FED:National Newslist for Thursday, Dec 8

AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-2011
FED:National Newslist for Thursday, Dec 8
AAP's National Newslist for Thursday (not for publication). This is a guide only and coverage
plans are subject to change. AAP's News Editors can be contacted on 02 93228611/8610.

TOP STORIES
JOBS - Labor force figures to be released. 1130 aedt. Chris Evans presser likely to follow.

DENTAL - Greens push for universal denticare plan following report dental care is costing
the national economy more than $1.3 billion in lost employment; Govt holds back on report
recommending dramatic expansion in access to dental services.

ELEPHANT - 25yo Australian woman has been killed by a pygmy elephant on Borneo island
in Malaysia; mother says her daughter was a very gifted child.

RATES - Pressure continues on major banks to pass on RBA's latest cut in the official
cash rate; Oppn says treasurer should be holding the banks accountable.

COURTS
SYDNEY
- Mark Standen, ex-cop drug offences, sentence, Supreme Court.

- Inquest findings into death of Paul Ahsin, died after being restrained by security staff
outside a Campbelltown pub, Glebe Coroners Court.

MELBOURNE
- Sentence for gangland boss Carl Williams' murderer Matthew Johnson, Supreme Court.

- Sentence for a woman who helped drug kingpin Tony Mokbel flee Australia, Supreme Court.

- Application for leave to appeal by triple murderer John Leslie Coombes who in his most
recent killing strangled childcare worker Raechel Betts and dismembered her in a bathtub,
Court of Appeal.

PERTH
- Kevin Spratt, the man repeatedly tasered by police, to appear in Perth Magistrates Court
on unrelated charge of threatening to set alight an off-duty police officer.

ADELAIDE
- Luka Kageregere, who convicted of murder by setting a house fire which killed his wife,
to be sentenced.

OTHER NEWS
CANBERRA
- Govt releases higher education base funding review final report 1030.

- Australia fast tracks help to assist African countries adapt to climate change; Greens
accuse govt of trying renegotiate land use provisions of Kyoto Protocol; Combet addresses
Durban talks.

- ACT government introduces draft laws that will allow same-sex couples to have their
civil union formalised by a ceremony.

- Govt will not be drawn on whether a review of Fair Work Act could lead to the return
of compulsory arbitration.

- Joe Hockey speech to the Heritage Foundation in Washington.

- Media preview of Renaissance exhibition at national gallery.

- An outbreak of salmonella in Canberra has affected at least 13 people, with five of
them hospitalised.

SYDNEY
- Manhunt continues in northern NSW for state's most wanted man Malcolm Naden after policeman
shot; Scipione says he's confident police will hunt him down.

- NSW parliamentary inquiry into coal seam gas, public hearings.

- Friends of the Earth claim CSG exploration near Narrabri is discharging polluted water
into a creek system which is part of the Murray-Darling Basin.

- NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell to officially open a $300 million landfill and construction
waste facility.

- Trams could run through Sydney's CBD, under a proposal by the state government.

- Body of a boy who went missing last month has been found in the Murrumbidgee River near
Wagga Wagga. - Body of missing 16yo Kenyan boy found on far north coast beach.

- Pizza delivery man stabbed in Sydney.

- Australian Employee Association annual general meeting.

MELBOURNE
- Vic govt to release report on flooding that hit the state last summer.

- Vic parlt sits: legislation for an independent police corruption watchdog expected to
be introduced

BRISBANE
- Outwatching flood situation. Flash flooding has inundated several businesses in Roma.

- Bligh in Cairns. 1200 aest.

- Researchers, scientists and experts attend Hendra virus congress in Brisbane.

- Local Government Association of Queensland releases 10-point policy plan for upcoming
state election. - Brisbane's XXXX brewery workers hold stop work meeting over management
demands that future bonuses will depend on good behaviour.

- Construction company fined for knowingly releasing toxins into a World Heritage area in north Qld.

- Man facing arson, extortion charges after standoff with police in central Qld.

- Four teenage boys charged with bashing, robbing Gold Coast bus driver.

ADELAIDE
- Outwatching rumours a Labor MP will resign.

- Opposition to announced cabinet reshuffle.

PERTH
- No items listed.

HOBART
- No items listed.

DARWIN
- Checking story re: a strain of Vietnamese rice has been grown successfully in the NT.

MEDICAL
- Catholic church facing calls to allow nuns to take the contraceptive pill to protect
them from cancer.

- CSL supplying blood products to a major US clinical trial investigating treatments for
a virus that causes severe problems in unborn babies.

- The number of Australians developing cancer is on the rise - but more people are beating
the life-threatening disease.

INTERNATIONAL
PORT MORESBY - Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill is filing a last ditch application
to have the chief of the Supreme court dismissed, less than 48 hours before he was to
hand down a decision on the constitutionality of the government.

ENTERTAINMENT
SYDNEY - Hugh Jackman's one-man show, Back on Broadway, is leading the fundraising initiatives
for the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fund drive

FINANCE
ECONOMY
Sydney - ABS labour force data for November
Sydney - RBA governor Glenn Stevens to deliver the Inaugural Warren Hogan Memorial Lecture

EQUITIES
Sydney - Boeing Australia & South Pacific President Ian Thomas to address an Australia-Israel
Chamber of Commerce Young Business Forum
Brisbane - Bank of Queensland Ltd annual general meeting
Brisbane - Iconic Australian clothing retailer Fletcher Jones has been placed in administration
after 93 years. Media briefing with Chartered Accounting firm Cor Cordis who been appointed
voluntary administrators. 1115 AEDT.

Also: Aust Stocks, Aust Dollar, Stockwatch, Finance Briefs and Finance Week to come.

SPORT
CRICKET
HOBART - Captains' media conferences and preview second Test Australia v New Zealand starting
on Friday.

MELBOURNE - Conclusion of Cricket Australia board meeting, including tabling of governance review.

PERTH - Sheffield Shield: WA v SA, WACA, day 4.

CANBERRA - Sheffield Shield: NSW v Tas, Manuka Oval, day 3.

MELBOURNE - Media conference with Melbourne Renegades players Andrew McDonald, Aaron Finch
and Ryan Carters, 1415 Visy Park.

MELBOURNE - Shane Warne bowling session and Melbourne Stars announcement 1045 MCG.

SOCCER
BRISBANE - Preview Brisbane Roar v Melbourne Heart.

SYDNEY - A-League preview panel.

HOCKEY
AUCKLAND - Men's Champions Trophy: Australia v Netherlands, 1400AEDT.

TENNIS
MELBOURNE - Day three of the Australian Open wildcard playoff.

RUGBY UNION
MELBOURNE - Melbourne Rebels players Stirling Mortlock, Ged Robinson and Mark Gerrard
attend Melbourne Renegades BBL training, 1415 Visy Park.

BASKETBALL
AUCKLAND - NZ Breakers v Gold Coast, 1730AEDT
SYDNEY - Sydney Kings v Adelaide 36ers, SEC, 1930

RACING
BRISBANE - Preview of Saturday's Doomben meeting featuring the Group Three George Moore Stakes.

SYDNEY - Preview of Saturday's Christmas Cup meeting at Rosehill.

MELBOURNE - Preview of Saturday's Flemington meeting.

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