On the box

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) 9564 1277. 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.

My Mother India — Account of writer/director Sabina Uberoi's parents' mixed-race marriage and her own quest for identity, which unfolds into a complex commentary on the social, political and religious events of the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. SBS, Friday, June 27, 8.30pm.

Message Stick: Apek Kebile — Looks at Eddie Mabo, his love for his people and culture and his passion for his homeland, Murray (Mer) Island in the Torres Strait. ABC, Sunday, June 29, 1.30pm.

Outing Gay Hate — This program maintains that for decades, Australia's culture of homophobia has concealed the brutality and given perpetrators licence to continue the violence. Interviews with High Court Justice Michael Kirby, Federal Human Rights Commissioner Chris Sidoti, hate crime counsellor Anthony Schembri and Stevie Clayton, deputy director of the AIDS Council of NSW. SBS, Monday, June 30, 1.05am.

The Cartel: Oil And The US Government — George W. Bush's administration has always had a close affiliation to America's oil and energy industry. This German documentary maintains that Bush owes his position to contacts with powerful members of these industries and it's now "payback" time. SBS, Tuesday, July 1, 8.30pm.

From Green Left Weekly, June 25, 2003.

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From GLW issue 543