Message Stick: Crossing the Line — Two non-Indigenous medical students work in a remote Aboriginal community where their precepts and ideas are deeply challenged. ABC, Friday, February 11, 6pm.
Compass: Prom Fight, the Marc Hall Story — Young, gay Marc Hall's quest to attend his Catholic school prom with his boyfriend as his date. ABC, Sunday, February 13, 10.05pm.
Army of One — Follows three young recruits who joined the military soon after September 11 and examines how the army enforces a program of humiliation, indoctrination and devaluation. SBS, Tuesday, February 15, 12.55am.
Cutting Edge: the Doctor, the Depleted Uranium and the Dying Children — Uranium munitions used in the 1991 Gulf War are said to be responsible for Gulf War Syndrome, which has undermined the health of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians. SBS, Tuesday, February 15, 8.30pm.
Inside Australia: No Place for a Family — The relationship between Bea, a young mother at 17 and 16-year-old asylum-seeker Abdullah Kadem who faces deportation to Iraq. SBS, Wednesday, February 16, 7.30pm.
Nelson Mandela — Accused # 1 — In June 1964, Nelson Mandela and six others were sentenced to life imprisonment for planning to overthrow the Apartheid government of South Africa by military means. SBS, Thursday, February 17, 1pm.
From Green Left Weekly, February 9, 2005.
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