By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from the leading TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
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SA nurses reject wage freeze
ADELAIDE — The SA branch of the Australian Nurses Federation has rejected the wage freeze proposed by the state Liberal government in its May financial statement.
The ANF federal executive reported to
El Fatra: Man in Front of the Sand — A documentary on the deserts of Africa, which are spreading at an alarming rate, forcing nomads closer to the sea. This brings them into conflict with the local fishing people. SBS, 5am, Sunday, July 3.
The
By Sue Bolton
MELBOURNE — At a time when many workers have begun to think that there is no alternative to the corporate-style union approach of giving up working conditions for a pittance of a wage rise, one union has shown that it is possible
'Cultural hooliganism' in SA
By Anthony Thirlwall
ADELAIDE — On June 22, minister for the arts Diana Laidlaw announced plans to close and sell the South Australian Film and Video Centre. The centre, one of the most highly regarded media
Taslima Nasreen
In Bangladesh, feminist Taslima Nasreen is in hiding. An Islamic fundamentalist group has declared a death sentence on her for criticising the Koran.
Nasreen is a doctor and author who writes a regular column in a
Protests at NT Trade Expo
By Sally Anne Watson
DARWIN — More than 400 Indonesian visitors have arrived to attend the Northern Territory 1994 Trade Expo. On June 23, the day before the expo opened, a large number of Indonesian businessmen
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — The Rwandan Patriotic Front, on the verge of taking power in the traumatised central African country of Rwanda, says it will "do all that can be done" to resist a French military intervention. Speaking here on June
The 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the event that heralded the rise of the movement for gay and lesbian liberation, was celebrated in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide on June 25. In Sydney, 2000 people marched from Taylor Square,
V.I. Lenin once described revolution as a festival of the oppressed. Over the weekend of June 17-19 in Brisbane, the oppressed staged their own folk festival to celebrate the winter solstice.
Festival participants responded enthusiastically to a
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