecurity, with little time to process traumatic experiences the legal process of seeking asylum may be out of reach. The sociological imagination is crucial in understanding that viewing an act from a position of privilege may alter the information intake and media discourse regarding a subject may only provide the facts that fit within our privileged viewpoint. The sociological imagination talks in-depth about the intimate realities of ourselves, looking outside the bubble it becomes easier to understand where we get our sense of reality from (Mills 1978, p22). Often our sense of reality is taken from what is told to us, what we know about a subject is only as good as the information provided to us. Sensationalism and the seductive power of language (Pickering 2001, p172), the representation of a subject and the sensationalist pushing of information turns a subject outline such as refugees seek asylum from conflict, into boat people bypass national security measures to seek free healthcare and sneak into the country. The study within this article illustrated the language deviancy utilised to polarize a subject and to subtly influence the reality of a situation. The sociological imagination enables a deeper understanding of the role information plays on our reality and how a subject can be misrepresented to influence society and affect opinions and viewpoints. Immigration to Australia has for decades, been the focus of negative political interest (Rowe &