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

AAP General News (Australia)
04-06-1999
Highlights of the AAP National wire at 15:30 = 2



CANBERRA - Former Canberra tax official Colin George Dunstan was highly likely to be
convicted in relation to a mail bomb campaign late last year, an ACT Supreme Court appeal
against his grant of bail was told today. (DUNSTAN N/L to come.)



CANBERRA - Prime Minister John Howard had ignored parliament by refusing to hold an inquiry
into the insurance industry, a Labor frontbencher said today. (FLOOD)



CANBERRA - Book publishing remains big business in Australia with total turnover of more
than $1.2 billion in 1997-98, figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
reveal. (BOOKS)



CANBERRA - The apathetic approach to their national day by many Australians is shared by
their diplomats overseas, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer today revealed. (AUSTRALIA DAY to
come)



BEIJING - Australia has widened the net in its multi-million dollar Asian drug hunt with
the posting of police intelligence officers to China and Vietnam. (CHINA AUST DRUGS)



MELBOURNE - Cost cutting and low staff at Victoria's privatised jails led to an
unsupervised convicted rapist playing football and drinking beer, the prison officers'
union claimed today. (PRISONS VIC)



MELBOURNE - An elderly woman driver plunged over a cliff off Melbourne's Mornington
Peninsula today and survived with apparently just a cut finger, shock and a badly
dented car. (CLIFF)



MELBOURNE - Victorian police today offered a $50,000 reward for information on
the brutal murder of a 65-year-old grandfather. (BINNS. N/L to come.)



MELBOURNE - More security cameras and a heavier police presence are key elements of a new
Labor plan to reduce crime in the centre of Melbourne. (CRIME)



MELBOURNE - Criminals would celebrate Victorian government cuts to Crime Stoppers, the
hotline for anonymous police tip-offs, the state opposition said today. (CRIMESTOPPERS)



SYDNEY - Robert Holmes a Court believed in the Power of One. Janet Holmes a Court believes
in the Might of Many. (HOLMES to come)



SYDNEY - Liberal Party selfishness was to blame for the ALP victory in the New South Wales
north coast seat of Clarence, beaten National Party candidate Steve Cansdell said
today. (POLLNSW CLARENCE. POLLNSW N/L to come.)



SYDNEY - A Sydney cabbie accused of murdering a passenger today told a jury he
did not intentionally run down the man. (MALLAK. N/L to come.)



SYDNEY - Street prostitute and drug addict Paula Bonacina was desperately trying to mend
her ways when she was murdered, her mother said today. (BONACINA to come.)



SYDNEY - Eighteen people were suspended in midair for nearly an hour today before being
rescued from the Space Loop at the Sydney Royal Easter Show at Homebush. (SHOW RESCUE)



BRISBANE - A post mortem examination was expected to be held later today in
Gladstone after the apparent murder-suicide of a couple near the small central Queensland
township of Calliope yesterday. (SHED)



BRISBANE - The Queensland government continued its push for more funding during the
changeover period to a GST with a $160,000 newspaper advertising campaign launched
today. (TAX QLD. See also TAX QLD COURT. N/L to come.)



GOLD COAST - Convicted Gold Coast conman Peter Foster could still challenge
federal Justice Minister Amanda Vanstone's approval of his extradition to Britain on fraud
charges, his solicitor said today. (FOSTER)



BRISBANE - A drug expert will brief Queensland Cabinet today on detoxification trials for
heroin addicts ahead of Friday's premiers' conference in Canberra. (DRUGS QLD. More to come.)



BRISBANE - Police have launched an investigation following the discovery yesterday of a
body near Laidley, a rural community west of Brisbane. (DECOMPOSE)



ADELAIDE - Five years after a parcel bomb ripped through the National Crime Authority's
(NCA) Adelaide office, killing one man and injuring another, an inquest finally began today.

(NCA to come.)



ADELAIDE - More than 150 people had already confirmed their intention to take
part in a class action seeking compensation over a salmonella outbreak in South Australia
linked to orange juice, a lawyer said today. (SALMONELLA)



ADELAIDE - South Australian Premier John Olsen will take a comprehensive anti-drugs package
to the Premiers' conference in Canberra on Friday. (PREMIERS DRUGS)



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