National Newslist for Wednesday, April 30 2008

AAP General News (Australia)
04-30-2008
National Newslist for Wednesday, April 30 2008
Good Morning News Editors and Chiefs of Staff
AAP's National Newslist for today (not for publication):
This is a guide only and stories are subject to change.

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GAY
- AG Robert McClelland announces overhaul of federal laws to remove same-sex discrimination.

Presser at 0945
- McClelland says there will be losers as well as winners.

- The federal opposition says it supports plan in principle but opposes gay marriage,
gay adoption, gay IVF
- ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbel says it is unlikely the federal government will support
territory's push to recognise same-sex unions

COURTS:
SYDNEY
- Mercedes Corby defamation case against Channel Seven etc. continues.

- Robert Agius expected in Central Local Court to be charged over $100m tax evasion scheme
MELBOURNE
- Expected appearance of man arrested over shooting murder of Frankston woman
- Trial continues for Evangelos Goussis, charged with murder of Lewis Moran
- Trial of 12 men accused facing various terrorism related charges continues
- Trial continues for man accused of stabbing a train passenger to death
ADELAIDE
- Trial continues for a man charged with sex offences involving a girl he met on a vampires website.

PERTH
- 21yo man in court over cricket bat bashing death of Yalgoo farmer Bill Rowe.

CANBERRA
- Trial of former ACT Tenants Association president accused of stabbing his neighbour to death

ENTERTAINMENT:
- Covering Australian Fashion Week shows
- NZ fashion designer Kate Sylvester apologises over use of war medals in parade
- Interview with US rapper Eve ahead of her Australian tour
- Interview with Big Brother Big Mouth host Rebecca Wilson
- New Australian-made daily soap - Out of the Blue - debuts in UK; designed to replace
Neighbours in BBC's lineup

MEDICAL:
- Cannabis use is to blame for higher rates of cigarette addiction in alternative communities,
Australian research shows.

- Coverage from the Aboriginal Health Research conference in Sydney.

TECH:
- Story on electronic stethoscope

CANBERRA:
- Haneef inquiry opens today with preliminary one-hour hearing. Scheduled for 1400; government
will consider giving it more powers
- Senate committee inquiry into wheat export laws due to report today
- Treasury Secretary Ken Henry says budget one of the hardest
- Reserve Bank releases monthly credit report for March
- Media Briefing ICAA Deloitte Tax Report
- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd addresses Public Service Commission
- Deputy PM Julia Gillard launches 2008 National Schools Constitutional Convention
- Executive Director Kimberley Land Council addresses National Press Club
- ACCC inquiry into grocery prices public hearing
- Government announces restoration of CDEP to 30 Aboriginal communities in NT
- Figures show that for the first time the stipend rate for Australian Postgraduate Awards
will slip below the poverty line by the end of 2008
- A new tailored visa for the crews of superyachts will provide a boost to the tourism industry
- More than 15,000 new residential blocks will be released during the next five years

SYDNEY:
- Australian journalist injured, another badly shaken in a suicide bombing that killed
15 people in Afghanistan
- Chinese officials ban on Australian shipments of food for the Beijing Olympics; Coastes
says issue shouldn't be problem
- Iemma's approval rating dives to 28 points
- Two BASE jumpers charges after one landed on a road in front of a patrolling police car
- Federal Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese to announce "first plank" of government
plan for transport and infrastructure in major cities
- Senate committee hearing on sexualisation of children in the media. (09.45)
- Inquiry into NSW hospitals sitting at St Vincents Hospital. (09.00)

MELBOURNE:
- 60yo man arrested over shooting murder of Tracey Greenbury; still to be charged; father
says he and his wife would be emotionally devastated if they saw accused in court
- Vic Premier John Brumby to make green coal announcement at Loy Yang power station.

- Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy opens Primus call centre.

- Hundreds of Melbourne taxi drivers block major city intersection demanding better safety
after one of their own was critically injured in a stabbing; more to come

BRISBANE:
- Fitzgibbon visits wounded soldiers in Afghanistan
- Law firm preparing class action on equine influenza outbreak
- Details and timing of an inquest into the deaths of four skydivers and their pilot in
2006 to be announced today
- State parliament sitting.

- Update on Ipswich homes damaged by underground coal mines.

- Buderim Ginger AGM.

ADELAIDE
- South Australian Premier Mike Rann to open major mining conference.

PERTH:
- chasing more on Buswell.

SPORT:
AFL
MELBOURNE - Media conference with Carlton coach Brett Ratten, 1000, Princes Park
MELBOURNE - AFL weekly column.

SYDNEY - Swans news from training, interviews.

LEAGUE
SYDNEY - Wrap of NRL news
SYDNEY - NRL Judiciary sits from 1800
WOLLONGONG - News from City and Country teams as they continue to train for Friday's night's
representative match.

WOLLONGONG - NSW Country Team of the Century to be announced tonight.

RUGBY
SYDNEY - Waratahs name team to play Bulls ahead of departure for South Africa on Thursday.

SPORTS DOPING
SYDNEY - Presser for WADA president John Fahey and director general David Howman, 1130,
ahead of two-day symposium in Sydney in countdown to Beijing Olympics.

OLYMPICS
SYDNEY - Several athletes in Sydney's Martin Place 0700-0900 to mark 100 days to go to
Beijing Olympics, followed with 1000 presser with AOC chief John Coates.

MELBOURNE - Runner Tamsyn Lewis in Melbourne's Bourke St Arcade to mark 100 days to go
to Beijing Olympics, 1100

HOCKEY
DARWIN - Australia v China in 4-Nations men's tournament, 1930AEST

RACING
SYDNEY - Review Wednesday's AJC Australian Oaks.

SYDNEY - Throw forward to group One racing at Randwick on Saturday.

MELBOURNE - Review Wangoom Handicap fixture at Warrnambool on Wednesday.

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