HighLights of the AAP National Wire = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2011
HighLights of the AAP National Wire = 2

AUCKLAND - All of those charged over the horror sinking of the Tongan ferry Princess
Ashika have been found guilty in the kingdom's biggest ever criminal trial. (Tonga Boat)

MELBOURNE - Pre-sentence hearing for Arthur Freeman who murdered his four-year-old
daughter by throwing her off the West Gate Bridge (Freeman to come with pix)

MELBOURNE - Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has denied that his welfare reform proposals
are recycled old measures. (Welfare)

CANBERRA - The UN's assistant higher commissioner for refugees says a regional approach
to processing asylum seekers could result in fewer people travelling to Australia by boat.

(Bali)

PERTH - People who share bongs to smoke marijuana may be at risk of contracting pulmonary
tuberculosis, Australian medical researchers say. (Bongs)

SYDNEY - It's been 20 years since the secrecy surrounding adoption has been lifted
and many long lost family members have been brought together in NSW. (Adoption)

SYDNEY - Two women who were forced to have sex to lift supposed black magic curses
have broken down while telling a judge of the ensuing horrific consequences on their lives.

(Golossian)

Golossian Wrap to come.

SYDNEY - A young vision-impaired woman has lost much of her remaining sight as well
as her independence after what police have described as a robbery gone wrong. (McCulloch)

McCulloch Wrap to come with pix.

SYDNEY - Teenager Trudie Adams, who disappeared 33 years ago from Sydney's northern
beaches, most likely fell victim to foul play, a coroner has said. (Adams)

Adamas Wrap to come.

SYDNEY - A missing toddler has been found safe and well on the NSW mid-north coast.

(Search Update)

Search Wrap to come on merit.

SYDNEY - The husband of former NSW education minister Verity Firth has been placed
on a 12-month good behaviour bond after pleading guilty to possessing one tablet of ecstasy.

(Chesher)

Chesher Wrap to come.

SYDNEY - Police will investigate if the shooting of a man in Sydney's southwest is
bikie or gang related. (Shot 2nd Update)

Shot Wrap to come.

SYDNEY - A 20-year-old man has been seriously injured after a pitbull dog latched on
to his groin in southwest Sydney. (Pitbull) More on merit.

MELBOURNE - A Victorian who claimed he was sleepwalking when he raped a sleeping woman
could be free from jail by Christmas after a judge "reluctantly" reimposed a previous
sentence given to him. (Coulson)

MELBOURNE - A former nurse who murdered a Filipina cleaner whose remains were found
wrapped in garbage bags in the front yard of a vacant house has been jailed for 17-and-a-half-years.

(Guingab)

MELBOURNE - Victorian motorists have been urged to take more care on roads after a
jump in fatalities last month. (Fatalities)

MELBOURNE - Encouraging people to live in regional centres and parts of metropolitan
Melbourne would help prevent the city's population explosion creating urban sprawl, the
Victorian government says. (Population Vic)

MELBOURNE - The first of the victims' funerals from a week of fatal car accidents has
been held for a 22-year-old man. (Funeral to come with pix)

MELBOURNE - A flagged $2.5 billion reduction in Victoria's GST funding means about
$700 million will have to be scrapped from the health budget, Health Minister David Davis
says. (Tax Vic Health with video to come)

BRISBANE - Queenslanders have a clear choice of the leader they want, but Liberal
National Party MPs will decide who'll be their deputy leader if they win office, opposition
treasury spokesman Tim Nicholls says. (LNP Update pix and video)

BRISBANE - A disaster has been declared in the north Queensland township of Hideaway
Bay which has been partially smothered by massive mudslides over the last few days. (Storms
Qld)

BRISBANE - A farmer who cut the ears off two calves with a butcher's knife will learn
whether has been found guilty of animal cruelty charges on Friday afternoon (FrANCIS -
to come)

BRISBANE - Queensland Education Minister Cameron Dick says daily weapons searches on
students would "Americanise" the state school system. (Stabbing)

PERTH - Three men have been held up at gunpoint and forced to lie on the ground in
a Perth carpark, while their car was searched and items stolen. (Carpark)

ADELAIDE - South Australia's Public Service Association (PSA) has confirmed plans to
take its fight against cuts to public sector jobs and conditions to the High Court. (BudgetSA)

BudgetSA Wrap to come.

ADELAIDE - A man who tried to pass off his wife's stab wounds as suicide has been jailed
for almost a quarter of a century for her murder. (Cocks)


ENTERTAINMENT

AUCKLAND - One half of New Zealand's hit television comedy duo could soon be gracing
the big scene as a character in The Hobbit. (NZ Hobbit)

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