HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Aug 31

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HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Aug 31

CANBERRA - Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson today warned coalition MPs opposed tothe full sale of Telstra to fall into line. (Telstra Anderson, TELSTRA NIGHTLEAD to come)

BRISBANE - Queensland Premier Peter Beattie today called for a national review intohealth funding as he reluctantly signed a deal with the federal government. (COAG HealthQld Nightlead)

PERTH - Health services in Western Australia would be reduced as a result of a newhealth agreement signed with the federal government, WA Health Minister Jim McGinty warnedtoday. (COAG Health WA)

SYDNEY - The NSW government had no choice but to agree to a $4.2 billion federal healthfunding plan, state Health Minister Morris Iemma said today. (COAG Health NSW)

MELBOURNE - The Victorian government had reluctantly signed the federal government'shealth deal claiming health services in Victoria would be reduced by $350 million. (COAGHealth Vic)

CANBERRA - State premiers showed they were not serious about health reform by cuttingFriday's Council of Australian Governments (CoAG) meeting short for a footy photo shoot,Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson said today. (COAG Health Anderson)

CANBERRA - A Labor government would set up an independent expert panel to guide healthreforms, opposition health spokeswoman Julia Gillard said today. (Health Gillard)

To come: COAG HEALTH NSW NIGHTLEAD, HEALTH NIGHTLEAD after Patterson media conferenceat 3.45pm AEST

CANBERRA - Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson today backed senior government ministerTony Abbott over his role in the downfall of Pauline Hanson. (Hanson Anderson)

CANBERRA - Labor today demanded Tony Abbott release correspondence relating to a fundused to bring down Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party. (Hanson Emerson)

CANBERRA - The prime minister's office may have received stolen One Nation membershiplists used to undermine the party. (Hanson Abbott)

BRISBANE - Keeping secret a list of donors to a fund used to bring down Pauline Hanson'sOne Nation Party breached accountability standards, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie saidtoday. (Hanson Beattie)

HANSON Nightlead to come

JAKARTA - Abu Bakar Bashir, the elderly cleric accused of leading the secretive anddeadly South-East Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiah, will face judgment before an Indonesiancourt on Tuesday for treason charges. (INDON BASHIR to come)

CANBERRA - At least half a dozen more extremist groups like Jemaah Islamiah (JI) arenow operating in Indonesia, according to Labor's Foreign Affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd.

(TERROR RUDD to come)

CANBERRA - Australia's security measures were being constantly reviewed and changedto reduce opportunities for terrorists to strike, Deputy Prime Minister John Andersonsaid today. (Security)

TERROR AUST NIGHTLEAD to come

ULVERSTONE, Tasmania - Australia has only six remaining World War I veterans afterthe weekend state funeral of Frank MacDonald. (MACDONALD to come with Factbox)

PERTH - After 161 sitting days, Western Australia's royal commission into police corruptionwill conclude public hearings tomorrow - bringing to an end one of the most uncomfortableperiods in WA police history. (Kennedy Backgrounder)

SYDNEY - Australia's economic growth was likely to have stalled in the June quarter,affected largely by a big shortfall in the international trade balance. (AAP Indicator- EMBARGOED)

NEW YORK - Ask Lleyton Hewitt if he's back and he'll say he never really went away.

(Tennis Open Aust Nightlead)

PARIS - Australia's track and field forecast for the 2004 Athens Olympics is modestafter the world championships revealed few genuine medal hopes. (Aths World Aust Nightlead,with Factbox)

PARIS - Australian captain Lee Troop has made a spirited defence of his teammates afterhead coach Keith Connor questioned the attitude of some at the world athletic championships.

(Aths World Aust Troop)

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