AAP General News (Australia)
08-07-2005
Highlights of the AAP National Wire at 1930 AEST =
2 CANBERRA - Much of the razor wire is to be removed from Sydney's Villawood detention
centre in a move described by the government as an example of its softer approach to immigration
detention. (Detention Nightlead)
CANBERRA - The Australian Greens will nominate for the Senate presidency for the first
time when parliament resumes this week. (Senate Greens)
CANBERRA - Mothers with young children will find it harder to get a higher education
if compulsory student union fees are abolished, university childcare services say. (VSU
Childcare. Eds Note: Embargoed until 0001 AEST, Monday, Aug 8)
CANBERRA - Australian politicians have remembered former British
foreign secretary
Robin Cook, who died overnight, as a man of conscience and a good friend of Australia.
(UK Cook Aust Nightlead )
PORT MORESBY - The
New Zealand government has run into flak over plans to fly war veterans
to the Solomon Islands for a quick stopover to commemorate the end of the war in the Pacific.
(Solomons NZ)
SYDNEY - Community events rather than strikes will spearhead the assault against the
federal government's planned industrial relation reforms, Unions NSW secretary John Robertson
says. (Workplace Weekend Lead (pix available))
SYDNEY - The NSW government says the problems behind last year's Redfern riots have
been resolved and it will fully cooperate with a WorkCover investigation into the matter.
(Redfern Scully)
SYDNEY - The NSW government has expanded its public hospital records surveillance system
to combat a potential bioterrorist threat. (Terror Hospital)
SYDNEY - Police have sent out thanks to rugby league fans who have helped investigations
into a fireworks incident at an NRL match last month. (Fireworks Lead)
SYDNEY -
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has paid tribute to his former British counterpart,
Robin Cook, who has died overnight. (UK Cook Downer)
SYDNEY - Tasmanian farmers campaigning for stricter food labelling laws received a
warm welcome as they brought their fight to Sydney today, taking their tractor convoy
through the suburbs and over the Harbour Bridge. (Farmers. Pics available)
MELBOURNE - A Muslim sheikh has used an Australian rally marking the 60th anniversary
of the Hiroshima bombing to call for the United States to "shrink from aggressiveness",
and stop occupying other countries. (Sheikh)
MELBOURNE - A $100,000 reward has been posted for information leading to the conviction
of whoever fatally stabbed and ran over a man in the victim's own car more than three
years ago. (Weber)
BRISBANE - Police hope to learn tomorrow what caused the death of a central Queensland
woman feared murdered. (Yard Nightlead)
BRISBANE - The Queensland government has not ruled out prosecuting a Gold Coast casino
for potentially breaching a permit relating to three tiger cub deaths. (Tiger)
ADELAIDE - The father of Adelaide-born NASA astronaut Andy Thomas is facing an anxious
few hours praying the space shuttle Discovery with his son aboard on his farewell mission
lands safely. (US Shuttle Thomas)
ADELAIDE - A horrific road accident in South Australia's south-east has prompted an
urgent road safety warning from local police. (Toll SA Nightlead)
PERTH - West Australian medical researchers believe an aggressive form of cancer will
soon be able to be attacked more effectively after discovering gene changes hampered current
treatments. (Leukaemia)
PERTH - A national screening program could help prevent sudden heart-related deaths
in the under 35s, a meeting of cardiologists has been told. (Heart)
DEVONPORT, Tas - Unions have accused the Tasmanian Labor Party of ignoring workers'
rights after the government shut down debate on the Workers Compensation Act at the ALP
state conference. (Labor Tas Unions)
DEVONPORT, Tas - The "fervent, religious, ideological" view of extreme conservationists
was threatening the future of Tasmania's forest industry, state Resources Minister Bryan
Green says. (Labor Tas Forest)
DEVONPORT, Tas - Free trade deals with other countries will destroy the production
and manufacturing industry in Australia, Tasmanian Labor delegates have been told. (Labor
Tas)
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