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

AAP General News (Australia)
04-23-2000
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 15:30 = 2

HOBART - The dedication of a memorial at Port Athur next Friday will "close a chapter,
but not the book" on Australia's worst massacre. (ARTHUR MEMORIAL)

PORT MORESBY - The Australian commander of East Timor's INTERFET force on East Timor,
Major-General Peter Cosgrove, is making a private Easter visit to Australia's peacekeepers
on the former secession island of Bougainville. (PNG COSGROVE)

CANBERRA - The federal government must promptly establish a GST task force to help
victims of collapsed home builders, the Royal Institute of Architects said today. (TAX
ARCHITECTS, see also TAX DESPOJA, TAX CARAVANS)

CANBERRA - Employment Services Minister Tony Abbott's controversial references to some
unemployed as job snobs were not helpful, Family and Community Services Minister Jocelyn
Newman said today. (JOBS NEWMAN)

CANBERRA - Telstra would, under Labor, retain the freedom to make its own commercial
decisions without more government intervention, the opposition said today. (TELSTRA MCMULLAN)

CANBERRA - Australian Democrats deputy leader Natasha Stott Despoja isn't taking it
for granted that she'll be around after the next federal election. (DESPOJA, see also
REPUBLIC)

SYDNEY - Support for the New South Wales coalition opposition has fallen further, a
Bulletin-Morgan Poll has found. (POLL NSW DAYLEAD, NIGHTLEAD to come)

SYDNEY - Three men were arrested and a quantity of drugs uncovered overnight in a police
operation spanning four states, the National Crime Authority (NCA) said today. (ECSTASY)

SYDNEY - A new missing persons unit is to be established to help families and friends
deal with their unresolved grief, the New South Wales government said today. (MISSING)

SYDNEY - Church and chocolate helped spread holiday cheer at the Royal Easter Show
today. (SHOW, to come)

SYDNEY - The takeover bid for Tasmania's J. Boag & Son is part of the internationalisation
of brewing which will result in boutique breweries producing high quality, more expensive,
niche beer and multi-nationals producing the lower cost, bulk beer, according to leading
boutique brewer, Chuck Hahn. (BEER)

MELBOURNE - A Victoria police officer has resigned following disciplinary charges against
him and another officer alleging they moonlighted as truck drivers. (POLICE)

MELBOURNE - A 40-year-old man has died after being accidentally shot while spotlight
shooting on a property at Dimboola, in Victoria's west overnight. (SHOOTING)

MELBOURNE - An Indonesian fisherman is in the Royal Hobart Hospital with serious head
injuries after hitting his head when his ship was caught by a wave. (FISHERMAN, to come)

BRISBANE - Queensland Premier Peter Beattie today sidestepped claims that former Tourism
Minister Bob Gibbs picked up an extra $40,000 superannuation payout by delaying his resignation
a week. (SUPER)

BRISBANE - Raw sewage has closed one of the two surfing beaches at Queensland's idyllic
Stradbroke Island on one of the busiest day's of the year. (ISLAND)

BRISBANE - The Sydney Olympics would help generate more than $1 billion in global publicity
this year, the Australian Tourist Commission's (ATC) managing director John Morse said
today. (OLY ATC)

BRISBANE - Sydney may have the Olympics but Australia's alternative capital Nimbin
will host its own special version of the event next month. (MARDIGRASS)

BRISBANE - The Queensland government is to crack down on lewd entertainment at lap
dance clubs and strip joints. (ADULT)

ADELAIDE - Food will be taken to five people cut off by flooding at two outstations
north of Alice Springs as waters recedes in the area. (ALICE FLOODS)

ADELAIDE - A drug vital to people with the critical heart condition "slow coronary
flow", would soon run out in Australia, the South Australian opposition said. (POSICOR)

PERTH - The Shire of Broome will ask the West Australia government for millions of
dollars in disaster relief in the aftermath of tropical cyclone Rosita. (ROSITA)

PERTH - A new $374 million freeway linking Perth's eastern and western suburbs and
bypassing the central business district will open to traffic tonight. (TUNNEL to come)

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