HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, April 17 =2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-2007
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, April 17 =2

SYDNEY - Australians are having sex twice a week on average but fewer than half claim
to be fully satisfied by their encounters. (Sex Satisfaction)

SYDNEY - Design software vendor Adobe Systems has unveiled a new media device to take
on established content players such as RealPlayer, QuickTime and Windows Media Player.

(Adobe)

AUCKLAND - Fiji's military rulers appear to have softened criticisms of Australia and
New Zealand and have ruled out closing their high commissions in Suva. (Fiji Commissions)

CANBERRA - Labor has warned other universities not to automatically adopt Melbourne
University's plan to slash government-funded undergraduate places and replace them with
more postgraduate positions. (University Labor)

CANBERRA - ANZ Bank CEO John McFarlane says the ANZ's reconciliation action plan, to
be unveiled tomorrow, is aimed at improving the living standards of indigenous Australians.

(Indigenous ANZ)

CANBERRA - Labor leader Kevin Rudd says he will intervene to ensure candidates are
pre-selected if it is necessary for the party. (COMBET RUDD to come)

CANBERRA - The National Museum of Australia says it is running out of exhibition space,
just six years after it opened to the public. (MUSEUM to come)

CANBERRA - When Walter Burley Griffin drew up designs for Canberra almost 100 year
ago, he probably didn't expect a seaplane service to be a feature of the lake named after
him. (SEAPLANE to come)

SYDNEY - A judge has allowed former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib to amend his
statement of claim to include the "unlikely" allegation he was interrogated at an Australian
government office in Pakistan. (Habib. N/L to come)

SYDNEY - It is still hard for Ron Delezio to revisit the time when his daughter Sophie
suffered horrific burns in a tragic accident in Sydney's north. (Delezio)

SYDNEY - Legendary World War II pilot Bobby Gibbes will be honoured with a flypast
today during his funeral service in North Sydney. (Flypast)

SYDNEY - Four police officers were injured today when their vehicle was hit from behind
by a fully loaded semi-trailer in northern NSW. (Officers)

SYDNEY - Disgruntled Sydney train passengers will be able to complain directly to bosses
in a new plan to put CityRail managers on the front line at stations, the rail network's
chief executive officer says. (Trains. N/L to come)

MELBOURNE - An underworld killer is expected to give evidence at a hearing relating
to Renate Mokbel's application to have the restraining order on her house varied so she
can sell it, pay the $1 million and get out of jail. (MOKBEL to come.)

MELBOURNE - Sotheby's Melbourne to auction the only major Clifford Possum painting
to remain in private hands; the artwork "Warlugulong 1977" is expected to fetch up to
$2.5 million (POSSUM to come.)

MELBOURNE - Three men from Victoria's Ocean Grove Football Club charged over an alleged
race hate attack on a Jewish businessman to face court. Melbourne Magistrates' Court.

(To come)

BRISBANE - State and municipal authorities should shoulder the blame for the way water
resources have been mismanaged, Prime Minister John Howard says. (Water Qld Howard. N/L
to come.)

BRISBANE - Queensland's system of local government is set to undergo sweeping changes,
Premier Peter Beattie says. (Councils. N/L to come)

BRISBANE - The father of Bali drug mule Scott Rush is stepping up the campaign to give
his son a reprieve from the death sentence with a public forum in Brisbane on Thursday
(BALI RUSH to come)

BRISBANE - A Queensland man who bashed another man on crutches so severely that a metal
plate had to be inserted into his face will spend nine months in jail. (Spencer)

LOWOOD - Prime Minister John Howard says he's determined to secure a joint Nationals-Liberal
Senate ticket in Queensland at the next election. (Liberals Howard)

BRISBANE - A Labor MP whose employee was taken hostage during a dramatic siege at his
far north Queensland office wants better training for electorate staff. (Siege)

GOLD COAST - Gold Coast theme park Dreamworld's newest attractions took their first
look at the outside world today. (Cubs)

ADELAIDE - The South Australian Housing Trust turned a blind eye to allegations a HIV-positive
man accused of infecting up to 12 men ran a male prostitution ring in his home, the SA
Liberal Opposition says. (HIV SA. N/L on merit)

ADELAIDE - The Australian Democrats have criticised oil industry executives meeting
in Adelaide for failing to discuss the issue of the world's dwindling oil supplies. (Petroleum
Democrats. N/L to come.)

ADELAIDE - Federal Opposition Resources and Energy spokesman Chris Evans says he's
hopeful Labor's national conference will overturn the party's ban on new uranium mines.

(Uranium )

ADELAIDE - A box of uranium samples from BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam has been found
outside the mine's lease area in South Australia's far north. (Uranium BHP. More to come)

PERTH - A Perth man has admitted thinking about killing a teenage boy that he and his
boyfriend held captive a sex slave for 20 days. (Wheeler to come, N/L to follow, on merit.)

PERTH - A search for a Japanese tourist washed off rocks on a rugged section of the
West Australian coast will resume today but police have little hope of finding him alive.

(Tourist. N/L on merit)

PERTH - A former television actor to be sentenced for trafficking almost 2kg of ice
from Sydney to Perth while working as a Qantas flight attendant. (Dow to come)

PERTH - Perth detectives were today heading for a remote West Australian Aboriginal
community where tensions have simmered since three people were charged with a string of
child sex offences. (Sex to come)

HOBART - The Tasmanian Greens have questioned the credentials of a consultant chosen
to fast-track the assessment of a proposed $2 billion pulp mill from logging giant Gunns
Ltd. (Pulp Nightlead)

HOBART - Scandinavian environmental technology firm SWECO PIC will assess whether a
proposed $2 billion pulp mill complies with Tasmania's emission limit guidelines. (Pulp
Consultant)

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