By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
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VSU dispute at Tas Uni
By Jen Crothers
HOBART — Voluntary student unionism has recently become a significant issue at the University of Tasmania here. Daniel Muggeridge, a prize-winning student, has been debarred from the University for
True Stories: Hunger Strike, A Hidden History — In March 1981, republican prisoner Bobby Sands began a hunger strike in Maze Prison, Northern Ireland, seeking political status. He died 62 days later despite demonstrations and public outcry. His was
By Michael Rafferty
The term "training wage" is a misnomer. We should call it what it really is. It is a below-award youth wage — a pay cut for all young people entering the work force, and potentially also for all young people already in the
By Robyn Marshall
The URNG, the united Guatemalan revolutionary organisation, issued a call on April 19 for international solidarity organisations to protest vigorously against the failure of the Guatemalan government to implement peace
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — During this northern spring, a strike wave has rolled across Russia. This has now become a tradition. The problems forcing workers to protest are generally the same: failure to pay wages, declining production and
Greens candidate threatened with sack
By Kest Courtice
HOBART — Jeff Briscoe, the Greens candidate in upcoming Tasmanian Legislative Council elections, has been threatened with dismissal from his job as a teacher over statements he made
Khmer Rouge on the march
By Helen Jarvis
Cambodia is once again at a crisis point. The Khmer Rouge are wreaking havoc across a 400 km arc in the north-western provinces, burning schools and hospitals so painfully rebuilt in recent years,
Anti-racism in Adelaide
By Michael Unger
ADELAIDE — The Anti-Racism Alliance (ARA) held a rally on May 7 in protest against a National Action demonstration against the racial vilification legislation.
The racist demonstration