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The family basement "Prison guards beat a convicted thief and stepped on his penis during a search of the Wayne Correctional Institution last week, the inmate told his father." 鈥 Rhonda Cook, staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Child abuse A royal commission into the NSW police has been investigating child sex abuse since the beginning of March. This has led to the media reporting on atrocities that have occurred over the last 10 to 20 years. A former state ward
By Natasha Izatt There has been a lot of media hype against the Paxton family. A bit of a response to the hype came from media monitors and probing journos, most notably in the form of Stuart Littlemore's critique of the media coverage on his TV
By Lou Gugenberger The Hilmer Report and the subsequent "competition policy reforms" are now law in both the Commonwealth and the states. They will have a greater effect on the lives of all Australians, it is suggested, than the Harvester judgment
By Dorothy Tumney There has been a barrage of anti-environment movement propaganda in the establishment media over the last 12 months. John O'Neill's article "Environmentalists and the Temple of Doom", published in the January 20 Sydney Morning
Philippine unions prepare for challenges MANILA 鈥 The Philippine labour movement, one of the most militant in Asia, faces a government zealously pursuing a policy of economic deregulation dictated by GATT and the structural adjustment programs of