HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Feb 13 = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-13-2009
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Feb 13 = 2

SYDNEY - Friday the 13th might be unlucky for some, but who cares if your luck's in
the very next day - Valentine's Day? (Valentines Wrap)



SYDNEY - Comedian turned talk show host Andrew Denton is returning to his mischievous
ways in search of a new generation of irreverent TV talent. (Denton)



CANBERRA - The federal government received a brutal reminder in the Senate this week.

(Senate View)



CANBERRA - Non-government senators are querying why the Rudd government has ordered
a parliamentary inquiry into its planned emissions trading scheme (ETS). (Climate Senators)



CANBERRA - The current president of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission
(AIRC) will head up the federal government's new industrial umpire, Fair Work Australia.

(Workplace)



SYDNEY - Jeffrey Gilham's wife has broken down while telling a court about her wonderful
marriage and says she has no doubt he is innocent of murdering his parents in 1993. (Gilham
Update. Wrap to come)



SYDNEY - A suspicious explosion and fire has damaged a northwestern Sydney home. (Explosion.

Outwatching further)



SYDNEY - Raiders have blown up an ATM in Sydney's southwest, the third attack in less
than a week. (ATM)



SYDNEY - A 51-year-old man has been charged with farming and supplying cannabis after
police found more than 1,500 plants on the NSW north coast. (Danbury)



MELBOURNE - A Victorian woman who killed her husband two days after they married has
been jailed for nine years. (Vandergulik)



BRISBANE - The passage of the federal government's $42 billion economic stimulus package
could trigger an early Queensland election, an academic says. (Poll Qld)



BRISBANE - Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser says he won't apologise to billionaire
Clive Palmer before the deadline he's set to start legal action. (Palmer)



BRISBANE - Rail strikes planned for next week may be called off after unions agreed
to talks with Queensland Rail (QR) before the industrial umpire. (Trains Update. Wrap
to come)



BRISBANE - Another large crocodile in far north Queensland is being checked for human
remains, after being trapped not far from where a boy disappeared in the Daintree River
last weekend. (Crocodile)



BRISBANE - Brisbane's dams have had their best rain for a year and there's more on
the way. (Dams)



HOBART - Harry's back - the maverick former Tasmanian Labor MP Harry Quick has joined
the Greens and has support to be one of their state upper-house candidates in a May election.

(Quick)



DARWIN - Northern Territory residents are on alert for a possible outbreak of measles
after a case was confirmed in Darwin. (Measles Update )



DARWIN - Police are investigating the death of a young man in Darwin. (Moudlen)

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