Highights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, Dec 192011

AAP General News (Australia)
12-19-2011
Highights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, Dec 192011
Highlights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, Dec 192011.

BLITAR, EAST JAVA - Dawood Waladbegi shakes and sobs, his heart broken as he reels
in anguish at the prospect that he may never again see his wife and two young children.

(Indon Ship Wrap (pics, video available) See also Indon Ship UN

CANBERRA - The federal government is defending its asylum-seeker policy while insisting
the sinking of a ship in Indonesian waters shouldn't be used as a political football.

(Indon Ship Aust Wrap) See also Indon Ship Rudd, Indon Ship Greens

SYDNEY - Authorities failed in their duty of care to three detainees who took their
own lives during a three-month period at Sydney's Villawood Immigration Detention Centre,
a NSW coroner says. (Legal: Villawood Wrap)

CANBERRA - Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has urged calm and restraint by all governments,
including North Korea, after the death of its leader Kim Jong-Il. (Korea Kim Rudd)

SYDNEY - The long-running dispute between Qantas and its engineers has ended with both
sides saying they are happy with the outcome. (Qantas Wrap) See also Qantas Joyce.

MELBOURNE - The family of a Melbourne woman leading a class action against the German
inventor of pregnancy drug thalidomide has urged the company not to delay her claim. (Legal:
Thalidomide Wrap (with pix and video)

PORT MORESBY - Papua New Guinea's political crisis appears to have ended, with the
nation's civil service, armed forces and newly restored governor-general all lining up
behind Prime Minister Peter O'Neill. (PNG Govt, with Timeline)

MELBOURNE - Woodside Petroleum denies it is having doubts about building a gas processing
plant in Western Australia's north. (Woodside Wrap) on finance wire

PERTH - West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says he's confident a $30 billion gas
hub will go ahead in the Kimberley despite Woodside Petroleum seeking to delay a decision
on investment. (Browse Barnett Update) See also Burrup.

BROWSE Wrap to come

DARWIN - An animal behaviour expert says recent research about dingoes would probably
strengthen the case for showing a dingo took Azaria Chamberlain. (Azaria)

CANBERRA - Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says the entry of global mobile telecommunications
company Vodafone into the local fixed-line phone market underpins the government's national
broadband network. (NBN)

SYDNEY- Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, wants to go to the High Court to
try to keep secret details of a legal battle with her three children over their multi-billion
dollar family trust. (Legal Rinehart)

FINANCE

SYDNEY - Retail shares have taken a pounding as a profit warning from surfwear giant
Billabong International raised fears that what was already expected to be a difficult
Christmas could prove even worse. (Billabong Wrap)

SYDNEY - Four out of five Australians are worried about their ability to meet future
debt repayments, a survey shows. (Debt)

SPORT

CANBERRA - India struggled on day one of their practice match in Canberra, but Doug
Bollinger failed to take a wicket for the Chairman's XI in his bid to earn a Test recall
on Boxing Day. (Cri India Sumps Update) Wrap to come

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