HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 15:30, Aug10 =2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-10-2000
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 15:30, Aug10 =2



CANBERRA - China is likely to raise concerns about Australia's mandatory sentencing
laws and treatment of Aborigines during high-level human rights talks in Canberra next
week. (China Aust to come)



CANBERRA - Liberal backbenchers have sided with the used car industry against federal
Industry Minister Nick Minchin's plan to stop imports of used cars. (Cars)



CANBERRA - Australia has sent 22 Chinese boat people back home, less than one month
after they landed illegally in Cairns. (Boat)



CANBERRA - The federal government has threatened to withhold $400 million in funding
from the states unless they introduce policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (Greenhouse)



CANBERRA - A map locating every public toilet in the country is being put together
to help incontinent people regain the pleasure of travel. (Continence to come)



SYDNEY - One of the men serving life for murdering Anita Cobby today appealed his convictions
for raping a 14-year-old girl four years before the 1986 slaying of the Sydney nurse.

(Murphy)



SYDNEY - People who contracted Hepatitis A in 1997 after eating contaminated oysters
have demanded the New South Wales government uphold a court ruling and pay them $10 million
compensation for pain and suffering. (Hepatitis)



SYDNEY - The New South Wales Government is applying for the extradition of a man who
skipped the country before facing manslaughter charges, Police Minister Paul Whelan said
today. (Mekhael)



SYDNEY - There has been a five-fold increase in court appearances for knife offences
in New South Wales, the latest court statistics show. (Knives)



SYDNEY - Police and defence force personnel have begun security searches at all major
Olympic venues with a view to locking down each site by the end of the month. (Oly Security.

N/L to come)



BRISBANE - A surf life saving captain was given bail today after successfully appealing
a nine-year jail term for the manslaughter of 16-year-old north Queensland schoolgirl
Rachel Antonio. (Hytch)



BRISBANE - Safety inspections of Queensland backpacker hostels following the Childers
tragedy have found evidence of overcrowding and blocked escape exits. (Hostel inspect)



CAIRNS - Japanese tour operators in north Queensland have stopped selling helicopter
joy flights following two accidents in two years involving Japanese passengers. (CHOPPERS
to come)



BRISBANE - An agitated prize bull which escaped from Brisbane's showgrounds into a
nearby street was finally pacified by a herd of fibreglass cattle. (Bull)



MELBOURNE - Victorian Premier Steve Bracks today denied he had replaced state governor
Sir James Gobbo because of his political links. (Governor)



MELBOURNE - Victorian Premier Steve Bracks today called on the state's nurses union
to submit to arbitration in a bid to end work bans threatening to close 2,000 beds in
public hospitals. (Nurses Vic. See also Health Vic. N/L to come.)



MELBOURNE - Two youths vandalised the Puffing Billy tourist train early this morning
just hours before it was due to carry the Olympic Torch west of Melbourne, police said.

(Puffing Billy)



MELBOURNE - More than 80 mayors and chief executive officers from regional and rural
Victoria today began a two-day summit to develop strategies to boost their local economies
and employment. (Councils)



MELBOURNE - More than 500 workers walked off the job at two Melbourne building sites
today in support of their peers at the National Gallery of Victoria reconstruction site.

(Gallery)



ADELAIDE - Bridgestone Australia is expected to join a recall ordered in the United
States of about 6.5 million Firestone tyres linked to more than 40 road deaths. (Motor
Tyres Daylead )



ADELAIDE - Most South Australians believe the state will achieve its social and economic
goals, a survey has found. (Business SA)



PERTH - Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid's apparent handing of the reins to vice
president Megawati Sukarnoputri was "entirely a matter for Indonesia", Foreign Minister
Alexander Downer said today. (Indon Megawati Downer)



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