Australian health workers to close intensive care units in Victoria next week

Thursday, March 13, 2008 Members of Australia’s Health Services Union (HSU) will go on strike in Victoria next week in a dispute over stalled wage and career structure negotiations. Over 5000 physiotherapists, speech pathologists and radiation therapists will walk off the job next week, effectively closing the state’s 68 largest health services. The strike will force the closure of intensive care units and emergency departments across the state. It is feared the strike could continue into Easter. National secretary of the HSU, Kathy Jackson said admissions would be crippled, while…

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Property Tycoons Forum

Click Here For More Specific Information On: Buying A Property With No Deposit Melbourne Submitted by: Parmdeep Vadesha Property tycoons forum is online forum of the Vadesha Properties Tycoons Community. On this property tycoons forum, property investors can discuss investment topics with other investors along with discussions there are many property investment articles are available for download. There are many sections of this property tycoons forum. The first section is getting started. If you are new to this forum then this section will help you to understand about all exciting…

Wikinews 2020: An ‘Original reporting’ year in review

Friday, January 1, 2021 After an active year of original content published on the English-language Wikinews, we take a look back at some of the two dozen-plus original reports from our contributors during 2020. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews_2020:_An_%27Original_reporting%27_year_in_review&oldid=4641414”

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Wikinews interviews Jeff Jacobsen, creator of LisaMcPherson.org

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 On Sunday, Wikinews interviewed creator of memorial site LisaMcPherson.org, former Lisa McPherson Trust employee and long time Scientology critic Jeff Jacobsen. LisaMcPherson.org is a memorial site created in 1997 containing information on her death and the resulting legal case against the Church of Scientology. Lisa McPherson died in 1995 while in the care of the Church of Scientology. After a car accident, she became mentally unstable. Scientologists removed her from the hospital and placed her in the Introspection Rundown, she died 17 days later while still…

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Restrictions imposed in China textile trade with U.S.

Saturday, May 21, 2005 In an effort to ease complaints by the U.S. and Europe about a heavy influx of low priced Chinese goods, China will raise export tariffs on 74 categories of textile products in June. This follows plans from the U.S. to impose quotas on Chinese textiles and clothing. Products likely to see an increase from the Chinese move include synthetic fiber shirts, trousers, knit shirts and blouses, cotton shirts, and combined cotton yarn. Last week, similar restrictions were imposed by the U.S. on cotton trousers, knit shirts,…

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The Advantages Of Internet Radio Stations

Click Here For More Specific Information On: Australian Recording Industry Association By Ryan Pauline The first internet radio stations were launched in the latter part of the 90s, and since then more and more people have tuned in to streaming radio via the World Wide Web. The following are the advantages of online stations over their offline counterparts: Convenience Listening to Internet radio is easy – all you need is your PC or your laptop and you’re all set. You can even listen to streaming radio with non-PC devices –…

Interview with Anna Mikkola, Finnish Left Alliance candidate for European Parliament

Friday, May 29, 2009File:Anna Mikkola.jpg Anna Mikkola is running for European Parliament in Finland as a member of the eco-socialist Left Alliance party. At the age of 28 she’s the youngest member of the 14 candidates on the Left Alliance’s list for the multi-national body. She spoke to Wikinews during a break in campaigning. Finland votes in the European Parliament election on June 7. Thanks for joining us, Anna. ((Anna Mikkola)) Thanks for asking. I had a convenient break in the campaign this afternoon. ((WN)) You’re the youngest member of…

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Thousands Of Professionals Free Templates With Host Gator Web Hosting

By Russell Blanc With business booming because of e-commerce, the World Wide Web is being flooded with numerous websites. These days everybody seems to have a website that works with their business. Website designing in earlier days required knowledge of HTML code that had to be technically skilled and proficient. Today, with the help of Hostgator, things are a lot smoother and more streamlined compared to how they were before. Nowadays, you can easily get free templates, which you can use to build your website. HostGator offers this feature with…

Imperial College London geology students fined in China for “illegal map-making”

Monday, January 5, 2009 Three British geology students of Imperial College London have been fined in China for “illegal survey and map-making activities”, according to local media. In addition to making maps, the students were researching fault lines and earthquake activity in Xinjiang — a tense Muslim province to the west of the country where anger against Chinese rule sparked deadly attacks in 2008. The students were gathering additional data in several regions, including Kashgar, the ancient Silk Road trading post, and an oasis city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous…

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UK Wikinews Shorts: December 23, 2009

A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, December 23, 2009. Contents 1 Two-year-old child in Northern Ireland dies of H1N1 swine flu virus 2 Woman killed in collision with ambulance in Staffordshire, England 3 90-year-old man dies after car crash in Northern Ireland 4 Man dies while carrying child in railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland  Contribute to Wikinews by expanding these briefs or add a new one. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=UK_Wikinews_Shorts:_December_23,_2009&oldid=4458310”

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