HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 15:30, April3 =2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-2000
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 15:30, April3 =2



MELBOURNE - Three people were critically injured in a light plane crash near Shepparton
in northern Victoria this afternoon. (Crash. N/L to come.)



MELBOURNE - The first police application in Victoria to take a DNA sample from a child
was refused today because police did not specify the exact nature of the sample they required.

(DNA Sample)



MELBOURNE - At least two St Vincent's Hospital staff have caught scabies since the
arrival of patients from a Melbourne nursing home where kerosene baths were used to treat
the skin disease. (Aged Scabies)



MELBOURNE - Police today stepped up the search for two fishermen near Port Albert in
Victoria's south-east following the discovery of an upturned craft. (Fishing. N/L to come.)



MELBOURNE - Lisa McCune, the darling of Australian television despite fading from the
screen earlier this year, again leads the race for TV's most coveted prize, the Logie.

(Logies)



MELBOURNE - A 25-year-old woman today told how she scaled down a drain pipe while clutching
her five-month-old baby to escape a flat fire in Melbourne's north. (Pipe Lead)



CANBERRA - GST registrations have topped the one million mark, the Australian Taxation
Office (ATO) today revealed, as business rushes to beat the May 31 deadline. (Tax Numbers)



CANBERRA - The future of endangered whales could hinge on the outcome of next week's
endangered species trading convention, conservationists said today. (CITES )



CANBERRA - Proposed excise changes aimed at combating fuel substitutions would only
be effective if complementary consumer protection measures were also introduced, major
motor insurer NRMA said today. (Petrol NRMA)



CANBERRA - About 68 per cent of Australians with arthritis were restricted in their
activities, according to a survey by the Arthritis Foundation of Australia. (Arthritis)



CANBERRA - Job Network services will be provided in remote parts of Australia under
new contracts announced today. (Jobs remote)



SYDNEY - Greyhound Racing Authority (NSW) chief steward Rodney Potter has been stood
down pending the outcome of a New South Wales corruption watchdog inquiry into the industry,
authority chief executive Steve Rossier said today. (ICAC Greyhound. N/L to come.)



SYDNEY - A 14-year-old schoolgirl accused of murdering her mother had told a triple-0
operator that whatever had happened in their kitchen had been an accident, a jury was
told today. (Mother. N/L to come.)



TWEED HEADS - The search widened today for a 27-year-old professional fisherman missing
at sea after his trawler capsized off the New South Wales north coast overnight. (Trawler.

More to come.)



SYDNEY - New South Wales Police Commissioner Peter Ryan today said the the service
faced major radio communications difficulties but everything possible was being done to
rectify the problem. (Policeman. N/L to come.)



SYDNEY - New South Wales Premier Bob Carr said today his ministry had been warned to
expect a tough session of parliament when it resumed tomorrow.(Parliament Carr. Parliament
N/L to come.)



BRISBANE - Premier Peter Beattie today applauded Comalco's decision to choose the central
Queensland city of Gladstone as the site for a $1.4 billion alumina refinery. (Comalco
Beattie. More to come.)



BRISBANE - A new Australian-developed technique to enhance the effectiveness of chemotherapy
is set to be tested on bowel cancer patients, the company said today. (BOWEL to come).



BRISBANE - A 15-year-old youth dealt in heroin after being stood over by an adult drug
gang, the Queensland Supreme Court was told today. (Teenager)



BRISBANE - Queensland has sent a meat trade expert to Japan to minimise possible fallout
from an outbreak of cattle disease there. (Japan Disease Qld)



BRISBANE - Twenty people were charged in a major prostitution crackdown in Brisbane's
Fortitude Valley over the weekend, police said today. (Ambush)



HOBART - Public health authorities have gone too far in their warnings about catching
skin cancer from the sun and were putting people at greater risk from other diseases and
injuries, a Hobart rheumatologist said today. (Fractures)



ADELAIDE - The South Australian government is to fast-track the construction of an
electricity interconnection with New South Wales. (Interconnector)



ADELAIDE - Dentists are urging sports competitors to wear professionally-fitted mouthguards
as students and athletes prepare for the winter sports season. (MOUTHGUARD)

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