National Newslist for Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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04-06-2010
National Newslist for Tuesday, April 6, 2010
AAP's National Newslist for Tuesday (not for publication). This is a guide only and stories
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TOP STORIES
TURNBULL
- Malcolm Turnbull expected to announce he's quitting politics.

CARRIER
- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to fly over stricken vessel
- Qld govt says oil leaked from from carrier has been dispersed
- Aust Greens leader Bob Brown calls for crackdown on foreign ships using the Great Barrier
Reef as a shipping shortcut. Brown presser at 1100 AEST
- Federal opposition (Warren Truss) backs calls to expand monitoring requirements for
ships travelling in restricted areas
- Marine Safety Queensland chief Patrick Quirk says there will be an investigation into
foreign ships taking shortcut `rat runs' in Australian
- There's still a risk that the ship grounded in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park could
break up, maritime officials say.

- Rockhampton mayor Brad Carter is praying for fine weather as salvage experts work to
refloat a stricken coal carrier.

- More to come.

POPULATION
- More infrastructure is needed in Australian cities to ensure the next generation has
a better standard of living, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.

- Federal govt accuses Abbott of flip-flopping on the issue of population.

- Australian Industry Group calls opposition's claim Aust's immigration levels are out
of control ridiculous.

- Outwatching for more.

RATES
- RBA holds its monthly board meeting. Rate decision 1430 AEST
- Retailers call on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to keep interest rates low.

TOLL
- Outwatching for more on Easter road toll fatality numbers, political/police reax. On merit.


COURTS
SYDNEY
- Outwatching for verdict in trial of Percy Small and Matthew Reynolds over fatal Sydney
Harbour boat crash.

BRISBANE
- Jayant Patel manslaughter case continues.

MELBOURNE
- Court appearance for woman charged over the wounding of a man found shot in the kneecap
beside a freeway in Melbourne's northwest.

- Murder committal continues for Judy Moran and co-accused, Melbourne Magistrates Court.

PERTH
- Trial of Joseph Micalizzi and Andrew Santos accused of flying into WA drugs with an
estimated street value of $77 million to WA, one of the state's biggest drug hauls.

CANBERRA
- Cancer patients living in far-north Queensland will receive treatment closer to home
from mid next year, the federal government says.

- Consular officials assisting the family of an Australian man found dead in an apartment
in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. Outwatching for more.

- Australian women who go under the knife often have unrealistic expectations of cosmetic
surgery and the risks involved, a study shows.

SYDNEY
- NSW Premier Kristina Keneally and others to make police forensic science announcement (1230 AEST)
- Population growth in regional NSW over the next 25 years will boost the economy, NSW
Planning Minister Tony Kelly says. Kelly doorstop on local population projections to 2036
(1115 AEST).

- Owner of a ferris wheel could be prosecuted after one of its cars broke off and plunged
to the ground, injuring three girls.

- Governor-General Quentin Bryce to award Gloucester Cup to HMAS Newcastle (0930 AEST,
with pix, video)

MELBOURNE
- Vic opposition to formally release election promise for 1600 extra police over the next
four years; Vic govt, Police Assoc reax to come.

- Group opposed to duck shooing to dump rubbish on Vic parly steps.

- Vic govt to announce sponsorship/players for Australian Masters golf.

- Leaders of the church behind a graphic crucifixion re-enactment in Geelong on Easter
Saturday are meeting with police to complain about the way they were shut down.

- Man accused of assaulting his partner so seriously that she is fighting for her life
in hospital has handed himself in to police.


BRISBANE
- Outwatching on stricken vessel aground in Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

- Millions of locusts have descended on the central Queensland town of Longreach.

- Australian Greens call for creation of a National Resources Fund and resource rent tax
to secure revenue, infrastructure funding for Australia.

- Twelve women and children airlifted from flooded campsite in Queensland's northwest.

- Man suffers serious spinal, head injuries after his jet ski hit sandbar at mouth of
Noosa River.

ADELAIDE
- SA Liberal Party meets again to elect another deputy leader.

- A geothermal energy company strikes the environmentally friendly equivalent of oil in
SA's southeast, putting the federal government on track to meet its promised green energy
targets.

PERTH
- Checking on midday CEPU protest rally outside Telstra over enterprise agreement negotiations.

(On merit)

ENTERTAINMENT
- Interview with Sydney band Cassette Kids.

MEDICAL
- Queensland-based scientists are studying whether SPF30 sunscreen is powerful enough
or whether a new "super sunscreen" is needed to cut rates of skin cancer.

INTERNATIONAL
LOS ANGELES - An Australian man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old
girl in the Canadian province of Newfoundland.

AUCKLAND
- 24,000 rabbits, hares and other pests killed in the annual Easter Bunny Hunt in Otago.

- New Zealand's Easter road toll the worst in 16 years.

- Seeking: Details on Sir Edmund Hillary's ashes being sprinkled on the peak of Mt Everest
this week; Details from Pacific Islands Health Officers Conference in American Samoa;
Update from the President of Fiji's Olympic Committee regarding the nation's reinforced
ban from Commonwealth Games this year; Report into the sinking of Princess Ashika in Tonga.


FINANCE

ECONOMICS

Sydney - Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) monthly board meeting and monetary policy
decision at 1430 AEST

Sydney - ANZ job advertisements series for March



EQUITIES:

Sydney - The competition watchdog has extended its deadline for its probe into the
Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton joint venture in the Pilbera.

Adelaide - A geothermal energy company has struck the environmentally friendly equivalent
of oil in South Australia's southeast.



Also Stocks, Dollar and Finance Briefs to come.

SPORT
LEAGUE

BRISBANE - Darren Lockyer presser 1100AEST to announce his decision on his representative
future, Red Hill.

SYDNEY - Bulldogs recovery session

SYDNEY - NRL teams named for round 5.

AFL

MELBOURNE - Wrap of AFL news.

MELBOURNE - Essendon coach Matthew Knights presser in wake of big loss to Dockers.

MELBOURNE - St Kilda coach Ross Lyon presser.

RUGBY

SYDNEY - Australian Super 14 team news.

GOLF

AUGUSTA, Georgia - Reaction to Tiger Woods' press conference plus other news ahead
of the Masters starting Thursday.

AUGUSTA, Georgia - Tiger Woods took his first steps down the road to redemption on
Monday at the Masters, answering questions from reporters and playing his first public
round of golf in nearly five months. (GOlf Masters Woods 2nd UPdate) Wrap to come.

MELBOURNE - Australian Masters announcement, 1030, The Langham Melbourne.

SURFING

BELLS BEACH, Vic - Men's world tour event scheduled to continue.

BASKETBALL

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin - Milwaukee Bucks centre Andrew Bogut is scheduled to have surgery
two days after he broke his right hand, sprained his wrist and dislocated his elbow.

RACING

SYDNEY - Barrier draw for Saturday's AJC Australian Derby.

SYDNEY - Coverage of Easter Yearling Sale.

MELBOURNE - Looking ahead to racing at Flemington on Saturday.

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