Highlights of the AAP National wire at 20:15 =2 Sydney

AAP General News (Australia)
04-27-1999
Highlights of the AAP National wire at 20:15 =2 Sydney

CANBERRA - The man accused of Australia's biggest letter-bombing campaign today admitted
posting bombs to 28 tax and human rights officials but said they would not have hurt anyone.
(DUNSTAN NIGHTLEAD)



CANBERRA - Australia's spy catchers today revealed plans to go after spies and terrorists
through their computers, financial transactions and tax records. (ASIO)



CANBERRA - The federal government should turn Australia's industrial watchdog into a
voluntary advisory service, controversial economist Des Moore proposed today. (INDUSTRIAL)



CANBERRA - Outspoken federal Labor MP Mark Latham has lashed out at unions as being too big
and bureaucratic, warning they could die out within 40 years unless they cut back to a
workplace level. (UNIONS)



CANBERRA - Domestic travel is emerging as a saviour for Australia's battered tourism
industry, pumping an estimated $43 billion a year into a sector hard hit by Asia's financial
crisis. (VISITORS)



CANBERRA - The Jabiluka uranium mine approval is to be investigated by a senate committee.
(JABILUKA INQUIRY)



BANGKOK - A 44-year-old Queensland man being held in a notorious Burmese jail will face a
criminal court again tomorrow after his arrested mid-February on drugs charges. (BURMA AUST
LEAD)



KIUNGA, Western Province - Papua New Guinea disaster authorities planned to start moving
rice, flour and cooking oil to more than 15,000 villagers in the flooded Lake Murray district
of the Western Province today. (PNG FLOODS N/L)



HOBART - Australians will tomorrow mark the third anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre
as last week's school shootings in Colorado refocus attention on gun laws. (ARTHUR
ANNIVERSARY)



SYDNEY - A teenage labourer almost broke down today as he pleaded guilty to murdering
policeman Peter Forsyth, who was stabbed last year in inner Sydney. (HEARNE NIGHTLEAD)



SYDNEY - A man stabbed his estranged lover to death in the belief that he had to save the
world from her because she was evil, a court heard today. (SWIMMER)



SYDNEY - Australian workers are receiving lower wage rises through enterprise bargaining,
according to the latest study of major new federal agreements by HSBC Australia. (WAGES HSBC)



SYDNEY - If you're an Australian woman aged 25 to 34, married with children and live in the
country, you should be a picture of happiness. (WOMEN SURVEY)



SYDNEY - A rusty rudder washed up on a Newcastle beach at the weekend is believed to be
from a 100 year-old shipwreck, a maritime archaeologist said today. (RUDDER)



SYDNEY - More than one million chickens being slaughtered after an outbreak of Newcastle
disease are being buried in an abandoned quarry, the NSW Department of Agriculture said today.
(NEWCASTLE)



MELBOURNE - A 33-year-old man was shot dead during a domestic dispute in Melbourne's west
today. (SHOT LEAD)



BRISBANE - The army tomorrow will join the search for missing Rockhampton schoolgirl Keyra
Steinhardt, who has not been seen since allegedly abducted on her way home from school last
Thursday. (SCHOOLGIRL 2ND N/L)



BRISBANE - The National Party today refused to support One Nation legislation that proposes
to significantly water down Queensland's gun laws. (GUNS QLD)

ADELAIDE - New York-style zero tolerance policing was not a miracle cure for crime and
should not be widely applied in Australia, South Australian Attorney-General Trevor Griffin
said today. (ZERO)



ADELAIDE - Children should start to learn about drugs from as young as five years of age, a
key adviser to the British government said today. (DRUGS)



PERTH - Businesses were today urged to make sure their security systems would not be
affected by the Y2K bug, after a warning it could send alarms and security doors haywire. (Y2K
ALARMS)



DARWIN - Construction of the $1 billion Adelaide to Darwin railway starting early next year
is central to the Northern Territory budget handed down today. (NT BUDGET)



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