HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, April 7=2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-07-2008
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, April 7=2

JAKARTA - East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta has taken aim at Indonesian military
officers involved in the violence surrounding East Timor's historic 1999 vote for independence.

(Timor Horta)

JAKARTA - An Australian fisherman facing up to a decade in a Bali jail for heroin possession
feels "great pain" when not using the drug, a court has been told. (Indon Maxwell Nightlead)

SYDNEY - Generation Y is the focus of an Australian news website launched today. (Vine)

SYDNEY - The reincarnation of Gladiators is continuing to win over audiences with viewers
making it the most watched program in the nation last night. (Ratings)

CANBERRA - Youth homelessness has doubled in the past 20 years and it will take at
least $300 million to fix the problem, a national inquiry has revealed. (Homeless - embargoed
until 0600 AEST Tuesday)

CANBERRA - The federal and Tasmanian governments will join major car companies in rescuing
a parts manufacturer whose financial troubles have threatened to shut down the industry.

(ACL)

CANBERRA - A major review of the banking code of practice has been kept so quiet few
Australians have had a chance to complain about "outrageous" mortgage exit fees and bank
penalty fees, Family First says. (Banks)

CANBERRA - A team of Australian researchers has discovered that the Milky Way galaxy
has been eating its neighbours. (Milky Way (pix available))

SYDNEY - A cold case study of old evidence has raised new doubts about the conviction
of former councillor Phuong Ngo for the political assassination of NSW MP John Newman
14 years ago. (Ngo Nightlead)

SYDNEY - Figures showing Australia has strayed from its recycling targets have infuriated
environment groups and caused headaches for the federal government, which is planning
a national recycling strategy. (Recycling)

SYDNEY - NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca says he can "absolutely guarantee"

he will not launch a leadership challenge against Premier Morris Iemma. (DellaBosca)

SYDNEY - A $30,000 reward has been posted for information leading to the conviction
of truck drivers accused of sexually abusing Aboriginal children in remote NSW towns.

(Reward)

SYDNEY - Plans to force parents to attend counselling if their children are caught
drinking are about education, not punishment, NSW Police Minister David Campbell says.

(Drunk Nightlead)

SYDNEY - A fisherman has been swept off rocks to his death near a Sydney beach, police
say. (Fisherman)

MELBOURNE - A top Victorian hospital and the state government are examining allegations
of improper surgical and billing practices by a leading surgeon. (Surgeon Nightlead)

MELBOURNE - A drug trafficker who was "under the spell" of crime lord Tony Mokbel has
been sentenced to 10 years' jail. (Mansour Nightlead)

MELBOURNE - An Australian Muslim leader has joined Aboriginal figures and other male
leaders to tell men there is no cultural excuse for domestic violence. (Violence Nightlead)

MELBOURNE - Teachers who work at "demoralised" Victorian schools will earn more money,
and principals will have more scope to get rid of bored teachers, under changes being
considered by the state government. (Schools Vic)

MELBOURNE - Lawyers defending three protesters involved in the violent G20 riots in
Melbourne in 2006 have asked a magistrate not to convict them. (G20)

BRISBANE - Sex offender Trevor Toms has been arrested for breaching the conditions
of a supervision order, Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) says. (Toms)

BRISBANE - Queensland police have launched an investigation after an officer lost his
Taser stun gun in the line of duty. (Taser Nightlead)

BRISBANE - Australia has had more than its fair share of natural disasters of late
- and researchers want to find out how people cope. (Disasters)

BRISBANE - The use of an RAAF aircraft to fly a morbidly obese and critically ill woman
to hospital highlights the pressures the obesity epidemic puts on medical services, the
Australian Medical Association (AMA) says. (Obese)

GOLD COAST - A teenage girl accused of leading "a pack of animals" in an attack on
an off-duty police officer and his girlfriend has pleaded guilty in a Gold Coast court.

(Trindall Nightlead)

BRISBANE - The Queensland opposition has asked the state ombudsman to investigate the
government's handling of the Torres Strait nursing scandal. (Nurses)

ADELAIDE - Australian governments are being overwhelmed by the scourge of child sex
abuse, but Australians tend to see petrol prices as a bigger concern, a conference has
been told. (Mullighan)

ADELAIDE - A coroner has identified 49 errors by police in the case of an Adelaide
man who was murdered two days after being shot at by the same attacker. (Findings)

PERTH - The pace of development in the Pilbara region, where Aboriginal tools at least
35,000 years old were found at a proposed mine site, could lead to further significant
archaeological finds. (Tools Nightlead (pix available))

PERTH - A judge has released a teenager convicted over a fatal assault, despite declaring
him a danger to the community. (Barr)

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DARWIN - The number of children and drunks roaming the streets of Alice Springs at
night is concerning police, who took 190 intoxicated people into custody over three days
last week. (Alice)

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