Highlights of the AAP National wire at 15:30 = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-1999
Highlights of the AAP National wire at 15:30 = 2


CANBERRA - Australian Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty today backed special labelling for
genetically modified food, saying it could be treated in the same way as food dyes. (GENETIC)



CANBERRA - A leading Australian diabetes researcher today said a reported breakthrough in
the search for a cure would not be available to sufferers for some years. (DIABETES to come)

CANBERRA - Federal Transport Minister John Anderson today said people should take "a cold
shower" over the Badgerys Creek airport proposal. (BADGERYS ANDERSON. See also BADGERYS THORN
to come)



CANBERRA - New federal sex slavery legislation will give authorities the power
to crack down on a trade which involved hundreds of women in Australia, Justice Minister
Amanda Vanstone said today. (PROSTITUTES)



CANBERRA - The federal and Victorian governments will jointly fund the $240 million upgrade
of the Princes Freeway between Melbourne and Geelong. (HIGHWAY ANDERSON. N/L to come.)



MELBOURNE - Two former trainee nurses were jailed today after four years of covering up
their respective roles in the death of a rock singer and the burning of his body. (DEANS)



MELBOURNE - Heroin deaths in Victoria have hit a high of 200 this year - a record toll for
the first eight months of a year. (HEROIN VIC. N/L to come.)



MELBOURNE - Walter Mikac, the man whose wife and two daughters were killed in
the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, is to remarry. (MIKAC)



MELBOURNE - The brother-in-law of Mexican banker Carlos Cabal today attempted to win bail
for himself pending an extradition hearing in the case of a missing fortune, allegedly looted
from Mexico's largest banking group. (CABAL to come)



MELBOURNE - One-time prison escapee Brendon Abbott was a "father figure" to a man convicted
of attempting to murder two plain clothes Victorian police officers, a court heard today.
(BERICHON. N/L to come.)



SYDNEY - The trial of a former A Country Practice star charged with sexually assaulting an
11-year-old girl began behind closed doors today. (PIPER. N/L to come.)



SYDNEY - Eight thousand birds infected with the deadly Newcastle disease at a
poultry farm in western Sydney have been destroyed. (NEWCASTLE. N/L to come.)



SYDNEY - Lawyers for the man accused of kidnapping and murdering Sydney mother
Kerry Whelan want to cross-examine 22 witnesses at his committal hearing, Central Local Court
was told today. (BURRELL)



SYDNEY - A campsite used by four missing snowboarders a year ago will be the
focus of an intense search for them today. (SNOWBOARDERS)



SYDNEY - A leading social welfare group today accused Sydney Lord Mayor Frank Sartor of
trying to sweep homeless people from the streets in time for the 2000 Olympic Games.
(HOMELESS)



BRISBANE - One Nation, the political party de-registered in Queensland, has challenged
Premier Peter Beattie to hold a state election. (NATION ELECTION. N/L to come.)



BRISBANE - A former government political adviser appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court
today over allegations he took secret commissions in return for favours. (NICHOLLS)



BRISBANE - With the memory of the Swiss canyoning disaster still fresh, a safety conference
has been told risky tourism activities such as scuba diving, white water rafting and bungee
jumping, are being heavily marketed to novices in Australia. (ADVENTURE)



BRISBANE - The Queensland government was already implementing secret plans to
privatise state-run aged care facilities, the state opposition said today. (AGED)



BRISBANE - Humans have seven intelligences but education systems generally did
not allow individuals to develop their strongest, according to a Queensland University of
Technology researcher. (INTELLIGENCE)



DARWIN - A driver dragged a policeman 40 metres along a Darwin road after being breath
tested in the early hours of this morning, Northern Territory police said today. (DRAG)



ADELAIDE - A senior South Australian trade unionist has joined the Australian Democrats,
calling on other opponents of economic rationalism to follow his lead. (SPENCE to come)



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