Highlights of the AAP National Wire at = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-04-2005
Highlights of the AAP National Wire at = 2

CANBERRA - Australia's community legal centres have criticised ASIO's special anti-terrorism
powers as being too heavy-handed. (ASIO)

CANBERRA - Australia could expect better relations with Malaysia under the leadership
of Abdullah Badawi, Prime Minister John Howard said today. (Malaysia Aust)

CANBERRA - Efforts to wind-back salinity damage across the Murray-Darling basin are
being hampered because of a lack of skills and staff, a key review paper has found. (Salinity
to come)



CANBERRA - Scientists have cast doubt on the world's ability to accurately measure
climate change and whether it is due to human interference. (Tax Quinlan)



CANBERRA - Scientists have cast doubt on the world's ability to accurately measure
climate change and whether it is due to human interference. (Climate)



AUCKLAND - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark is an overly emotional leader who
is advised and supported by "butch" women, a prominent Maori MP has said in an extraordinary
attack on his party colleagues. (NZ Tamihere)

SYDNEY - Coles and Woolworths will be asked to give evidence before a NSW parliamentary
inquiry after damaging claims were made by the Transport Workers Union. (Trucks Lead)

Trucks Nightlead to come.



SYDNEY - Pirated video games might be cheap but they can come with a hidden cost -
prison time or a criminal record. (Piracy Nightlead)

SYDNEY - Sixty years after the end of World War II, former Australian prisoners of
war were today presented with the locks used to keep them in detention. (Changi. Pics
available)

SYDNEY - About 350 Wattyl paint workers in five states are on strike today to protest
a leaked management email in which employees were referred to as "blobs". (Wattyl to come)



SYDNEY - A company has been ordered to pay almost $16,000 to a female employer who
was sacked from her job after a court ruled her manager's threat to send her outside to
"sit with the dogs" was intimidatory. (Birdon to come)



SYDNEY - A mother who has fostered more than 40 children was today named NSW Mother
of the Year. (Mum)

SYDNEY - Blue Heelers veteran John Wood has received nine gold Logie nominations in
his time on the show, but has never won. (Logie. Pics available)

SYDNEY - Oscar winner Nicole Kidman to attend world premiere of her latest film, The
Interpreter, at Sydney's Opera House tonight. (Kidman with pics to come)



MELBOURNE - An inquiry has failed to identify what sickened almost 60 people at Virgin
Blue's Melbourne terminal, disrupting its operations for days. (Airport. With factbox)



MELBOURNE - Firefighters battling a blaze in Victoria's Wilsons Promontory National
Park are hoping for rain today as authorities begin assessments of property lost. (Bushfires
Vic Daylead)

Bushfires Vic Nightlead to come.



MELBOURNE - Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation chairman Ron Walker says
ticket sales for next year's event are on target. (Com06 Tickets)

BRISBANE - Queensland police needed to take a tougher stance against domestic violence
and lay more criminal charges against offenders, the Crime and Misconduct Commission said
today. (Domestic)



BRISBANE - Queensland Premier Peter Beattie today hit back at claims he should not
leave the country while controversy dogged the Speaker of Parliament, saying he was determined
to get on with the business of government. (Hollis Nightlead)



BRISBANE - Two men appeared in a Brisbane court today charged over the murder of a
17-year-old youth whose decapitated body was found in a shallow grave on Friday. (Body)

BRISBANE - Recirculated air on aeroplane flights does not spread infectious diseases,
a new study has found. (Disease to come)



ADELAIDE - The car industry's record run, especially for importers, looks set to continue
with the release this week of official sales figures for March. (Motor sales )

ADELAIDE - Australian mountaineers Duncan Chessell and Paul Hockey plan to throw a
boomerang from the summit of Mt Everest in May. (Everest. Pics available )

PERTH - Efforts to rescue a pod of pilot whales stranded on a West Australian beach
will continue today when volunteers and wildlife officials try to herd them back into
deep water. (Whales Daylead)

Whales Nightlead to come.



PERTH - A Perth boy whose hands and foot were surgically reattached following an horrific
basketball accident has today undergone further surgery. (Basketball to come)



PERTH - A 71-year-old man remains critically ill today as police work to determine
why his Perth home unit was ripped apart by a huge explosion. (Units Daylead)

HOBART - A Melbourne man is lucky to be alive following a high-speed powerboat accident
on the Derwent River in Hobart. (Powerboat)

DARWIN - Northern Territory police today issued a stern warning to outback motorists
after pulling over a tip truck with 26 people packed into the back tray. (Load)



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