Highlights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Tues, Aug 30=2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-30-2005
Highlights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Tues, Aug 30=2

DENPASAR - Lawyers for Australian model Michelle Leslie have apologised to Australia's
Islamic community for any offence caused by her decision to adopt Muslim dress. (Indon
Model Nightlead. 2nd Nightlead to come.)

CANBERRA - The number of farms in Australia has fallen by 20,000 in a decade, new figures
show. (Farms, to come.)

CANBERRA - The federal government will today resume arguing before the High Court that
Canberra's industrial relations advertising campaign is a legitimate part of the political
process. (Workplace Daylead. Nightlead to come.)

CANBERRA - A conservative think tank has called for the up-front services fee now paid
by all university students to be rolled into an overall charge for academic and non-academic
services.(VSU CIS, to come under embargo.)

SYDNEY - NSW opposition transport spokesman Peter Debnam will run for the state Liberal
leadership, vacated by disgraced politician John Brogden. (Brogden Daylead. Nightlead
to come.)
SYDNEY - NSW opposition legal affairs spokesman Andrew Tink has ruled out joining the
contest to replace disgraced former state opposition leader John Brogden. (Brogden Tink)
CANBERRA - Former NSW opposition leader John Brogden will be living through the darkest
day of his political life today, former Victorian Liberal premier Jeff Kennett says. (Brogden
Kennett)

SYDNEY - A man was stabbed in the chest with an ice pick during a carjacking in Sydney's
south-west overnight. (Pick. Seeking more.)

SYDNEY - A man has been sentenced to a maximum of 22 years in prison for murdering a friend
he believed was flirting with his girlfriend. (Keira)

SYDNEY - Customs officers have thwarted an attempt to smuggle 6.5 tonnes of tobacco from
Indonesia to Sydney in what's believed to be one of the biggest shipments of its kind
ever seized in Australia. (Smuggle)

SYDNEY - About 500 Sydney Water maintenance workers have gone on strike for 48 hours over
changes to their rosters. (SydneyWater Lead. Nightlead to come.)

SYDNEY - The needs of young disabled people have been severely hindered by the NSW government's
reforms to post-school disability programs, a parliamentary committee has found. (Disability,
to come.)

SYDNEY - Two more Sydney businesses have been targeted by ram raiders trying to steal
ATMs. (ATM Lead)

BRISBANE - More visiting medical officers (VMOs) have resigned from Queensland's ailing
public hospital system as the government pushes an 11th hour pay proposal. (VMOs Daylead.

Nightlead to come.)

BRISBANE - A national terrorism emergency plan swung into action after a pilot accidentally
used the code word for hijack, aviation officials say. (Plane)

BRISBANE - Queensland water consumers will be slugged an extra $30 million annually as
part of a state government push to limit water demand. (Water Qld)

BRISBANE - Researchers surveying migrating Humpback whales have found a number of different
species of the great mammals rarely seen off Australia's eastern coast. (Whales)

BRISBANE - Australian researchers are developing a computer model they hope will take
the controversy out of shaken baby syndrome cases. (Shaken, with pic.)

BRISBANE - Three Brisbane men have been jailed over a "vicious and brutal" attack on four
pub employees, which left one of the victims with a shattered eye socket and titanium
plates in his face. (Pub)

BRISBANE - Queensland motorists are tipped to fork out more than $1.30 a litre at the
bowser as crude oil prices skyrocket. (Petrol Qld. Nightlead to come.)

MELBOURNE - Police are investigating the theft of sensitive tapes to see if any offence
has been committed by a television station that aired one of them, Victoria's top detective
says. (Files Lead. Files Nightlead to come.)

MELBOURNE - A witness in the trial of a bouncer charged with the manslaughter of former
Test cricketer David Hookes said today Hookes fell "like a plank" after he was punched
outside a Melbourne pub. (Micevic Daylead. Nightlead to come.)

MELBOURNE - State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers have answered more than 150 calls
for help in the past 24 hours as high winds swept across Victoria. (Wind Daylead. Update
to come.)

MELBOURNE - A British businessman will face charges of double murder in Singapore after
losing the latest round in a three-year fight against his extradition from Australia.

(McCrea)

MELBOURNE - Prime Minister John Howard must bear direct responsibility if two senior political
journalists are jailed for refusing to reveal a source, Labor said today. (Kelly Source
Labor)

MELBOURNE - An Aboriginal painting bought for less than $5,000 in 1986 could sell for
more than $1 million when it comes under the hammer for the first time in Melbourne tonight.

(Art. Nightlead to come.)

ADELAIDE - Administrators for troubled automotive component maker Ion say 200 jobs will
be cut from the company's Adelaide foundry at North Plympton. (Ion. Nightlead to come.)

ADELAIDE - The Australian Education Union (AEU) has welcomed the South Australian government's
$670 million offer to end a long-running pay dispute with state teachers. (Teachers SA
Daylead)

ADELAIDE - Unions have called for greater scrutiny of safety standards aboard a floating
abalone farm at Port Lincoln after a crew member was injured. (Destiny)

ADELAIDE - South Australia's Coopers Brewery has started exporting its beers to Finland. (Coopers)

PERTH - A Perth man who went missing for 40 days before being found 180 kilometres from
home should pay some of the cost of the massive search for him, the West Australian opposition
says. (Brodie)

PERTH - Petrol prices were set to reach another all-time high across Perth today. (Petrol
WA, to come.)

DARWIN - A post-mortem examination will be carried out today on a 32-year-old man who
died after sniffing petrol at an Aboriginal community at the base of Uluru. (Sniffing)

AUCKLAND - Australia's attempts to help Tonga resolve its crippling public servants strike
have been rebuffed by the workers' representatives. (Tonga Aust)

JAKARTA - Indonesia's president warned today that terrorists could launch an attack in
the mostly Muslim nation in the next two months, and ordered security forces to step up
surveillance. (Terror Indon Daylead)

LONDON - Australian universities are offering financial incentives to try to lure British
students who have failed to gain a place in universities at home. (UK Aust Uni)

COPENHAGEN - The Danish government today said it would propose changing Denmark's royal
succession law to ensure that the Crown Prince and Princess' first child, expected in
October, can ascend the throne regardless of whether it is a boy or a girl. (Denmark Royals)

NEW YORK - A judge has ordered the US Department of Defence to ask detainees of the Guantanamo
Bay naval base in Cuba whether they want their names to be made public. (Guantanamo Lawsuit)

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