On the box

Message Stick: Child Artists of Carrolup — Indigenous children discover and excel at art at the Carrolup School of Western Australia in 1945. ABC, Friday, December 3, 6pm.

Family Story: Wyrria, Small Boy — Explores the daily realities of a young Aboriginal boy's life on the outskirts of Alice Springs. ABC, Monday, December, 6, 8pm.

Fortress Europe: Death on the Border — Looks at Western Europe's increasingly restrictive view of refugees and asylum seekers since the fall of the Berlin Wall. SBS, Monday, December 6, 1.55pm.

City Cabs: Havana, Cuba — Michael Krass tours Havana with English-speaking Christobal, who conducts lessons for other taxi drivers, and meets a descendant of revolutionary Simon Bolivar. SBS, Tuesday, December 7, 3.30pm.

Rumsfeld's War — Traces Donald Rumsfeld's career from his time as an advisor to President Nixon to his rise as the well-known face of the George Bush administration during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. SBS, Tuesday, December 7, 8.30pm.

The Rock Star and the Mullahs — Examines the multiple faces of Islam. ABC, Wednesday, December 8, 9.30pm.

From Green Left Weekly, December 1, 2004.

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From GLW issue 608