HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, April 20

AAP General News (Australia)
04-20-2001
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, April 20



CANBERRA - Ansett today received a last-minute reprieve on a threat to shut it down
over safety problems by promising to totally overhaul its maintenance and management practices.

(Ansett Nightlead)



MELBOURNE - A Victorian man missing for more than five weeks in Tasmania's rugged south-west
wilderness was today found alive by bushwalkers, and was tonight being treated in hospital.

(Bushwalker Found. N/L to come.)



BRISBANE - A high profile fashion retailer ordered its staff not to sell clothes to
Pauline Hanson because it feared for its image. (Hanson Cue Second Nightlead (pix available)



ADELAIDE - Construction of the Alice Springs to Darwin railway is set to begin within
weeks after financial backing was finalised today. (Railway Nightlead)



CANBERRA - Prime Minister John Howard and his Industry Minister today attacked a poll
which found strong support for Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.

(Kyoto Nightlead)



PERTH - A nurse said today she could not remember what treatment she gave Lang Hancock
in the days before he died, but could recall watching Rose Porteous kiss his ulcerated
mouth in a "showy" display. (Hancock Nightlead)



SYDNEY - New South Wales Premier Bob Carr and his education minister today buckled
under pressure and apologised to the family at the centre of the school massacre story.

(Massacre Nightlead)



SYDNEY - Staff at Sydney's Lucas Heights nuclear facility may have been exposed to
a radiation leak, a nuclear safety agency said today. (Lucas)



MELBOURNE - ANZ Bank's customer charter plans received enthusiastic endorsement from
pensioners and consumer representatives today amid calls for other major banks to follow
suit. (ANZ Nightlead (with factbox))



PERTH - Shares in takeover target Woodside Petroleum Ltd surged almost 1.5 per cent
higher today on the expectation Treasurer Peter Costello will give a green light to Royal
Dutch/Shell's $10 billion play for the oil and gas major. (Woodside)



SYDNEY - Anti-siphoning laws are restricting what sport Australians can see on television,
pay TV provider Foxtel said today. (Siphon Foxtel )



BANGALORE - Indian cricket officials today said the disappearance of five Indian cricketers
in Australia "stinks" of an immigration scandal. (Academy India )



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