Water: The Drop Of Life — Examines the impact of social, economic, cultural, strategic and agricultural factors on drinking water. SBS, Friday, June 25, 1pm.

Organ Farm: Man Made Pigs — Looks at the highly secret, multibillion dollar industry of xenotransplantation (cross species transplants) and the physical and ethical dangers and benefits of transplanting animal parts into humans. SBS, Friday, June 25, 2pm.

Message Stick: Robinvale — The people of Robinvale in the north west of Victoria are trying to unite to overcome Indigenous youth unemployment. ABC, Friday, June 25, 6pm.

Compass: Unmasking Greed — Has the perpetual search for material wealth and the consumer society, pursuing possessions, eroded society's values and common humanity? ABC, Sunday, June 27, 11.30am.

Memory Tree: David Boyd — Approaching eighty, David Boyd, a provocative and passionate painter, is still fighting injustice and racism through his art. ABC, Sunday, June 27, 3pm.

Australian Biography: Jack Mundey — As secretary of the NSW Branch of the Builder's Labourer's Federation, Jack Mundey led the union's famous 'green bans', a conservation campaign that redefined the development of Australia's major cities. SBS, Sunday, June 27, 7pm.

Cutting Edge: Transplant Tourism — Transplant Tourism looks at the multi-million dollar international trade in human kidneys, showing that the sale of human body parts seems to take place wherever ``third world poverty meets first world prosperity.’‘ SBS, Tuesday, June 29, 8.30pm.

The Third World War: Al-Qaeda, The Breeding Grounds — Reveals the Australian Government was warned about the possibility of tourist bombings in SE Asia, but took no steps to prevent them. ABC, Wednesday, June 30, 8.30pm.

A Trial In Prague — Details the 1952 political show trial in Czechoslovakia of 14 prominent members of the Communist Party, most of whom were Jews. SBS, Thursday, July 1, 2pm.

Helen's War: Portrait Of A Dissident — The Nobel Peace Prize nominee, celebrity author and anti-nuclear campaigner who quit her medical career in 1978 to ``stop the bomb’‘, Helen Caldicott embarks on an explosive crusade across post-September 11 America, armed with her latest book The New Nuclear Danger. SBS, Thursday, July 1, 8.30pm.

From Green Left Weekly, June 23, 2004.
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