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RMIT fees to rise By Sean Healy MELBOURNE — As is appropriate for a university that has just appointed smallgoods king Sam Smorgon its new chancellor, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology is leading the way on becoming a
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. The World According to Gareth
By Jennifer Thompson Israeli military experts are helping the Turkish government combat Kurdish separatist guerillas, the French weekly "confidential" newsletter TTU said on March 17. The newsletter, which uses unnamed sources, said Turkey
By Sonny Melencio Protests against the execution of Flor Contemplacion, the Filipina maid hanged in Singapore, escalated across the Philippines even after her burial on March 27. At dawn on that day, urban guerillas from the Alex Boncayao
By Chantal Wynter and Kim Linden MELBOURNE — Eighty people attended a forum on March 14 at Budinski's Theatre of Exile, in association with the reading of Classroom 3A, the testimony of Bosnian rape-camp survivor, Amira S. Elly Varrenti
By Eva Cheng More workers in Japan are likely to lose their jobs or have their pay packets cut as the rise of the yen to new heights encourages Japanese companies to shift more production lines to the Third World, where costs are cheaper.
By Con Gouriotis and Nadya Stani SYDNEY — Watching the decontamination process at the Australian Defence Industries (ADI) site at St Marys is like trying to understand, while digging up a serial killer s victims, how it ever could have
TERESITA CARPIO is an official from the 30,000-strong United Workers of the Philippines (UWP), a trade union federation of mostly women workers, based in Metro-Manila. The federation covers workers from the textile, clothing, footwear and food
By Deepa Fernandes While much is said, written and debated about the current situation of Aboriginal affairs, nothing makes as much of a statement as the opening of the Mangkaja print exhibition at the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne on
Sarcasm anyone? By Brandon Astor Jones "The trouble with the Republican Party is that it has not had a new idea for 30 years." — Woodrow Wilson America's new speaker of the House of Representatives is also a history professor who