HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, Aug 222011

AAP General News (Australia)
08-22-2011
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, Aug 222011

SYDNEY - Scientific evidence about Gordon Wood being able to "spear throw" his girlfriend
off a Sydney cliff is being challenged in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal. (WOOD) Wrap
to come

SYDNEY - A serial pedophile has been jailed for at least 20 years for abusing four
boys over three decades. (McIntosh) Wrap to come.

SYDNEY - A Comanchero bikie boss has admitted punching and kicking a man who died in
a brawl between rival gangs at Sydney airport. (BIKIES) Wrap to come.

SYDNEY - Gunmen who shot at the former home of Ibrahim family members and narrowly
missed innocent occupants inside have "gone beyond stupid", police say. (HOUSES update
to come) Wrap to follow.

SYDNEY - Australian actor Matthew Newton says there's a huge amount of stigma surrounding
mental illness, but urged sufferers to seek help. (Newton)

SYDNEY - The mother of twin babies was among a number of gambling addicts arrested
in a series of police drug raids across southwest Sydney that also netted $22.6 million
worth of cannabis. (Cannabis Update)

SYDNEY - A former NSW education department bureaucrat allegedly recruited staff from
a company, of which he was a director and shareholder, as part of a $376,000 rort, a NSW
corruption inquiry has heard. (ICAC Johnson)

CANBERRA - The technology now available for hearing-impaired children has proven life
changing for five-month-old Isabel Cairns and her family. (Hearing)

CANBERRA - Federal parliament has continued a ban on a group of significant terror
organisations and added a new al-Qaeda branch to the list. (Terror)

MELBOURNE - Paramedics have described the blast injuries suffered by two men in a Victorian
backyard explosion as war-like. (EXPLOSION) Wrap to come.

MELBOURNE - A mother who survived a plane crash that killed her teenage daughter in
west Victoria has woken from a coma asking about her child, but her husband says he can't
yet tell her that she is dead. (PLANE) to come.

MELBOURNE - A driver who killed three members of the same family in a head-on car crash
has been jailed for more than 10 years. (Singh) Wrap to come.

MELBOURNE - Classmates of four-year-old Ayen Chol, mauled to death by a neighbour's
pit bull mastiff dog in her Melbourne home, are asking where their friend is and why she's

gone. (Dog)

MELBOURNE - A British police officer is to lead Victoria through fires and floods as
the state's new emergency services commissioner. (Hallowes)

MELBOURNE - The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) will review security at the Melbourne
Cricket Ground (MCG) after a man was found carrying a knife in the Brisbane Lions changerooms
on Saturday (KNIFE)

MELBOURNE - A driver who killed three members of the same family in a head-on car crash
has been jailed for more than 10 years. (SINGH)
- SINGH WRAP tgo come.

MELBOURNE - Police have seized 600 firearms during the shut-down of a gun shop in Melbourne's
west. (FIREARMS)S WRAP to come.

ADELAIDE - Family First will bring legislation to the South Australian parliament in
a bid to stamp out violence in sport. (Kick Update )

ADELAIDE - Cathay Pacific has announced it is introducing non-stop services from Adelaide
to Hong Kong on three of its seven flights a week from November. (Cathay to come)

BRISBANE - Graziers and environmentalists are billing their legal challenge against
a proposed Queensland coal mine as a "David vs Goliath" battle. (Wandoan) Wrap to come.

BRISBANE - A power company accused of slugging Queensland flood victims with unreasonable
estimated bills says it is attempting to contact all affected customers. (Recovery Origin
Update) Wrap to come on merit.

BRISBANE - A police officer was attacked and his car damaged by three people in an
assault in a central Queensland town on Sunday night. (Officer)

GOLD COAST - A month long blitz on Gold Coast crime is settling the nerves of the locals,
according to police. (Seymore)

GOLD COAST - A lengthy wait for service led to an attempted armed robbery of a Gold
Coast brothel by a couple of frustrated customers, police allege. (Brothel)

PERTH - A homeless woman has been killed after being struck by a train at a station
in Perth's north. (Track)

MEDICAL

SYDNEY - Menopausal women who stop using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are likely
to start skipping mammogram checks for breast cancer, a study suggests. (Mammogram)

ENTERTAINMENT

SYDNEY - Eskimo Joe's latest record Ghosts Of The Past has stormed to number three
in its first week on the ARIA albums chart. (Pops Aust)

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