Old Daily News building now turned into Community News Group

Community News Group 50% owned by Murdoch's Sunday Times and 50% West Australian Newspapers (WAN)
to keep their joint stranglehold on WA lucrative advertising dollars.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S MUCH LOVED
Weekend News is set to be relaunched as
an Australia-wide weekly newspaper.

It will have inserts for each state and a worldwide presence on the Internet.

The Daily News-Weekend News was mothballed in the early 1990s by the then owners of
the West Australian Newspaper group (WAN), because a former Trade Practices Commissioner
 Bob Baxt told them that it was a monopoly to control both newspapers. But instead of selling
this valuable asset to an independent operator, WAN ran up millions of dollars worth of bills
and put it into liquidation.

The Weekend News Publishing Group (WNPG), owner of the Weekend News masthead,
 is offering 100 free shares in International News Limited (INL), to each of the first
 100,000 subscribers to the Australian Weekend News. Also for a limited time, advertisers
 who spend $500 upwards will receive FREE, the equivalent value in $1 INL shares.
The expectation is that INL will float on the Australian Stock Market as a public company
 in January 2002.

INL will also receive 50 per cent of the profits from the marketing rights of the McNaturals
 name by setting up McNaturals health food outlets, growing McNaturals fruit and vegetables
 and providing McNaturals Healing Juices and mineral spring water.

McNaturals promotes the greater use of naturally grown raw fruit and vegetables in your diet.

The other 50 per cent of McNaturals profits from the use of the McNaturals’ name will go to
McNaturals Education Foundation Ltd - a seperate non profit organisation set up to teach
environmentally friendly practices and provide naturally grown food the way nature intended,
with no chemicals or pesticides.
INL will publish the Australian Weekend News, and will be a broad-based media company
covering all facets of media. As well, the first 20,000 subscribers will receive an option to take
 up 2000 $1 INL shares, before the float of INL on the Australian Stock Exchange.
 A prospectus will be provided for those wishing to take up the option to buy 2000 $1 INL shares.
The aim is to provide ordinary Australians with their own newspaper, to be the people’s voice.
Today, Australians receive their news mainly from Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Packer backed
organisations.
According to a financial estimate, the Murdoch and Packer companies supply 49 per cent of
Australia’s information.
The Australian Weekend News will contain international, national and a local news insert for
each state.
Issues concerning women, children and minority groups will be given a fair airing, which is sadly
lacking in many publications.
In the opinion of the owners of WNPG the low level of women and children’s issues dealt with
 in the press reflects the lack of women in key positions in Australian organisations.
To balance its content, the Australian Weekend News will be co-edited by a male and female editor.
As part of the promotional drive, the Australian Weekend News/INL Group has taken
 over Health Arena newspaper, a well established integrated health publication that
has a keen readership throughout WA. The May-June edition of Health Arena contains
an Australian Weekend News liftout as a lead-up to the re-launch. Be sure to pick up
your May-June Health Arena, or subscribe to the Australian Weekend News and
 have it mailed to you. You won’t be sorry, because it will be a rare collectors item.
The Rigby family promised a Paul Rigby cartoon all the way from Paul’s retirement retreat
in Florida, USA and a Peter Rigby article from his retreat in Margaret River.