HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, Aug 162011

AAP General News (Australia)
08-16-2011
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, Aug 162011

CANBERRA - The Senate will investigate an allegation an unknown person threatened a
witness who was to give evidence before a parliamentary committee. (Witness) More on merit.

CANBERRA - Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says voters are entitled to be angry
about the Labor government, but has urged colleagues to ensure the country is not reduced
to "warring camps". (Coalition)

CANBERRA - The federal coalition formally has backed plain packaging for cigarettes,
but plans to oppose changes to trade marking. (Tobacco)

CANBERRA - More than 10 million Australians are now covered by private hospital insurance,
the highest rate in a decade. (Insurance)

CANBERRA - Federal independent MP Bob Katter has told a rally at Parliament House same
sex marriage should not be taken seriously and deserves to be ridiculed. (Gay)

CANBERRA - A federal Nationals MP has taken aim at the RSPCA over its handling of the
cattle debate, accusing it of losing respect and becoming fringe animal activist group.

(Cattle)

SYDNEY - There is no place for drugs in the NSW police force, NSW Police Commissioner
Andrew Scipione says after three police were suspended after allegedly returning a positive
drug test. (Officers Update) More on merit

SYDNEY - A man has been charged with murder after a youth was shot in the face in Sydney's
south. (Face)

SYDNEY - Sentence hearing or sentence of man found guilty of having sexual intercourse
with three-year-old stepdaugther, after the rejection of his sugestion that the injuries
were caused by her falling of a lawn mower. (MOWER, to come)

SYDNEY - A five-year-old girl has been threatened at gunpoint in a home invasion in
western Sydney. (Invasion)

SYDNEY - An apple a day? Aussie orange growers would rather you didn't. (Oranges)

SYDNEY - Tens of thousands of NSW motorists have forked out more than $13 million in
fines for using mobile phones while driving over the past 12 months. (Mobiles)

MELBOURNE - Tiger Airways, back in the air after a six-week grounding, will resume
it Melbourne-Brisbane route on Thursday. (Tiger)

MELBOURNE - A man who king-hit a Canadian citizen outside a Melbourne pub during an
alcohol-fuelled attack has been jailed for 10 years for manslaughter. (Polutele) Wrap
to come

MELBOURNE - A motorist has survived crashing his car on a Melbourne freeway only to
be knocked down and killed trying to cross the lanes to safety. (Toll Vic Update)

MELBOURNE - A Melbourne man took the drug, ice, for the first time then bashed a friend
to death with a hammer, a jury has heard. (Downey) Wrap to come

MELBOURNE - Victoria's politicians will get the same pay rises that the Baillieu government
has given to other public servants - a 2.5 per cent increase. (Wages Vic)

MELBOURNE - When heart attack survivor Gerhard Liedtke's legs started giving him trouble
last year, the problem was found to be a severe narrowing of the artery in his left leg.

(CARDIOVASCULAR) to come.

MELBOURNE - The Pearcedale community has come to the aid of its Country Fire Authority
(CFA) volunteers, who had their cars plundered while helping at the scene of a fatal car
crash (STATION).

BRISBANE - Brisbane City Council is on track to deliver about 90 per cent of all relevant
Floods Inquiry recommendations by the end of 2011, the Lord Mayor says. (Floods Inquiry
BCC)

BRISBANE - An international student has been found dead on campus at a southeast Queensland
university. (Student)

BRISBANE - The Queensland opposition says the government needs to rule out using a
mothballed jail west of Brisbane for immigration detention, and says a tender process
for another facility lacks transparency. (Borallon)

BRISBANE - Queensland's highest court will reconsider whether it correctly increased
the sentence of a man who brutally killed an elderly woman then raped her corpse. (Perini)

PERTH - Howard government minister Peter Reith has slammed West Australian Premier
Colin Barnett for his inaction on industrial relations and allowing an "open-door policy"

for unions. (Industrial WA)

PERTH - West Australian Housing Minister Troy Buswell is confident a new low-deposit
home loan won't put the state on the same path as subprime mortgages in the US. (Loans)

ADELAIDE - Milk is running low and there has been some panic buying of other foods
but Kangaroo Island residents are taking three days of relative isolation in their stride,
Mayor Jayne Bates says. (Island )

ADELAIDE - An Adelaide man knocked out his wife and lit a fire to kill her so he could
have sole custody of their child, a court has been told. (Kageregere to come)

ADELAIDE - Traditional owners have split over the South Australian government's plan
to ban mining in the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary. (Arkaroola to come)

ADELAIDE - SA Industry minister Tom Koutsantonis will meet OneSteel officials on Thursday
but is confident of its future in Whyalla. (OneSteel SA to come)

ADELAIDE - Lawyers for the Adelaide woman accused of killing and dismembering a pensioner
have accused her former lover of being responsible for the death. (Gavare to come)

ADELAIDE - A jury has retired to consider their verdict in the trial of Fabian Francis
on assault charges. (Francis to come)

SYDNEY - A young man accused of murdering another teenager who police say was shot
in the face has been formally refused bail in a Sydney court. (Abbas)

MEDICAL

SYDNEY - State governments are being urged to increase subsidies for patients undergoing
kidney dialysis at home as many struggle with spiralling electricity bills. (Kidney)

SYDNEY - Coach potatoes take note. Sitting in front of the TV for hours on end could
shave years off your life. (TV)

ADELAIDE - Research at the University of Adelaide has for the first time shown a direct
link between obesity and electrical abnormalities of the heart. (Heart)

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