HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, April 282011

AAP General News (Australia)
04-28-2011
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, April 282011

MEDICAL:

CANBERRA - Outlawing the patenting of human genes will compromise funding for potential
medical breakthroughs and spark costly court battles, leading medical researchers have
told a Senate inquiry. (GENE) to come

CANBERRA - Big tobacco has taken its fight against federal Labor's plain packaging
push to the courts as it tries to gain access to health department documents. (TOBACCO
To come)

MELBOURNE - Women's menstrual cycles are credited and blamed for many things, and now
research says they can increase their risk of injuries. (Injury)

ENTERTAINMENT:

SYDNEY - Teen sensation Justin Bieber's Sydney concerts will go ahead as scheduled.

(Music Bieber)

CANBERRA - Light-hearted and occasionally tasteless jokes about Prince Philip and a
comparison of the speed at which princesses reached the altar in the past - that's what
viewers could have expected in The Chaser's now aborted royal wedding special. (TV Chaser)

IN OTHER NEWS:



AUCKLAND - Australia tried to stop Chinese officials visiting Fiji and offering the
beleaguered Pacific nation economic support, fresh WikiLeaks documents have revealed.

(Wikileaks Fiji)

AUCKLAND - The discovery of a fully-clothed body of a miner in New Zealand's collapsed
Pike River mine has reinvigorated angry calls to "get our boys out". (NZ Mine Second
Update) Wrap to come

SYDNEY - A dispute over a murder has led to severe power and water cuts in Papua New
Guinea's capital, Port Moresby. (PNG Power)

SYDNEY - NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has reannounced a state Labor initiative to install
interactive whiteboards in public schools with money left over from a federal school building
scheme. (Schools NSW) Wrap to come.

SYDNEY - A man who suffocated his chronically ill partner with a plastic bag has avoided
jail, with a judge saying he was faced with an "agonising conflict". (Mathers) Wrap to
come.

SYDNEY - Police are trawling through more than one million emails in their murder case
against property tycoon Ron Medich and four other men, a Sydney court has been told. (Medich)

SYDNEY - Two bushwalkers have been found alive and well, several days after going missing
in rugged northern NSW bushland. (Bushwalkers 2nd Update)

SYDNEY - A man has been charged over an explosion in an alleged backyard drug lab which
left one man dead and destroyed several cars in Sydney's west. (Shed)

HOBART - NBN Co has announced the next seven Tasmanian towns and suburbs in which the
super-fast broadband network will be rolled out. (NBN)

HOBART - A Launceston teenager has become the fourth person charged over the drug-related
murder of Brendan Roy Marriott in southern Tasmania last year. (PERCY)

HOBART - Police are furious over a hoax call which sparked a massive air and sea search.

(TINNY to come)

BRISBANE - Extra funding has been announced for Queensland Regional Development Australia
committees set up to deliver better services to their regions. (Regional Wrap)

BRISBANE - Two teenagers charged over an arson attack on a Brisbane primary school
have been granted bail after appearing in court. (School Update)

BRISBANE - A supporter of the coal seam gas industry says landholders have legitimate
concerns about the industry's effect on groundwater. (CSG)

MELBOURNE - Police are looking for a man who stalked and sexually assaulted a 12-year-old
girl at a swimming pool in Melbourne's west. (Assault)

MELBOURNE - A Queensland man has pleaded guilty to trying to rape a 99-year-old Melbourne
woman during a home invasion. (Valle) Wrap to come

CANBERRA - Australia's new landing ship, the surplus British fleet auxiliary Largs
Bay, is set for a major upgrade even though it hasn't yet been delivered. (Amphibious
)

CANBERRA - Both sides of politics have rejected a proposal from an Anglican Church
committee to scrap the baby bonus. (Baby)

CANBERRA - Fire has destroyed one of Canberra's historic buildings. (Club)

CANBERRA - Police have charged nine teenagers over a series of violent robberies in
Canberra in which the victims were attacked with knives, hammers and metal poles. (Attacks)

ADELAIDE - South Australian Attorney-General John Rau expects to take recommendations
to cabinet before the end of this year to create a new anti-corruption watchdog. (INTEGRITY
to come)

ADELAIDE - A shocking number of workers are still being killed or injured at work every
year, unions say. (Workers SA)

DARWIN - A licensed store in central Australia has been allowing people to use false
names like Rod Stewart, Geelong Cats and Charlie Brown to flout liquor laws. (Wycliffe)

PERTH - Two asylum seekers at the Perth Immigration Detention Centre are receiving
medical checks after threatening self-harm, the Immigration Department says. (Detainees
Perth)

PERTH - The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched two prosecutions against the Maritime
Union of Australia (MUA) alleging unlawful industrial actions at Fremantle and Broome.

(Maritime)

PERTH - A Filipino doctor who faced having to divorce his terminally ill wife to stay
in Australia says the promise of permanent residency has come as a blessing. (Sofocado)

PERTH - A female detective has acted quickly to wrench an axe from a man's hands as
her colleague held his attention with his drawn police pistol at a tavern in Perth's north.

(Axe)

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