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AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-2010
HighLights of the AAP National Wire=2

LOS ANGELES - Gabe Watson's return to Alabama may not be as sweet as he hoped. (US Watson Wrap)

PORT MORESBY - The Papua New Guinea government has been thrown into turmoil, with a
sudden mass cabinet reshuffle coming as the prime minister is expected to learn whether
he will face a leadership tribunal for alleged impropriety in office. (PNG Somare)

HOBART - A Tasmanian government minister and a group of journalists have had a lucky
escape after their twin-engine light aircraft landed on its belly at King Island airport
on Wednesday. (Plane)

CANBERRA - Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan will release his much anticipated banking competition
measures within the next week. (Banks Swan)

CANBERRA - A leading demographer says Australia's ageing baby boomers aren't going
to be happy no matter how much money governments pump into their healthcare in the coming
decades.(Aged to come)

CANBERRA - Indigenous people haven't being hearing mainstream messages regarding the
dangers of smoking, a group of health workers gathering in Canberra has been told.(Indigenous
tobacco, to come)

CANBERRA - Government set to declare RAAF's new Super Hornet aircraft ready for operations.

(Hornets to come)

CANBERRA - An overwhelming majority of Australians want governments to change classification
laws to allow for the sale of R18+ video and computer games. (Classification)

CANBERRA - The federal government has been told to waive Centrelink debts in cases
where the agency is responsible for overpayments. (Centrelink)

CANBERRA - Just under 50,000 mortgages were taken out in October - the largest number
since January - and a growing number of people sought the comfort of a fixed rate loan.

(Mortgages)

SYDNEY - The NSW Liberal Party says Parramatta MP Tanya Gadiel's decision not to recontest
the March state election for Labor is a blow for voters. (Gadiel Update,Wrap to come,
see also Gadiel Keneally)

SYDNEY - Police say they have arrested some of the nation's biggest drug barons and
dismantled six major linked syndicates, smashing narcotics networks across NSW. (Raids
Update, Wrap to come)

SYDNEY - Nearly one million mortgage holders are looking to dump their current lender
within the next six months, according to new research. (Economy Mortgage)

SYDNEY - Meditation can forge lasting changes in the brain and, as an Australian experiment
in the taboo area of self-harm shows, the positive effect can be life-transforming. (Harm,
with pic, to come).

BRISBANE - Hundreds of mourners are expected to attend a memorial service on Wednesday
for Queensland miner Willie Joynson, who perished in the New Zealand mine disaster. (NZ
Mine Aust, Update to come)

BRISBANE - Hope Street is an apt location for a bold new housing project that will
help get homeless people off Brisbane's streets. (Homeless )

CANBERRA - Federal Justice Minister Brendan O'Connor has praised the Solomon Islands
government for strengthening laws to stamp out money laundering. (Solomons Aust)

CANBERRA - The federal government has praised a decision by the international shipping
regulator to provide greater scrutiny of ships travelling near the Great Barrier Reef.

(Reef)

CANBERRA - The High Court has unanimously dismissed appeals by two men jailed for evading
more than $750,000 of income tax. (Wickenby)

SYDNEY - A Sydney neurosurgeon should have been "very much aware" of the symptoms a
prostitute displayed before her drug-related death in his apartment, a court has been
told. (Nair, Wrap to come)

SYDNEY - A British man who has died in custody in Sydney's Villawood detention centre
is believed to have been wanted to the United Kingdom on criminal charges. (Villawood
Update, Wrap to come)

SYDNEY - A man was shot in the leg when a western Sydney home was sprayed with bullets,
police say. (Leg)

SYDNEY - The NSW public sector takes more sick leave than any other jurisdiction in
Australia. (Leave)

SYDNEY - A woman is still in critical condition after she was trapped for nine hours
under 13 sheets of plasterboard at her home southwest of Sydney. (Trapped Update)

SYDNEY - The last man seen with Sydney nurse Mary Louise Wallace before she disappeared
told a Lane Cove National Park kiosk worker "You'd better watch out I might hit you over
the head and rape you". (Wallace)

SYDNEY - Almost 150 toy brands have been pulled from shelves in NSW in the largest
ever pre-Christmas blitz. (Toys)

MELBOURNE - A man who stabbed a police officer in Melbourne's outer east should not
be approached by the public, police have warned. (Officer)

MELBOURNE - A man who left his lover's husband with life-threatening injuries in a
planned knife attack burst into tears before a judge jailed him for seven years. (Dimitrakis)

GEELONG - The committal hearing for the man accused of murdering underworld figure
Carl Williams is expected to get underway in Geelong within hours. (Williams, Wrap to
come)

MELBOURNE - A young girl is distraught after a naked man tried to break into her bedroom
in Melbourne's north. (Naked Update)

BRISBANE - Experts including mental health reform advocate Patrick McGorry will meet
with families affected by mental illness at a summit in Brisbane on Wednesday. (Mental,
Wrap to come)

BRISBANE - A radiologist who tricked a female colleague into sending him raunchy photos
of herself has been struck off his professional register until he undergoes counselling.

(Hennig)

GOLD COAST - Police hope a cleaner whose throat was slashed at the Gold Coast Hospital
will be able to identify her attacker. (Cleaner 3rd Update, Wrap to come)

ADELAIDE - A union challenge to the South Australian budget will be heard by the full
court of the Supreme Court next year. (Budget SA )

PERTH - A Perth magistrate has refused to accept a not guilty plea from a mother accused
of murdering her toddler because it was offered too early in the court process. (Killeen)

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