HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Aug 26 =2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-26-2006
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Aug 26 =2

HOBART - Prime Minister John Howard has again laughed off protests over his workplace
reforms, saying their effectiveness has been proved by the number of Australians now in
jobs. (Workplace Howard)

HOBART - The states' campaign against Work Choices legislation is unravelling, Workplace
Relations Minister Kevin Andrews says. (Workplace Andrews)

HOBART - Prime Minister John Howard says European countries need to "come up to the
crease" to stabilise tensions in the Middle East. (Mideast Howard)

HOBART - Tasmania has been described as a critical battleground in the lead-up to the
state election. (Howard Tas)

HOBART - Rescuers are continuing to search for two men missing in separate instances
in Tasmania's remote forests. (SEARCH)

CANBERRA - A biologist who plans to freeze himself and his family says Australia's
first cryogenic centre could be running within six months. (Freeze Nightlead to come)

MELBOURNE - A 15-year-old boy will face court charged with the attempted murder and
sexual assault of an elderly woman in rural Victoria. (PUNCHED)

MELBOURNE - A 32-year-old woman died and her eight-year-old daughter was critically
injured when the car in which they were passengers hit a horse crossing a highway west
of Melbourne. (TOLL VIC)

MELBOURNE - A 29-year-old man has been charged with trafficking drugs and endangering
the lives of others following a police chase through the Melbourne inner-city suburb of
Brunswick. (CHASE)

MELBOURNE - Chanting `walk a mile in their shoes' a crowd of about 500 has gathered
in Melbourne to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Tampa controversy. (TAMPA to
come.)

DARWIN - Police are seeking witnesses to a single-vehicle accident which left one man
dead and another seriously injured in Darwin overnight. (KARAMA to come)

PERTH - A 14-year-old girl killed in a car crash in Perth may have been the victim
of an illegal car race, police say. (TOLL WA)

SYDNEY - Hundreds of patients misdiagnosed by a pathologist at a NSW hospital are entitled
to seek a legal claim against the state government, Premier Morris Iemma says. (ZAER IEMMA)



SYDNEY - Eight people have escaped with minor injuries from a burning house in western
NSW. (FIRE)

SYDNEY - A man has been charged with child sex offences after allegedly propositioning
a 13-year-old boy on an internet chat site. (CHAT, Chat N/L to come)

SYDNEY - Police are concerned for the welfare of a northern NSW woman who has been
missing for 11 days.(MILLS)



SYDNEY - Sydney's Cross City Tunnel is currently unviable and a move to increase one
type of toll will only make it more unattractive to motorists, NSW Premier Morris Iemma
says. (TUNNEL IEMMA)



SYDNEY - NSW government is considering taking water from the Shoalhaven River throughout
the year, rather than just during times of drought, to help secure Sydney's water supply.

(WATER NSW)



SYDNEY - The NSW government has released new video educating parents about sport rage (RAGE)



BRISBANE - A 48-year-old woman has died in a crash in which a six-month-old baby escaped
with minor injuries after being thrown from a car. (TOLL QLD)

BRISBANE - Six police officers have been injured in a crash between two unmarked police
vehicles involved in a late night road safety operation. (UNMARKED)

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