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Do you have any burning issues you want made public?

ACCORDING TO Angela Chan, the Chairperson of the Ethnic Communities Council of NSW,

ownership of a major television network and newspaper by the same company could amount to

"thought control… it's frightening".

Jock Given, the director of the Communications Law Centre in Sydney, says: "If you have both the

top rated TV network and the number two publisher, and line that up with what Murdoch already controls,

then I think that this is very disturbing."

It has been observed that if ownership of the media were to become overtly concentrated, new ideas might

not even be formed, much less expressed.

Democracy is a process that relies on new ideas being available to be passed around, chewed over and modified.

If new ideas do not emerge, Democracy dies.

Worldwide, most print media publications are bland, politically correct and have become

monopolistic institutions.

Where are the crusading investigative reporters and colourful columnists?

The fire in the belly of the newspaper industry has gone out. It has been dampened by corporate overlords.

The press has forgotten how to provide interesting, entertaining news which is why it is haemorrhaging

via the Internet.

It seems editors and journalists working on hardcopy newspapers are no longer allowed to be provocative,

for fear of being given their termination notice. In addition, owners expect editors to know what is wanted

of them without being told.

The average reader sees major newspapers as effectively controlled by multi-national corporations

and big business, who are behind the scenes involved with supporting one or another political party,

and/or one big business entity.

It is becoming rare to see in the print media truly independent investigative journalism.

In this regard, Australia has a much more deep-rooted problem. This is partly caused by Australia's isolation,

the power bases whom effectively control Australia taking advantage of the easygoing nature of Australians,

and partly because there simply is no truly independent mainstream media outlet in Australia.

What is urgently needed is independent press where average Australians can have a say when they

feel their country is not being run on a fair and equitable basis by those who have assumed control of

the legal and political system – a system that is meant to belong to all Australians, not just a select and

powerful few.

High demand for shares in new floats
by Marvyn Moore 

In 1997 a massive $28 billion was devoured in equities by small investors, who have now realised that

there is more instant and retrievable profit in taking up parcels of shares in new promising share floats

before listing.

This option has been recognised as being better than investing in real estate, and as a result,

the stock market is poised for exciting new growth, according to a report by Macquarie Equities.

The report predicted that support fro small share issues would see an 88 percent increase in

private sector floats from 1996 onwards, when they were $4.1 billion.

Robert Credaro, Kim Ta and Roy Shackley, analysts for the McQuarie report describe retail investors as

"very resilient".

The now famous Telstra Float saw the appearance in the market of thousands of average small investors,

most of whom were buying shares for the first time.

These investors made instant profits on the day the Telstra shares were listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

The difference between these profits and profits made in real estate is that they are instantly retrievable

with a simple phone call to your stock broker.

INL expected to float at good price

One of the reasons it is expected that the International News Limited (INL) shares will float at a good price

is that none of the big institutional investors will be able to buy any large parcels of shares before the float.

They will need to line up with ordinary people to subscribe to the Australian Weekend News, and be within

the first 20,000 subscribers in order to receive their option to take up 2000 $1 shares.

This will frustrate big institional investors who will end up having to try to buy the large shareholdings

they would like to own in INL after the float from the ordinary people at a price the ordinary people are

prepared to sell to them - if they want to sell their shares at all.

Big institutional investors spend more than $3 billion on new share floats  each year and like to buy shares

in all media floats.

It will take only a few of these institutional investors to place buying orders at best after the float of INL

on the stock exchange to make the shares in INL go to a fair price.

It is expected that INL shares will go above the $5 price West Australian Newspapers Ltd sells for,

because they will be tightly held with no large parcels of shares available for sale on the market.

Share prices are set by supply and demand and if the demand is high, with few shares available to

supply that demand, then the price must rise.

For this reason we urge readers to subscribe to the Australian Weekend News and be the first 20,000

who will receive a prospectus and an option for the purchase of 2000 $1 shares in the float.

Win a block of land in Collie

All who subscribe will receive a card that they will be able to use for discounts at various WA businesses.

A list of these businesses will be supplied with the card.

Subscribers' names will also go into a draw for the prize of a residential block of land in Collie,

just 30 minutes drive from the City of Bunbury, in WA South West.

The way we were

New Shares Rocket in Record Debut
DAILY NEWS 1969,
PERTH, WA:

Kia Ora Gold Corporation fully paid (25 cents) shares hit $5.50 in their stock exchange debut today.

It was the most spectacular share opening in memory.

It dwarfed the records of the Consolidated Gold Fields of Australia and Hamersley Holding debuts,

which make history on the stock exchanges.

Fortunes were made within minutes of the Adelaide and Sydney exchanges opening. Trading in other

stocks was closed for 15 minutes in Adelaide while brokers bid frantically.

The 10 per cent paid shares hit $5.30 in the opening burst.

In Adelaide Kia Ora's 32-year-old executive director, Brian Hill, is reputed to hold more than 300,000 shares,

a paper profit of more than $1.5 million.

It is believed that one of the biggest gains to come from the Kia Ora float was by a Sydney stockbroker who

could have made about $1 million in paper profit.

Queensland senator Ian Woods - who still regards a bicycle as the best means of transport today -

made a $250,000 paper profit in just one minute flat.

He held just over 50,000 Kia Ora shares.

The company's brilliant opening stemmed from its piggings in the nickel hot spot.

Among its wide spread WA nickel leases, is one bordering the Poseidon nickel strike at Windarra,

more than 100 miles north of Kalgoorlie.

Kia Ora has also pegged and applied for 11 claims at Pioneer, the other hot nickel spot, and has claims

in the Mount Keith area.

Rigby returns to back a cause

WORLD FAMOUS West Australian cartoonist Paul Rigby has agreed to provide

the Australian Weekend News with a special collectors item cartoon which will appear next issue.

Paul Rigby was the cartoonist whose art graced the back page of the Daily and Weekend News for many years.

He saw himself as "the people's cartoonist", using his talent for drawing and humour to bring to light

the common person's view of the games played by powerbrokers.

In addition to Paul's cartoon, his son Pete will write an article for the collectors' edition.

Be sure to get your subscription in today!

"The Australian Weekend News will provide a reasonably priced

alternative,

that will be owned by the Australian people. "

By subscribing to Australian Weekend Newsyou will help make history and you'll be sure to receive

your copy of each edition.

In relaunching the Weekend News as the Australian Weekend News, we are endeavouring to put the power

of the press into the hands on the people.

In WA advertisers have little choice about where to spend their money - and advertising rates continue to climb.

The West Australian, for instance, promised economy of scale after the closure of the Daily-Weekend News,

but has regularly increased its ad rates.

The Australian Weekend News will provide a reasonably priced alternative, that will be owned by

the Australian people.  Ed.

RIGBY (in London) ON THE MOONWALK 
Tuesday November 18, 1969

"You'll hafta burn them off at the lights, or it's goodbye rock collection!!"