HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Aug 6

AAP General News (Australia)
08-06-2004
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Aug 6

CANBERRA - The High Court today upheld the government's tough immigration detention
laws in the two cases of people refused political asylum in Australia. (Asylum. Nightlead
to come.)

MELBOURNE - International tennis coach Gavin Maxwell Hopper was today jailed for three
and a half years over a sexual relationship with a schoolgirl at Melbourne's Wesley College
19 years ago. (Hopper. Nightlead and Backgrounder to come.)

CANBERRA - The government appears closer to agreement with Labor over the free trade
deadlock with Prime Minister John Howard declaring he would consider the proposed opposition
amendment. (Trade US Howard. N/L to come. See also Trade US Backgrounder)

CANBERRA - Labor today promised to boost services which will ensure wages are paid
to employees who are legally owed them. (Workplace. N/L to come. See also Jobs Labor.)

APIA, Samoa - The Pacific region was moving ahead and Australia was willing to help
its island neighbours, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said today. (Forum Aust to
come. See also Forum Nauru, Forum Solomons to come)

HOBART - Tasmania's opposition has threatened to withdraw its support for the state's
Governor Richard Butler amid a string of staff resignations at Government House in Hobart.

(Butler. Seeking N/L)

CANBERRA - Defence chief General Peter Cosgrove today strongly rejected allegations
officers had subverted processes in the military justice system, labelling the claims
a slur. (Defence)

SYDNEY - The people most at risk of heart attacks knew the least about how to recognise
the signs of cardiac arrest or what to do when a heart attack occurred, new research has
found. (Cardiac)

SYDNEY - The discovery of tiny proteins produced by the immune systems of mice could
help in the fight against bioterrorism, Canberra scientists said today. (Pox)

SYDNEY - A commissioner today said there was nothing to suggest that James Hardie Industries
had deliberately set out to short-change asbestos victims when it separated itself from
its asbestos liabilities. (James Hardie. See also Hardie Costello. Hardie N/L to come.)

SYDNEY - French life insurance giant AXA SA has proposed a $3.1 billion bid to acquire
the minority shareholding in Australia's second biggest life insurer, Axa Asia Pacific
Holdings Ltd. (AXA. N/L to come.)

ZURICH - Jana Pittman has found a secret weapon to help in her wavering Olympic preparations.

(Oly Aths Aust Nightlead)

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