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AAP General News (Australia)
08-03-2011
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MELBOURNE - Prime Minister Julia Gillard has refused to reveal what she discussed in
a meeting with News Ltd editors, despite previously saying the company had a responsibility
to answer "hard questions". (News Ltd Gillard Update)

MELBOURNE - Former Victorian police chief commissioner Christine Nixon says she hopes
people will move on from focusing on her dinner on Black Saturday. (Nixon) WRAP to come

MELBOURNE - Letters to My Daughter - private letters of Sir Robert Menzies launch -
Malcolm Fraser, Peter Costello, et al, to be there. (MENZIES to come)

MELBOURNE - Tour de France winner Cadel Evans will parade through Melbourne next week
in a triumphant return to the city. (Evans) WRAP to come

MELBOURNE - An Indian man who falsely threatened to have a woman deported unless she
paid him money is seeking leniency because he fears deportation himself, a Melbourne court
has heard. (Singh)

BALLARAT - Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu says he is confident Liberal MP Lorraine
Wreford will be in parliament when it next sits following her overseas trip after her
home was sprayed with bullets. (Wreford 2nd Update) WRAP to come.

CANBERRA - Kevin Rudd is doing victory "scamper" laps of a Brisbane hospital ward two
days after his heart surgery. (Rudd)

CANBERRA - While Kevin Rudd is recovering from heart surgery his wife is madly trying
to resuscitate his Blackberry mobile phone. (Rudd Phone)

CANBERRA - Farmers have welcomed a delay in releasing a plan to save the Murray-Darling
Basin, which won't be released until at least mid-October with talks between the states
and the federal government yet to be resolved. (Murray Update)

CANBERRA - The international community must condemn the Syrian regime's attacks on
its own people, opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Julie Bishop says. (Syria Bishop)

CANBERRA - Carers of children with Type 1 diabetes will now keep their allowance until
their kids turn 16. (Diabetes, WRAP to come)

CANBERRA - Malcolm Turnbull has laughed off a new poll showing he has almost equal
support to lead the Labor party as prime minister Julia Gillard. (Poll Labor Update)

SYDNEY - NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has defended plans to give registered clubs a
$300 million tax cut. (Clubs) WRAP to come

SYDNEY - Relatives and associates of a man charged with possessing enough chemicals
to make 50kg of the drug ice are likely to be interviewed by police. (Ice Update) WRAP
to come

SYDNEY - Gillian Sneddon, the whistleblower in the Milton Orkopoulos child sex case,
could lose more than a third of her damages payout after being ordered to pay legal costs
for the state of NSW. (Sneddon) WRAP to come

SYDNEY - Outgoing director Edmund Capon has been hailed for making the Art Gallery
of NSW one of Australia's most treasured institutions. (Capon 2nd Update (pix available),
WRAP to come)

SYDNEY - A rare collection of books and maps detailing the discovery of the "southern
continent" long before it was named Australia is being offered for sale. (Collection)

SYDNEY - Australians aren't spending enough time in the land of nod, raising fears
that many people think sleeping has become a waste of time. (Sleep)

BRISBANE - Ipswich flood victims will receive "a pittance" from RACQ Insurance and
far less than they are morally entitled to, councillor Paul Tully says. (Floods RACQ)
FLOODS WRAP EXPECTED

BRISBANE - A man accused robbing a Brisbane store, trying to hold up a bank and stealing
a taxi has told a court he was seeing and hearing things at the time. (Southee)

BRISBANE - A bushfire that had threatened properties on Gladstone's southern outskirts
has been brought under control. (Bushfire Qld Wrap)

BRISBANE - Six months on from Cyclone Yasi Cardwell couple Molly and Archie Dunn are
still living surrounded by tarpaulins in their downstairs garage. (Yasi Couple)

BRISBANE - Supervised injection clinics for drug addicts will help reduce crime in
Brisbane and on the Gold Coast, civil libertarians say. (Inject)



GOLD COAST - The woman charged with murdering Gold Coast detective Damian Leeding during
a hold-up has faced court over another armed robbery about a month earlier. (McAvoy)

GOLD COAST - Former Olympic boxer Fred Casey has been hit with a hammer while fighting
off armed robbers on the Gold Coast. (Rob Wrap)

GOLD COAST - Gold Coast residents who've been using air horns to scare away bats could
expose themselves to law suits for compounding the Hendra risk. (Bats)

ADELAIDE - South Australia's Liberals are urging the state's premier-in-waiting Jay
Weatherill to "finish off" Labor's politically wounded leader, Mike Rann. (Rann, RANN
WRAP to come)

ADELAIDE - South Australians deserve better than the political farce that is being
played out over the replacement of Premier Mike Rann, a Liberal senator says. (Rann Edwards)

ADELAIDE - An Adelaide woman murdered a pensioner, cut up her body and dumped it in
a creek so she could sell her house and steal her belongings, a court has been told. (Gavare)

ADELAIDE - Former footballer Fabian Francis goes on trial accused of multiple charges
of violence against his corrupt cop ex-wife. (FRANCIS to come)

ADELAIDE - Community backing has been strong for South Australia's plan to ban urban
development across large areas of the state's key wine and tourism districts, Urban Development
Minister John Rau says. (Willunga )

ADELAIDE - Holden's car sales in Australia are being driven by locally produced models,
latest sales show. (Holden )

PERTH - Western Australia's Mines Department will investigate allegations that safety
is being compromised at the Frog's Leg gold mine near Kalgoorlie. (Mine)

PERTH - A Perth father has been convicted of assault after headbutting another parent
who reprimanded him for swearing at children during a junior football match. (Wilkes)

PERTH - A man charged with the stabbing murder of a 17-year-old boy during a street
disturbance in Perth has applied for bail in the Supreme Court. (SIEVERS to come)

HOBART - Labor MP Dick Adams has criticised his Tasmanian colleagues, saying he was
"devastated" by the decisions of former premier David Bartlett. (Labor Tas)

HOBART - Police have arrested 12 past and present members of a Launceston bike gang
over a suspected drug trafficking ring. (Seizure)

PORT MORESBY - The surprise election of Peter O'Neill as Papuan New Guinea's seventh
prime minister on Tuesday could open the country up to a constitutional crisis, local
media reports. (PNG Politics)

AUCKLAND - Fijians are having to go without fried chicken with the nation's three KFC
outlets forced to close after running out of their signature breadcrumb mix. (Fiji KFC)

AUCKLAND - The chance of being killed in a natural disaster in the Pacific has dropped
by a third in the past 20 years, but the economic cost of such events is skyrocketing,
a new report has found. (Pacific Disasters)

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