National Newslist for Sunday, April 1

AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2007
National Newslist for Sunday, April 1
Good Morning News Editors and Chiefs of Staff
AAP's National Newslist for today (not for publication):
This is a guide only and stories are subject to change.

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HICKS
INTERNATIONAL:

GUANTANAMO BAY - The paperwork for the return to Australia of confessed terrorist David
Hicks could be completed by the end of the week, his lawyer Major Michael Mori says.

DOMESTIC

SYDNEY - Confessed terrorist David Hicks will return to studying and seek to live a
normal existence on his return to Australia and release from jail, his lawyer Major Michael
Mori says.

SYDNEY - A decision on whether to monitor David Hicks upon his release from jail in
Australia is a matter for the police, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says.

CANBERRA - Sympathisers of David Hicks should remember the thousands of innocent people
killed by the terrorist groups he admitted to supporting, Treasurer Peter Costello says.


GENERAL
CANBERRA:

- Australia's richest politician, Malcolm Turnbull has denied he has ambitions to take
over from John Howard as prime minister.

- Labor is treating climate change as a near religious issue while the government is
working to reduce its effects by practical measures, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull
says.

SYDNEY:

- Ferry update, including press conference with father of missing 14-year-old Morgan
Innes to be held at 10.45am (AEST).

- Checking up on hunger strike at Villawood Detention Centre.

- Qantas families and unions to gather at Cahill Park, Arncliffe over concerns that
jobs, conditions, and entitlements will be cut if the Airline Partners Australia takeover
bid goes ahead.

- Wests Tigers forward Bryce Gibbs is charged for assaulting police.

- A nine-year-old boy has been seriously injured in a hit and run in Sydney's north.

- An assistant in a newsagency has been punched in the head and robbed by two men in
Sydney's eastern suburbs.

- Two men have been airlifted to hospital with severe burns after an explosion on a
boat on the Hawkesbury River north-west of Sydney.

- Update on Earth Hour.

MELBOURNE:

- Vic govt introduces new, tougher water restrictions from today.

- Rove McManus returns to TV.

- Police in Melbourne hunt gunman who held up a service station before fleeing with
the cash takings.

- A woman has been killed and three other people hurt in a head-on collision involving
two cars in northern Victoria.

- An elderly man has died trying to escape a fire in his home in Victoria's south.

BRISBANE:

- A man has been charged after allegedly threatening police with an axe on a south-east
Queensland street.

- Two women are recovering in hospital after being hit by an out-of-control car while
standing on a footpath in Brisbane's north.

- A man has died after his car left the road and rolled several times in outback Queensland.

- A man is in a critical condition after allegedly being punched in the head by a bouncer
in Brisbane's south.

- The federal Labor Party holds a comfortable 14 point lead over the coalition on a
two-party preferred basis, according to a new opinion poll.

- Federal Young Liberals president Mark Powell withdraws his bid for Queensland's vacant
Senate seat and thrown his support behind Bob Quinn.

- Qld deputy premier Anna Bligh update on water projects




MEDICAL:

- Hospitals have endured a fourfold increase in cases of drug-induced psychosis in
the past decade, fuelled by addiction to dangerous stimulants, landmark research shows.

- Obese people are more likely to develop infected wounds and renal failure after
heart surgery, new research shows.




FINANCE:

- Myer boss Bill Wavish interviewed on Inside Business.

- Retail sales are likely to have risen in February.

- Demand for information and communications technology contractors on the increase.

- Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission releases draft report on food regulation

- Inside Business looks at Alinta and Babccock & Brown deal and talks to one of the
deal's chief architects, Babcock & Brown's Trevor Loewensohn. - Market Preview


SPORT:

MELBOURNE - Ian Thorpe expected to front media at a press conference in Melbourne at
3pm (AEST) today amid allegations he returned abnormal hormone levels at a doping test
last year.

MELBOURNE - Australian team captain Grant Hackett scheduled to defend his 1500m freestyle
title at the world swimming championships in Melbourne tonight.

MELBOURNE - American superstar Michael Phelps chasing his eighth gold medal at the
world swimming championships in Melbourne tonight in the 400m individual medley and men's
4x100m medley relay.

ST JOHN'S, Antigua, March 31 AAP - Glenn McGrath claimed the World Cup record for most
wickets as Australia coasted to a 10-wicket win with 8.1 overs to spare in today's Super
Eights clash with Bangladesh in Antigua.



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