HighLights of the AAP National Wire = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
05-27-2011
HighLights of the AAP National Wire = 2

LOS ANGELES - The millionaire US lottery winner accused of shooting dead Australian
property developer Greg McNicol warned "watch your mouth" before firing the fatal bullet,
a Detroit court has heard. (US McNicol)

LOS ANGELES - The stepmother of murdered Australian schoolgirl Zahra Baker has appeared
in a North Carolina court to face federal drug trafficking charges. (US Zahra)

AUCKLAND - Residents of a tiny Fiji village have signed a petition banning their prime
minister from going there in protest over the treatment of the country's runaway colonel.

(Fiji Fugitive)

BRISBANE - Premier Anna Bligh says Queensland is on the verge of a new gas age, amid
mounting opposition to the rapid expansion of the coal seam gas (CSG) industry. (CSG)
Update)

CANBERRA - Australia has welcomed the arrest of Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic after
16 years on the run. (Mladic Aust)

CANBERRA - Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten is confident the government will get the
budget back to surplus in 2012/13, and will work through the issue of royalty increases
with Western Australia. (MRRT)

SYDNEY - The work of the Salvation Army is a "matter of life and death" for many Australians,
the organisation has said on the eve of its national Red Shield doorknock appeal. (Salvos
Update (pix available))

PERTH - A toddler and a policeman have become the latest victims of a potentially deadly
mosquito-borne disease in Western Australia. (Mosquito)

SYDNEY - Australian retailers must explain why they charge huge mark-ups on products
that cost half as much from overseas internet companies, consumer group Choice says. (Retail)

SYDNEY - Many indigenous Australians were free from racism for the first time when
they fought in World War I, but it was another 50 years before they were treated with
the respect they deserved, NSW Governor Marie Bashir says. (Indigenous)

MELBOURNE - Cataract blindness could be eradicated from Aboriginal communities by carrying
out just 3,000 more operations a year, a report has found. (Eye)

HOBART - Independent federal MP Andrew Wilkie says he will move to block the incoming
excise on LPG. (LPG)

SYDNEY - There has been another altercation at a western Sydney train station, this
time resulting in a teenage boy being seriously injured when he was struck by a passing
train. (Train)

Train Wrap to come.

SYDNEY - The NSW government has denied reports a north west rail link and Paramatta
to Epping line will be "developed in parallel" in Sydney. (Transport) Update on merit.

SYDNEY - One of the Australian Defence Force's three amphibious transport ships, HMAS
Manoora, was officially decommissioned on Friday, more than a year ahead of schedule.

(Manoora)

SYDNEY - They may have shot to fame on the big screen but Taronga Zoo's new ring-tailed
lemurs are proving to be a little camera shy. (Lemurs with pics and video)

SYDNEY - A man is being questioned by police in hospital, after his housemate was found
stabbed to death in Sydney's west. (Body)

MELBOURNE - Missing teenager Jesse Densley has been reunited with his family after
police found him in Melbourne's west. (Densley)

Update and Wrap to come

MELBOURNE - Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu has acknowledged the coalition's bungled
attempt to pass a key bill in parliament as a bad mistake but is confident the government
can recommit the vote. (Rights)

Right Wrap to come.

MELBOURNE - The father of a fatal bashing victim has called on the friends of his son's
attacker to help police bring him to justice. (McCormack Wrap)

CAIRNS - Two dead dolphins have washed ashore near Queensland port city Gladstone and
environmentalists fear there will be more to come. (Dolphins)

BRISBANE - Queenslanders have been granted more time to tell the state's flood inquiry
about their experiences with insurance companies. (Floods Inquiry Extend)

Floods Inquiry Wrap to come.

BRISBANE - Police are hunting for a man and a woman over the violent death of a man
north of Brisbane. (Behrendorff)

ADELAIDE - The South Australian and federal governments have invested $5 million to
bring extra psychiatric services to SA rural communities. (Video)

ADELAIDE - Racism continues to have a damaging impact on the lives of Aboriginal people,
South Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Grace Portolesi says. (Racism SA )

ADELAIDE - A move to shift more work on the $8 billion air warfare destroyer (AWD)
project to Adelaide will boost jobs in the state's booming defence sector, Premier Mike
Rann says. (Destroyer Rann)

ADELAIDE - Adelaide police are searching for a 1990s Nissan Skyline following a fatal
hit-and-run crash in the city's north. (Toll SA )

PERTH - A man has been arrested after allegedly barricading himself inside a Perth
house with six children after stabbing his former partner in the leg. (Barricade)

PERTH - The sentencing of a 16-year-old Perth boy who pressured girls to perform sex
acts on a webcam then posted the videos on Facebook has been delayed. (Webcam)

MEDICAL

SYDNEY - Australian researchers have, for the first time, studied the repetitive behaviours
of people with obsessive compulsive disorder, discovering they're performed automatically
and for a number of reasons. (Compulsions to come)

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