HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 15:30, Aug2 =2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-02-2000
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 15:30, Aug2 =2



CANBERRA - Private hospital cover was a poor investment for most people under 30, the
Australian Consumers' Association (ACA) warned today. (Insurance ACA)



CANBERRA - Investment in startup companies grew a dramatic 148 per cent to $236 million
last year, a new federal government report showed today. (Venture)



CANBERRA - Communications Minister Richard Alston believes phone companies will lift
their game if they must compensate customers for failing to meet service guarantees. (Phone
Alston)



CANBERRA - The brief detention of a Fiji union leader by Speight supporters would stiffen
the resolve of thoise working for democracy, ACTU president Sharan Burrow said today.

(Fiji Unions to come. See also Fiji Brother)



CANBERRA - A murdered Saudi Arabian diplomat threatened to kill his former girlfriend
if she did not return to him, saying police could not touch him, the ACT Supreme Court
heard today. (Diplomat. N/L to come.)



LONDON - Australian feminist author Germaine Greer lost a pair of STG10,000 ($A25,000)
diamond earrings in a burglary at her British home, it emerged today. (UK Greer)



MELBOURNE - A millionaire wife killer was today removed from a court when he hurled
abuse at a judge at a hearing in which he is fighting payment of compensation to his children.

(Parsons. N/L to come.)



MELBOURNE - Up to 45 per cent of boys and just over 27 per cent of girls dropped out
of school early in some parts of Victoria, according to a report released today. (Dropouts)



MELBOURNE - Thousands of workers from white goods giant Email will strike tomorrow
in the first official blow of the metal unions' campaign for an industry-wide agreement.

(Email to come)



MELBOURNE - Thousands of Victorian small business owners have been angered by increases
of up to 85 per cent in their Workcover bills, with some threatening to leave town. (Workcover)



SYDNEY - Early morning drug raids by 200 armed police in Sydney today also netted two
suspects in the 1998 stabbing murder of a teenager. (Raids. N/L to come.)



SYDNEY - The cost of buying a new car had dropped since the introduction of the GST,
a study has found. (Tax Car)



SYDNEY - A Sydney psychiatrist who has been convicted of shooting a man was today struck
off the New South Wales Medical Register. (Motum. N/L to come.)



SYDNEY - Workers at BHP's steelworks in Port Kembla were evacuated today after a chemical
spill started a fire in a coking oven. (Chemical. More to come)



BRISBANE - An officer's copper water jug has become an unofficial memorial for 84 Australian
sailors killed when HMAS Canberra was hit by shellfire during World War II. (Jug )



BRISBANE - Women who have had twins may think they have double trouble but they also
have a lower risk of contracting ovarian cancer than other mothers, researchers have found.

(Ovarian )



BRISBANE - A year after One Nation was deregistered as a political party in Queensland,
legal action was continuing to retrieve $500,000 in election funding from Pauline Hanson,
a budget estimates committee was told today. (Nation Qld)



BRISBANE - Helicopters will today conduct a fly-past in honour of pilot Paul (Paddy)
O'Brien who was among five victims killed in last week's helicopter crash in central Queensland.

(Helicopter Funerals)



BRISBANE - Queensland was still vulnerable to infiltration by the Ku Klux Klan, after
government promises of tougher racial vilification laws failed to materialise, the state
opposition said today. (Vilification to come).



PERTH - Two men have appeared in a Perth court charged with attempting to extort $30,000
from international art critic Robert Hughes. (Hughes)



PERTH - The Labor Party was less concerned with Western Australia's mandatory sentencing
laws than it was with those operating in the Northern Territory, federal leader Kim Beazley
said today. (Mandatory Beazley)



ADELAIDE - There's been no stampede from buyers but vehicle sales are on the rise and
car prices have fallen since the introduction of the GST. (Motor Sales )



ADELAIDE - The first of 400 African athletes arrive in Adelaide today to begin final
preparations for the Sydney Olympics. (Oly Africans )



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