Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the Green Left news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone (02) 9565 5522. Visit <http://www.channel31.org> for program details.
Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, has excellent coverage of industrial, environmental and community actions throughout Victoria. Access News broadcasts every Monday, 8pm. Phone (03) 9633 6976.
Australian Biography: Bill Harney — As a “half-caste” child, Harney was darkened with charcoal in order to avoid being removed from his family, as his sister had been. He talks about tradition, equal pay and the problem of alcohol abuse. SBS, Sunday, February 2, 6pm.
Shadow Play: Indonesia's Years of Living Dangerously — Story of the West's involvement in the slaughter of more than 500,000 people in the 1965 coup in Indonesia, which brought General Suharto to power. SBS, Sunday, February 2, 8.30pm.
Tales From a Suitcase — Anne Duffy-Lindsay grew up in a radical pro-republican family in southern Ireland. After arriving in Australia in the 1950s, she became active in the trade union movement, the fledgling peace movement and the struggle for Indigenous rights. SBS, Tuesday, February 4, 3.30pm.
@9POINT =: In Search of al Qaeda — The US Frontline program investigates what has happened to the core of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network after the US “victory” in Afghanistan. SBS, Tuesday, February 4, 8.30pm.
From Green Left Weekly, January 29, 2003.
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