Highlights of the AAP National WIre at = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-10-2006
Highlights of the AAP National WIre at = 2

CANBERRA - Labor says a report into Australia's tax system had given the government
an excuse not to reform taxation. (Tax Report Labor)

CANBERRA - Less than half of Australian employers are actively seeking to attract and
retain mature-age workers, a business survey has found. (Workplace Mature)



SYDNEY - Armed robbery rates fell significantly in NSW last year and rates of many
other serious crimes also dropped or remained steady, new figures show. (Crime. Also see
Crime Debnam)

Crime N/L to come.

SYDNEY - Police were still searching this morning for the killers of a young man gunned
down as he walked with a friend through a west Sydney suburb. (Shooting Daylead)

Shooting N/L to come.

SYDNEY - A Department of Corrective Services officer conspired with two criminals to
falsify the completion of court-issued Community Service Orders (CSOs), an inquiry has
been told. (Ishac)

Ishac N/L to come.

SYDNEY - The NSW Department of Community Services (DOCS) failed to adequately investigate
suicidal remarks made by a 13-year-old Sydney boy in the lead up to his death, an inquest
has been told. (Teen)



NOWRA, Nsw - A man and a woman accused of killing a couple and dumping their bodies
in barrels near Nowra, on the NSW South Coast, have again been refused bail. (Barrels
)

SYDNEY - A search-engine tool being developed in Sydney and picked up by internet giant
Google will revolutionise the way people retrieve information from the net, its developers
say. (Orion)



SYDNEY - NSW is suffering a diabetes epidemic, recording a 300 per cent increase in
the number of people with the disease in the past 10 years. (Diabetes)

Diabetes N/L to come.

SYDNEY - Police will today search on foot for a rock fisherman believed missing off
the NSW coast. (Weather NSW Daylead)

Seeking more.

SYDNEY - American entertainer Jessica Simpson has arrived in Australia as a last minute
guest for this week's MTV Australian Video Music Awards. (MTV Simpson. Pics available)

SYDNEY - Interview with actor Jack Finsterer, the star of new Australian film, Kokoda.

The film will have its world premiere in Sydney tonight. (Kokoda Finsterer. Pics available)

SYDNEY - The creator of the hit TV show Lost is short on detail when it comes to what's
in store on the US series, but he does promise one thing - more questions. (Abram. Pics
available)

SYDNEY - Interview with INXS frontman JD Fortune, with the band announcing an Australian
tour. (INXS Fortune. Pics available)

SYDNEY - Interview with actor Natalie Mendoza, the Australian star of new British TV
series Hotel Babylon. (Mendoza. Pics available)

SYDNEY - James Hardie Industries is facing more difficulties, following a dispute with
the competition regulator over the supply of its building products in Australia. (James
Hardie)

James Hardie N/L to come.

SYDNEY - A former Playboy executive has been appointed to run Fairfax's online news
and classified business, Fairfax Digital. (Fairfax)

Fairfax N/L to come.

MELBOURNE - Speed camera operators are already allowing a 10 per cent tolerance as
they target drivers for speeding in some areas of Victoria, Opposition Leader Robert Doyle
says. (Speed)



MELBOURNE - A pocket knife left in hand luggage has sparked a security scare at Melbourne
Airport, with flights delayed and hundreds of passengers waiting to be re-scanned. (Knife)

MELBOURNE - Australian scientists have discovered antifreeze genes in Antarctic grass
they believe could be used to create frost-resistant crops. (Frost)

MELBOURNE - The first of two final auctions by closing Australian art auctioneer Christie's
will be held in Melbourne tonight with last sales expected to top $5 million. (Christies)

Christies N/L to come.

MELBOURNE - Maybe it was one sports event too many after the Commonwealth Games, but
the Melbourne Grand Prix attracted a disappointing number of television viewers. (Motor
Prix Poll)

BRISBANE - A former internet porn king will face a committal hearing in Brisbane on
drug charges. (Lasrado)

BRISBANE - A four-year-old boy was killed when he was hit by a car that ploughed through
a fence and into the front yard of a Brisbane house where he was playing. (Yard)

Yard N/L to come.

BRISBANE - An investigation has yet to find the cause of a helicopter crash which killed
four people in remote north Queensland. (Chopper)

BRISBANE - Up to 15 men armed with baseball bats and pool cues have assaulted a 71-year-old
man and his 21-year-old grandson in their home in Brisbane's north. (Bats)

Bats N/L to come.

BRISBANE - A man has been attacked by a steer and pushed into a barbed wire fence while
mustering cattle in south-east Queensland. (Steer)

BRISBANE - A child protection group wants to make it illegal for teenagers under the
age of 18 to go out with either men or women who are five years older than them.(Teens
to come)

ADELAIDE - Amanda Vanstone announcement regarding Villawood detention centre in Sydney.

ADELAIDE - A 23-year-old Adelaide man has been charged with drug and weapons offences
after police were tipped off about a power cord running over a fence between two houses.

(Power )

ADELAIDE - Newly listed company Toro Energy Ltd has begun drilling for uranium in South
Australia's far west. (Toro)

PERTH - Trial begins of a man accused of a role in Western Australia's second-biggest
cocaine haul, worth an estimated $45 million. (Sukkar to come)

PERTH - Extra federal funding will be given to a hospital in the north of Western Australia,
for faster processing of detained foreign fishermen, federal customs minister Chris Ellison
said today. (Fishermen)

DARWIN - Life is returning to normal in the flood-hit Northern Territory town of Katherine,
where the state of emergency status has been lifted as the waters recede. (Floods NT)

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