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AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Midday, April 13
AAP General News (Australia)
04-13-2007
AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Midday, April 13
Midday Round-Up: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AAP RTV FILE AT 1130
COAG Wrap (CANBERRA)
State and territory and federal leaders have arrived in Canberra for today's Council
of Australian Government meeting.
And the agenda's packed .. with climate change .. health and education at the top of the list.
Tasmanian Premier PAUL LENNON says he's confident the state and territory leaders will
co-operate with the prime minister .. because voters want to see co-operation between
their political leaders.
And South Australian Premier MIKE RANN has denied the Labor state and territory leaders
will be pushing the federal Labor line today.
He says KEVIN RUDD doesn't need a leg-up .. because he's streets ahead.
Canberra's 10 billion dollar plan to take control of the Murray Darling Basin .. isn't
on the agenda today .. and remains at a stalemate .. with Victorian Premier STEVE BRACKS
refusing to sign on.
Sheik Howard (MELBOURNE)
JOHN HOWARD says Australians should start treating controversial Muslim cleric Sheik
TAJ ALDIN ALHILALI as a joke .. in light of his latest comments.
The Prime Minister's told Southern Cross Broadcasting the mufti should be removed because
he's bringing ridicule onto the Islamic community.
Mr HOWARD says he's untroubled by the mufti's claims he's more Australian than the
PM .. who he also calls a dictator .. but says there's still a serious issue of him holding
a position of influence.
Economy Howard (CANBERRA)
JOHN HOWARD says a low unemployment rate doesn't necessarily mean interest rates will
have to be lifted again .. as long as wages remain under control.
The Prime Minister says low unemployment doesn't automatically mean low interest rates.
He's told Southern Cross radio some of the market reactions are simplistic.
HIV Howard (MELBOURNE)
JOHN HOWARD says HIV-positive people should be denied entry to Australia as migrants or refugees.
Speaking on Southern Cross Broadcasting .. the Prime Minister says Australia already
stops people with tuberculosis coming in .. and this is why he supports stopping HIV-positive
people as well.
He says he'll look at changing the law to stop HIV-positive people coming to Australia.
Daylight (HOBART)
Two Australian states and a territory have adopted a longer daylight saving period.
The move will end clock discrepancies in the summer by bringing New South Wales ..
Victoria .. the ACT and Tasmania into the same time period .. from the first Sunday in
October until the first Sunday in April.
Tasmania has previously been one hour out of step with those states .. because it started
daylight saving three weeks before they did.
Lewthwaite (SYDNEY)
Convicted child killer JOHN LEWTHWAITE has been granted parole .. two weeks after he
was cleared of indecency charges by a Sydney court.
51-year-old LEWTHWAITE had been in custody since his last long parole was revoked in
September last year .. after he sunbathed nude at Wanda Beach in Sydney's south.
State Parole Authority acting chairwoman DEIRDRE O'CONNOR .. says they've decided to
grant LEWTHWAITE parole .. and he'll be released as soon as possible.
Anzac Sunrise (SYDNEY)
Senior government frontbencher JOE HOCKEY .. has backed his political foe KEVIN RUDD
.. over allegations the Labor leader teamed with the Seven Network to attend an Anzac
Day dawn service in Vietnam .. televised before dawn.
Mr HOCKEY's told Seven's Sunrise program .. the plan was about honouring the diggers
on Anzac Day.
He says there was no attempt to score political points .. and no one should doubt the
intentions of the Mr RUDD or the network staff.
Coghlan (MELBOURNE)
49 workers are staging a sit-in at a car parts factory in Victoria's south-west after
being stood down.
Workers at Coghlan and Russell Engineering in Geelong .. were stood down yesterday
without pay .. or assurances they will receive almost 1.5 million dollars owed in entitlements.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union .. says the factory entered administration
on Wednesday .. a move the union says is putting the country's car industry at risk.
UK Capsize Toll (LONDON)
Three Norwegian crew members have died and another five are missing .. after their
tugboat capsized in the North Sea .. off the coast of Scotland.
British coastguards say seven more crew have been rescued from the Norwegian supply
tug .. which capsized 120 kilometres north of the Shetland Islands.
As night sets in .. a rescue operation involving two helicopters and three vessels
is scaling down .. but a naval diving unit remained on the scene with divers. planning
to continue the search.
Indon Hambali (WASHINGTON)
A military hearing in Guantanamo bay has heard from an Indonesian man .. who's been
linked to a terror group blamed for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings.
RIDUAN ISAMUDDIN has told the US tribunal he prefers to be called HAMBALI.
He says he has no association with al-Qaeda and has no knowledge of other terrorist
plots he's accused of orchestrating .. as the alleged operations chief of Jemaah Islamiah.
UK Booker (LONDON)
Australian novelist PETER CAREY is among the nominees .. announced today for the second
Booker International Prize for fiction.
Announced at a news conference in Toronto .. the contenders MARGARET ATWOOD .. SALMAN
RUSHDIE and PHILIP ROTH.
The winner will be announced in June.
US Imus (NEW YORK)
US radio host DON IMUS has been dumped by CBS Radio .. over racist and sexist comments
about a women's college basketball team.
The move comes after several major advertisers backed out after he called the mostly
black Rutgers University team nappy-headed hos.
Nappy is a slur describing the tightly curled hair of many African-Americans .. and
ho is slang for whore .. used in hip hop culture.
UK Party (LONDON)
Two British parents have been left with a bill of almost 50 thousand dollars .. after
a party advertised by their teenage daughter on the internet .. attracted hundreds of
revellers who trashed their home.
17-year-old RACHEL BELL advertised the party on MySpace .. and expected only 30 or
40 people to arrive .. but more than 200 invaded the house in County Durham .. north-east
England.
The teenager denies writing an advertisement which read .. Let's trash the average
family-sized house disco party.
Her parents returned from holiday to find buckets filled with vomit .. cigarette butts
littered throughout the house .. and a wedding dress pulled out of a wardrobe and urinated
on.
Briefly in other news ..
Researchers have produced the first clear evidence for a gene that dictates why some people
gain weight while others do not.
NIBBLES .. an elephant seal on the northern California coast .. is defying his tame nickname
by killing smaller seals .. menacing a kayaker .. and chomping on a surfer and a dog.
The governor of the US state of New Jersey .. has reportedly broken his leg in a serious
hit-and-run car accident .. near the gambling centre of Atlantic City.
in Finance ..
At 1104 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was UP 2.5 points to 6,160.7, and the all
ordinaries index was UP 3.6 points to 6,146.4.
The Australian dollar was trading at 83.17 US cents, UP from 82.53 US cents at Thursday's close.
It was at 61.60 euro cents, UP from 61.45 euro cents on Thursday.
In Sydney, gold bullion was trading at $US677.10 per fine ounce, DOWN $US0.75 from
$US677.85 at the local close on Thursday.
in Sport ..
Golf LPGA (ORLANDO)
English veteran LAURA DAVIES and rising Mexican star LORENA OCHOA share the first-round
lead in the $US2.6 million ($A3.14 million) LPGA Ginn Open in Orlando, Florida.
With Swedish world No.1 ANNIKA SORENSTAM a last-minute absentee because of back injury,
DAVIES and OCHOA both shot six-under-par 66s.
MICHELLE ELLIS was the best placed Australian after an opening 71, one shot ahead
of KARRIE WEBB.
Soccer UEFA (LONDON)
Three Spanish teams have advanced to the UEFA Cup semifinals, with defending champion
Sevilla leading the way.
Osasuna and Espanyol also reached the last four, while Werder Bremen claimed the final spot.
ENDS MIDDAY ROUND-UP
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