By Craig Cormick
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.
Asian ferry disaster
A severely overcrowded ferry sinks in the Bay of Bengal, with the loss of more than 1500 lives.
The ferry is reported to be from Bangladesh, or maybe Burma. Other reports says it is from India — or Thailand — and the number of lives lost is reported at between 1500 and 2000.
Exact numbers are difficult to determine as CNN has no pictures and therefore won't run the story nor allocate a researcher to find more information.
And most of the world's newspapers fail to give the story more than two paragraphs, since there were no Europeans on board when the ferry sank. The story sinks without a trace.
Robert Menzies' ghost
A media uproar occurs when there is a report of a ghost at Robert Menzies' tomb.
Senior Liberal Party officials say it is a cheap Labor Party hoax, designed to sow confusion in Liberal ranks.
TV camera crews fail to record pictures of any supernatural activities and go home, but a radio journalist from a local community FM station, with equipment as sensitive as her station's programming policies, picks up strange subterranean rumbles.
One of the Liberal Party's leading think-tanks, Thomas the Think-Tank Engine, railroads a former Liberal policy adviser turned astrologer and mystic, to investigate the noises.
Subterranean radar reveals that the sound is Bob Menzies' remains turning repeatedly in his coffin.
Protests against new defamation law
Recent changes to Australia's defamation laws, opening up freedom to criticise politicians, receive protests in the form of paid advertisements in the national media.
The ads claim that far from extending freedom of speech, the new ruling will severely limit the freedom of commerce of many individuals. They are paid for by representatives from the exclusive real estate market, the racing horse industry and luxury car retailers.