HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, April 16 = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-16-2010
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, April 16 = 2

BRISBANE - A new generation of flight simulators developed in Australia will be introduced
at a major aviation training conference in Florida this month. (Simulator)



CANBERRA - Audiences will have an extended opportunity to see the nation's most popular
art exhibition in Canberra this weekend. (Masterpieces)



CANBERRA - A family-owned organic meat business from country NSW is among 140 Australian
producers on a mission to carve a bigger slice of the multi-billion dollar South-East
Asian market. (Trade Aust)



CANBERRA - Australia's latest Victoria Cross winner Trooper Mark Donaldson has presented
the original citation for his VC to the Australian War Memorial. (Donaldson )



CANBERRA - The United States is set to provide key combat units to support Australian
troops as the Dutch withdraw from Oruzgan province, Defence head Air Chief Marshal Angus
Houston says. (Afghan Aust )



SYDNEY - The federal government should not increase funds to the five per cent of Australian
schools already well resourced, says a former education policy adviser. (Review McMorrow)



SYDNEY - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced his son Nick is engaged to be married.

(Rudd Engagement)



SYDNEY - Household bills in NSW are set to rise even further, with plans to slug gas
customers with increases of up to 17 per cent over three years. (Gas. Update to come)



SYDNEY - A paramedic repeatedly told his girlfriend he loved her at a time when, unknown
to her, he had become engaged to a wealthy widow, a court has been told. (Campbell. Wrap
to come)



MELBOURNE - A juror and his boss could be charged after he failed to turn up the start
of a murder trial because of work reasons. (Juror)



MELBOURNE - A convicted killer who escaped from a Victorian prison has been caught
in Adelaide. (Prisoner)



MELBOURNE - Two Melbourne teenagers are living lives of prostitution, drug addiction
and rampant theft while staying as a de facto couple in government-funded care, youth
worker Les Twentyman says. (Youths)



MELBOURNE - A convicted killer who escaped from a Victorian prison has been caught
in Adelaide. (Prisoner)



TOWNSVILLE - The captain of a bulk carrier and two of his officers have been fined
more than $200,000 for taking a short cut through the Great Barrier Reef. (Carrier Mimosa
Wrap)



BRISBANE - A drink-driver who killed Cathy Freeman's brother when she crashed into
his parked truck has lost an appeal against her seven-year sentence. (Blackaby)



BRISBANE - Health Minister Paul Lucas can't guarantee Queensland Health staff will
be paid properly next week, as experts are flown in from Canada to fix a payroll bungle.

(Payroll)



TOWNSVILLE - A new outbreak of dengue fever has hit Townsville. (Dengue. Wrap to come)



BRISBANE - The family of fallen SAS soldier Kenneth Hudson have laid him to rest, 44
years after he went missing in action in Borneo. (Hudwon, pix available)



ADELAIDE - A Sydney gay activist has had a complaint against a South Australian government
minister rejected despite warning the minister's comments could incite a gay-hate murder.

(Gay SA)



ADELAIDE - A mother of two has denied murdering her four-year-old son and trying to
kill his older brother. (Woman )



ADELAIDE - South Australia's parched lower lakes are showing signs of recovery because
of increased water flows down the Murray, the state government says. (Murray SA )



PERTH - A Perth taxi driver who claimed he might have been sleepwalking when he kicked
his parents to death with steel-capped boots has been given two life sentences. (Silich
Wrap)



PERTH - Handguns are a necessary "tool of trade" for pastoralists and their use should
be allowed to continue, a West Australian farm lobby group says. (Handguns)



DARWIN - An 11-year-old girl whose mangled body was found by authorities 24 hours after
swimming with her friends in a waterhole was taken by a crocodile, the NT coroner has
found. (Crocodile)



DARWIN - Five men have pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of an Aboriginal trainee
ranger in Alice Springs. (Ryder Update)

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