HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, April 21 = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-21-2009
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, April 21 = 2

AUCKLAND - Fiji's military junta has started destroying court documents and rewriting
the country's law books amid fresh calls from the United Nations for a return to democracy.

(Fiji Wrap)



SYDNEY - Hepatitis C need not be a life sentence, an expert says, as a major Australian-led
study shows how early intervention can in most cases lead to cure. (Hepatitis. Eds: Embargoed
until 0001 AEST Wednesday)



SYDNEY - Eddie McGuire's new game show has made a solid debut but failed to knock off
rival Deal or No Deal. (Ratings Seat)



SYDNEY - Twilight's vampire love story already gets fans hot and bothered. (Twilight)



WELLINGTON - A throat infection has forced Australian band Sneaky Sound System to cancel
its Dunedin show and postpone other New Zealand shows in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch
to May. (NZ Sneaky)



SYDNEY - Foxtel boss Kim Williams says the pay TV provider will innovate more in the
next 12 months than ever before as it makes content available on the web. (Foxtel. Pix
available)



SYDNEY - Jerry Springer is synonymous with trash TV, now he's the star of his own opera.

(Springer. Pix available)



MELBOURNE - Abolishing Work Choices will not worsen the employment prospects of young
Australians, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says. (OECD Gillard)

CANBERRA - A Turnbull government would not make major changes to Kevin Rudd's new workplace
relations system because businesses are suffering from reform fatigue, a coalition frontbencher
says. (Workplace Keenan)



CANBERRA - The Rudd government is backing away from its promised $10 billion health
infrastructure fund, amid confirmation from the central bank that Australia is in recession.

(Budget09 Health)



CANBERRA - The West Australian government shouldn't extend an income management program
designed to crack down on child abuse until the trial scheme is complete, the Greens say.

(Welfare Greens)



CANBERRA - Graduates originally headed for careers in law, engineering or accountancy
will instead pick up pieces of chalk and march into Victorian classrooms next year, says
federal Education Minister Julia Gillard. (Education)



CANBERRA - A former Queensland cricketer accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy
during a private coaching session took the youth shopping afterwards, a court has been
told. (King Wrap)



SYDNEY - NSW Treasurer Eric Roozendaal has sent a strong message to the banks to work
together with business to help pull the state out of recession. (Economy NSW Wrap)



SYDNEY - A truckie has died after crashing his rig over an 80 metre cliff beside a
Sydney freeway as he swerved to miss a second truck in hammering rain. (Toll NSW Wrap.

Pix Available)



SYDNEY - A TransGrid officer who deposited $43,000 cash into his bank accounts allegedly
provided information about rival bids to a company seeking a fencing contract, a NSW corruption
hearing has been told. (ICAC TransGrid Wrap)



SYDNEY - A Sydney school teacher has denied knowledge of an unsupervised summertime
bushwalk that left one of his students dead. (Iredale Wrap )



SYDNEY - A jeweller accused of murdering his much older lover hysterically screamed
"Mario is not dead, Mario is not dead" while being held by police, a jury has been told.

(Leung)



MELBOURNE - Melburnians could be slugged with massive increases in their water bills
under recommendations released by the state's economic regulator. (Water Vic Wrap. With
factbox)



MELBOURNE - Ten weeks after the devastating Black Saturday bushfires the Victorian
government has been slammed for not meeting burnoff targets. (Bushfires Vic Wrap)



BRISBANE - Queensland's new parliament has been warned of tough times ahead due to
the global financial crisis. (Parly Qld Wrap (pix available))



BRISBANE - The Queensland opposition says allowing the state's corruption watchdog
to oversee goverment-owned corporations (GOCs) is crucial if Premier Anna Bligh's promise
of greater accountability is to be believed. (CMC)



BRISBANE - A driver who had a cocktail of drugs in his system when he crashed his car,
killing his elderly father, has failed to have his sentence reduced. (Hallett)



CAIRNS - A lawyer for an Australian pilot convicted of committing child sex offences
overseas claims his client is innocent and the victim of a conspiracy. (Martens)



BRISBANE - A drunken prank in which branches from Queensland's historic Tree of Knowledge
were stolen has landed two people with community service. (Tree)



BRISBANE - Another witness in the Lacey brothers' murder trial has admitted lying under
oath, saying it's the only way he could get revenge. (Lacey)



HOBART - Timber giant Gunns Ltd expects to have signed up a joint venture partner to
help fund construction of its controversial Tasmanian pulp mill by the end of June. (Pulp)

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