HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, Dec 5

AAP General News (Australia)
12-05-2008
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, Dec 5

MAJOR STORIES MOVED SINCE THE 14:45 NATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS



BRISBANE - The receiver for ABC Learning has guaranteed to find places for every child
in the company's care, but the parents of 30,000 kids are no closer to knowing if their
centres will close. (ABC Wrap)



SYDNEY - Two Chilean Navy ships are powering through the southern oceans to help 122
people, including 11 Australians, aboard a cruise ship that is taking on water after running
aground in Antarctic waters. (Antartica Ship Wrap)



CANBERRA - Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has been embarrassed by a collapse of
party discipline as six opposition senators voted against the coalition's wishes in the
Senate early on Friday. (Funds Wrap)



CANBERRA - A $2 billion lifeline for car dealers struck between the federal government
and the country's major banks will save jobs, the automotive industry says. (Cars Wrap)



MELBOURNE - The big management shakeout in the battered Australian media sector continued
on Friday, with Fairfax Media Ltd chief executive David Kirk quitting his post. (Fairfax
Wrap (with factbox))

CANBERRA - Banks must quickly pass on this week's official interest rate cut in full,
with thousands of jobs threatened by an accelerating slowdown in the construction industry,
the federal opposition says. (Economy Wrap)



BRISBANE - Strains of Advance Australia Fair rang out across an Islamic school on Friday,
as it responded to claims it had banned students from singing the national anthem. (Anthem
Wrap)



MELBOURNE - Father's Day killer Robert Farquharson is being sued by his ex-wife for
unspecified damages over the drowning deaths of their three children. (Farquharson Wrap
)

MELBOURNE - Gay men will be able to commission a baby via a surrogate mother under
new Victorian laws that have angered the Christian lobby. (Reproductive Wrap)



SYDNEY - Adam Patrick Owens says he fulfilled a 20-year-long wish when he stabbed his
elderly mother to death in her NSW south coast home, and if he had his time over, he would
do it all again. (Owens Wrap (Pix Available)

SYDNEY - Convicted murderer Bassam Hamzy, the mastermind of an alleged drug-trafficking
syndicate coordinated from his NSW jail cell, has been charged with 15 new offences. (Trafficking
Update)



SYDNEY - The NSW government's decision to charge private hospitals for blood supplies
will be a cost ultimately borne by patients, the opposition says. (Blood Wrap)



PERTH - A woman who killed her infant son by jumping with him from the eighth floor
of a city apartment block has walked free after being convicted of manslaughter. (Topham)



JAKARTA - A man suspected of leading a major operation to smuggle people to Australia
will be charged with forgery, deception and immigration offences, Indonesian police say.



CANBERRA - Joe Hockey exhorted his enemies to share the love because, "quite frankly,
sharing the love is not a bad thing". (Newscope Federal)

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