HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, April 8

AAP General News (Australia)
04-08-2007
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, April 8

MELBOURNE - A courageous cabbie who risked his life to save a Victorian man from a
burning car wreck seconds before it exploded has been heralded a hero. (EXPLODED Nightlead)

MELBOURNE - A Victorian taxi driver was fleeced of his night's takings while he was
pulling an injured motorist from a wrecked car moments before it exploded. (EXPLODED)

ANZAC

CANBERRA - The Seven Network says it did not ask for an Anzac Day dawn service in Vietnam
to be held early to take advantage of peak television ratings in Australia. (ANZAC)

CANBERRA, April 8 AAP - Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd says reports he wanted an Anzac
Day dawn service held early so he could commemorate the occasion on live TV are "absolutely
false". (ANZAC RUDD)

ANZAC Nightlead to come

WORKPLACE

CANBERRA - Attorney General Philip Ruddock says he has never heard of a so-called secret
government plan to soften controversial industrial relations reforms. (WORKPLACE SCHEME)

CANBERRA, April 8 AAP - The federal government has denied the existence of a secret
plan to soften its controversial Work Choices laws in the lead-up to the election. (WORKPLACE
Nightlead)

TOLL

PERTH - Western Australia recorded its first Easter road deaths, with two men killed
in separate accidents on the state's roads overnight. (TOLL WA)

SYDNEY - The Easter road toll has risen to 16, with Western Australia recording its
first deaths this long weekend. (TOLL NATIONAL)

TOLL NATIONAL Nightlead to come

EASTER

BRISBANE - Churches have been inundated and tens of thousands have packed into a gospel
music festival as Christians celebrate their faith in Queensland today. (EASTER QLD)

PERTH - West Australians have been urged to look at the real political drama behind
the Easter story and launch an offensive for love. (EASTER WA)

EASTER NSW, EASTER VIC, EASTER Nightlead to come

CANBERRA - David Hicks will be monitored by Australian authorities after he is released
from prison, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says. (HICKS RUDDOCK)

CANBERRA - Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says the federal government has not decided
who will replace Pru Goward as sex discrimination commissioner. (ARNDT RUDDOCK)

SYDNEY, April 7 AAP - Sex therapist Bettina Arndt has been tipped as the favourite
to replace newly-elected NSW MP Pru Goward as federal sex-discrimination commissioner.

(ARNDT)

CANBERRA - The states are likely to allow the use of surrogate mothers as a result
of moves to adopt uniform national legislation, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says.

(SURROGACY)

SHEIK

SYDNEY - An Islamic group does not have the authority to sack controversial muslim
leader Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali from the position of mufti, his friend Keysar Trad says.

(SHEIK TRAD)

SYDNEY - Controversial Muslim cleric Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali is still the mufti, the
Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) says. (SHEIK AFIC)

SHEIK Nightlead to come

SYDNEY, April 8 AAP - About 50 protesters have rallied outside the Prime Minister's
Sydney residence to speak against the Howard government's policies on war, climate change,
immigration and industrial relations. (VILLAWOOD)

VILLAWOOD Nightlead

SYDNEY - Environmental activists have chained themselves to machinery and invaded the
office of a central-western NSW mining site, halting its operations. (COWAL)

SYDNEY - Car-jackers threatened a young driver with a gun before stealing his vehicle
in an underground car park in inner Sydney early today. (CARJACK)

SYDNEY - A man has been remanded in custody after being charged with murdering a 72-year-old
man in inner Sydney. (LEUNG, Eds note: KE changed from BODY)

HOBART, April 8 AAP - Unfavourable weather has stopped British yachtsman Tony Bullimore
from leaving Tasmania to start his solo round-the-world record attempt. (BULLIMORE)

BRISBANE - A 57-year-old man has been charged with the indecent assault of a 16-year-old
boy at a McDonald's restaurant in Brisbane. (GRAB)

MELBOURNE - Another shot is believed to have been fired in Melbourne's simmering bikie
war with a molotov cocktail thrown at a property owned by the Rebels Motorcycle Club (REBELS)

BRISBANE - A 22-year-old man has been charged over a stabbing at a party in central
Queensland. (STAB)

BRISBANE - Police have charged a 45-year-old Inala man with murder after a man died
in hospital yesterday from injuries received in an alleged attack in January. (INJURIES
)

SYDNEY - A man was arrested trying to escape in a taxi after an alleged armed robbery
attempt in Sydney's west early today, police said. (TAXI)

SYDNEY - A man was forced to withdraw money from an ATM at knife point during an alleged
hold-up in Sydney's east. (KNIVES)

SYDNEY - A teenager has been arrested after a rock was thrown through the windscreen
of a bus in southern Sydney, injuring the driver and a passenger. (BUS)

CANBERRA - An Australian university is offering a PhD research scholarship in fast
bowling to help identify the next Glenn McGrath. (CRICKET UNI)

FINANCE

MELBOURNE - Wesfarmers Ltd is not planning to sell off any of its businesses, should
its efforts to buy Australia's second biggest retailer Coles Group Ltd come to fruition.

(WESFARMERS)

MELBOURNE - Advertisers are concerned about how the new Australian media ownership
laws and any subsequent consolidation will affect pricing and access, according to one
of the country's key media buyers. (MEDIA)

SYDNEY - The success of Earth Hour in Sydney last month has inspired communities across
the nation to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but the jury is still out on the economic
benefits. (CLIMATE ECONOMY)

SYDNEY - Real estate expert John Kenny is sitting inside one of the Colliers International
meeting rooms in a Sydney sky-rise office tower thinking back to his sister's wedding.

(COLLIERS KENNY)

MELBOURNE - Ford Australia plans to bring in more new models from Europe, as larger
and more powerful fuel-guzzling cars fall out of favour with local motorists. (FORD AUSTRALIA)

MELBOURNE - Markets Preview (MARKETS PREVIEW)

SPORT

GOLF MASTERS

AUGUSTA, Georgia - Australian Stuart Appleby butchered the 17th hole but will still
take a one-shot lead into the final round at the 71st Masters. (GOLF MASTERS Daylead)

AUGUSTA, Georgia - If Stuart Appleby does not win the Masters tomorrow, he will look
back at one disastrous hole as the place where it all started to go wrong. (GOLD MASTERS
Nightlead)

ADELAIDE - Australia's foray into the knock-out rounds of the Adelaide Sevens was abruptly
ended by Samoa today, in a repeat of their result in Hong Kong last week. (RUGBY SEVENS
Lead)

SYDNEY - His brother won a Melbourne Cup but Old Mystique's trainer Bede Murray will
be more than happy if the gelding can win the Country Cup at Randwick tomorrow. (RANDWICK
COUNTRY)

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