HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, Aug 5

AAP General News (Australia)
08-05-2009
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, Aug 5

MELBOURNE - A man charged over an alleged terrorist plot to kill Australian soldiers
has delivered an angry outburst in court. (Terror Fattal)

CANBERRA - The radical Islamist organisation allegedly planning an attack on a Sydney
military base had been considered for listing as a terrorist group in Australia. (Terror
alShabaab Rudd)

MELBOURNE - Victorian Police Commissioner Simon Overland has announced the Office of
Police Integrity (OPI) will launch a wide-ranging inquiry into the leaking of sensitive
details about a counter-terrorism raid in Melbourne on Tuesday. (Terror Overland Update)

SEE ALSO: Terror Dein, Terror NSW, Terror Civil

TO COME: Terror Wrap, Terror Federal Wrap, Terror Police Wrap. More expected on Terror Community



CANBERRA - Opposition Senate leader Nick Minchin says Malcolm Turnbull is innocent
in the OzCar affair and has the Liberal Party's full support. (Dealers Senate)

Dealers Wrap to come



BRISBANE - Queensland Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek is without a chief of staff
and may be stuck with a $90,000 bill after an "annotated" email was used to defend the
taxpayer funding of billboards. (Billboard Update)

Billboard Wrap to come



CAIRNS - The departing chairman of the Pacific Island Forum has urged Fijian citizens
to rise against the country's military regime. (Forum Fiji Update)

CANBERRA - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told a meeting of Pacific Island leaders that
improving the lives of the region's 2.7 million poor should be top of their agenda. (Forum
Rudd)

SEE ALSO: Forum Fiji Update, Forum Torres, Forum Ielemia, Forum Smith, Forum Protest

TO COME: Forum Wrap. Plus coverage of Rudd presser



DARWIN - Renegade MP Alison Anderson says the Northern Territory's chief minister is
a "dead man walking" and she's going to make the Labor government wait a week before it
knows its fate. (Anderson 2nd Update. See also Anderson Wood)

TO COME: Anderson Wrap, Anderson Timeline



BANGKOK - A 36-year-old Australian has avoided the death penalty and been sentenced
to life imprisonment for trying to smuggle heroin to Australia from Thailand. (Thai Hood)

Thai Hood Wrap to come



CANBERRA - Motorcycle club members are taking their fight against tough new anti-bikie
laws to Canberra on Wednesday. (Bikies)

Bikies Wrap to come



SYDNEY - A man who murdered his wife and nine-year-old stepdaughter and threw their
bodies off a cliff was a possessive, controlling and evil husband, a court has heard.

(Bodies)

Bodies Wrap to come



NEWCASTLE - The sister of a girl who was starved to death by their parents has told
the NSW Supreme Court she feared for the future of herself and her sisters after their
sibling's death. (Starve)

Starve Wrap to come



MELBOURNE - A stripper accused of raping the best man at a bucks party has been found
not guilty of the charge in a Melbourne court. (Naggs)

Naggs Wrap to come



SYDNEY - David Jones Ltd says fourth quarter sales rose 0.6 per cent and it continues
to look forward to an eight to 12 per cent rise in full year profit. (David Jones)

David Jones Wrap to come



LEEDS - Australia not only face the galling prospect of losing the Ashes in this week's
fourth Test at Headingley but they could also surrender their long-held No.1 world ranking.

(Cricket Aust Wrap)

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