AAP General News (Australia) back issues from August 2007:
FED: Home ownership unattainable dream - report
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 FED: Home ownership unattainable dream - report EDS: EMBARGOED UNTIL 0001 (AEST) WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2007 SYDNEY, Aug 1 AAP - Home ownership has become an unattainable dream for many low- to middle-income earners in ...
Fed: The Veronicas to host the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 Fed: The Veronicas to host the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards Eds: Embargoed until 0001 AEST, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 By Michael Gadd, National Entertainment Writer SYDNEY, Aug 1 AAP - Twin sister pop ...
Fed: Health warnings not on all cigarette packets - survey
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 Fed: Health warnings not on all cigarette packets - survey Eds: EMBARGOED until 0001 AEST, August 1, 2007 By Jane Bunce CANBERRA, Aug 1 AAP - Smokers are easily able to buy packets of cigarettes that ...
Fed: Hump days and lactivists-dictionary a snapshot of the time
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 Fed: Hump days and lactivists-dictionary a snapshot of the time EDS: Embargoed until 0001 (AEST) August 1, 2007 By Judy Skatssoon SYDNEY, Aug 1 AAP - No, a hump day isn't when you throw a sickie so you ...
Fed: Call for indigenous summit for Kimberley
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 Fed: Call for indigenous summit for Kimberley SYDNEY, August 1 AAP - Indigenous magistrate Sue Gordon, who chairs the Northern Territory intervention taskforce, says a summit is needed to address problems in WA's ...
NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney papers =2
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney papers =2 SYDNEY, Aug 1 AAP - The main stories in today's Sydney newspapers: THE AUSTRALIAN Page 1: Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews releases details of an internet-based ...
QLD: Main stories in today's Brisbane newspapers
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 QLD: Main stories in today's Brisbane newspapers BRISBANE, Aug 1 AAP - The main stories in today's Brisbane Courier-Mail: Page 1: An internet chat room conversation between Mohamed Haneef and his brother in India, ...
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers MELBOURNE, Aug 1 AAP - The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers: HERALD SUN Page 1: An internet chat between Mohamed Haneef and his brother in India led to ...
NT: Main stories in today's Darwin newspapers
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 NT: Main stories in today's Darwin newspapers DARWIN, Aug 1 AAP - The main stories in today's Northern Territory News: Page 1: A Qantas plane caught fire before take-off at Darwin airport but continued to Brisbane with a ...
What Australian newspapers say on Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 What Australian newspapers say on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 SYDNEY, Aug 1 AAP - Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews ended last week claiming he had been forced to argue his case against Mohamed Haneef with one hand tied behind ...
TAS: Main stories in today's Hobart newspapers
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 TAS: Main stories in today's Hobart newspapers HOBART, Aug 1 AAP - The main stories in today's Hobart Mercury: Page 1: Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews defended cancelling Mohamed Haneef's visa as he ...
Fed: Australians go into debt to boost their super
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 Fed: Australians go into debt to boost their super SYDNEY, Aug 1 AAP - Australia recorded its biggest-ever monthly jump in personal lending during June, as borrowers pumped the cash into their superannuation funds ahead of a ...
NSW: Government to announce shift away from coal as power source
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 NSW: Government to announce shift away from coal as power source SYDNEY, Aug 1 AAP - Gas has reportedly replaced coal as the preferred energy source for NSW's future major power stations. The NSW Government will announce ...
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers EDS: Reissuing to correct Page 2 fronter to say some migrants will have to pass an "integration test" sted "interrogation test". MELBOURNE, Aug 1 AAP - The ...
NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney papers =3
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney papers =3 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Page 1: Police and security agencies will be given new "sneak and peak" powers under laws to go before the federal parliament next week. Page ...
WA: Main stories in today's Perth newspapers
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 WA: Main stories in today's Perth newspapers PERTH, Aug 1 AAP - The main stories in today's Perth West Australian: Page 1: Mohamed Haneef's brother told the freed terror suspect to leave Australia quickly, days after one ...
Vic: Basketballer may get free throw at Labor seat
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 Vic: Basketballer may get free throw at Labor seat MELBOURNE, Aug 1 AAP - Basketball champion Andrew Gaze may get a free throw at a political career, with speculation he may replace outgoing Victorian deputy premier John ...
NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney papers =4
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney papers =4 THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW Page 1: Prime Minister John Howard has slammed the ALP's plan to give more power to the states, accusing Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd of ...
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2 THE AGE Page 1: Mohamed Haneef was warned by his brother to leave Australia quickly after the failed British bombings, according to details of an internet ...
Vic: Dams on the rise, but more rain needed
Aug 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-01-2007 Vic: Dams on the rise, but more rain needed MELBOURNE, Aug 1 AAP - More water has poured into Melbourne's parched reservoirs in the past five weeks than in any similar period since 1992, the city's water authority says. ...
Vic: Public to be told more about plane crash today
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Vic: Public to be told more about plane crash today Australian Transport Safety Bureau officials are today expected to reveal more details about Tuesday's plane crash north of Melbourne .. which claimed the lives of the ...
Fed: Labor panel to consider Quick's future
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed: Labor panel to consider Quick's future A Tasmanian Labor committee will discuss the fate of maverick federal backbencher HARRY QUICK today .. for campaigning against his preselected successor. Federal Labor leader ...
Fed: Abbott has more positions than Kama Sutra - Labor
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed: Abbott has more positions than Kama Sutra - Labor Labor's blasted Canberra's stance on hospital funding .. saying Federal Health Minister TONY ABBOTT has assumed more positions on hospital funding intervention than the ...
News Diary events for Friday, Aug 3, 2007
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 News Diary events for Friday, Aug 3, 2007 Good Morning News Editors and Chiefs of Staff Here is AAP's preliminary newslist for today Friday 3 August (not for publication). This is a guide only and stories, local times and ...
NSW: NSW bid for round of world powerboat championships
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: NSW bid for round of world powerboat championships Formula one powerboats could be tearing through the blue waters of Sydney harbour under a reported plan to bring the event to the New South Wales capital. Ports and ...
Events Diary for Friday, August 3, 2007
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Events Diary for Friday, August 3, 2007 EVENTS LISTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AND LOCAL TIME UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED: ADELAIDE No items listed BRISBANE No items listed ...
Vic: New ministry sworn in todays
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Vic: New ministry sworn in todays Victoria's new cabinet under Premier JOHN BRUMBY is sworn in today .. with department mergers already creating new portfolio combinations. Victorian kindergartens will be merged with the ...
Fed:APEC Coolum meeting ends later today
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed:APEC Coolum meeting ends later today Finance ministers from APEC's 21 economies wrap up this week's talks in Coolum on Queensland's Sunshine Coast later today. The meeting .. hosted by federal Treasurer PETER ...
Fed: Labor panel to consider Quick's future
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed: Labor panel to consider Quick's future CANBERRA, Aug 3 AAP - A Tasmanian Labor committee today will discuss the fate of maverick federal backbencher Harry Quick for campaigning against his preselected successor. ...
NSW: Iemma still hasn't achieved his goals after two years
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Iemma still hasn't achieved his goals after two years Opposition Leader BARRY O'FARRELL says NSW Premier MORRIS IEMMA still hasn't achieved the three main goals he set himself when he came to office two years ago. ...
Qld: Thousands expected to protest against council mergers
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Qld: Thousands expected to protest against council mergers Thousands of Noosa residents arrive in Brisbane this morning .. to protest against the government's planed mergers of Noosa .. Caloundra and Maroochy shires. ...
SA: Govt won't seek challenge to stolen generation ruling
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 SA: Govt won't seek challenge to stolen generation ruling South Australia's government won't seek an immediate challenge of a landmark court ruling .. awarding an Aboriginal man more than half a million dollars for being ...
NSW: Trad takes swipe at 2GB after defamation case succeeds
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Trad takes swipe at 2GB after defamation case succeeds Islamic community spokesman KEYSAR TRAD has questioned the way Sydney radio station 2GB reports news .. after winning a defamation case against the broadcaster. ...
Fed: ACOSS says Australia facing crisis in dental care
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed: ACOSS says Australia facing crisis in dental care The Australian Council of Social Service says Australia is facing a crisis in dental care. New research by ACOSS-backed activist forum AUSTRALIA FAIR .. shows nearly ...
TAS: Howard hospital plan may fall well short: Aird
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 TAS: Howard hospital plan may fall well short: Aird Tasmania's Treasurer is predicting Canberra's plans to underwrite a community-based takeover of a state-run hospital could cost up to one billion dollars over the next ...
Fed: Deregulate wages and pay with rising crime - US worker
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed: Deregulate wages and pay with rising crime - US worker A low-paid American who's visiting Australia .. says we're lucky to have a system that protects our wages. 40-year-old janitor ALLEN WHITE has been brought here ...
NSW: Funeral for couple killed in alleged street race crash
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Funeral for couple killed in alleged street race crash Friends and relatives will farewell an elderly couple today .. killed in an alleged high-speed street racing crash in western Sydney. JUDITH and ALAN HOWLE .....
Qld: Coast residents protest mergers in Brisbane
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Qld: Coast residents protest mergers in Brisbane BRISBANE, Aug 3 AAP - Thousands of Sunshine Coast residents are expected to be in Brisbane this morning for a vocal protest against the Queensland Government's forced council ...
NSW: Legal row prompts company to withdraw baby formulas
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Legal row prompts company to withdraw baby formulas A legal row has forced a New South Wales-wide withdrawal of Karicare baby and toddler formulas .. but its maker is assuring parents the move is not safety related. ...
Fed: APEC Coolum meeting ends later today
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed: APEC Coolum meeting ends later today COOLUM, Qld Aug 3 AAP - Finance ministers from APEC's 21 economies will end this week's talks in Coolum on Queensland's Sunshine Coast later today. The meeting, hosted by federal ...
Fed: New figures show poor state of nation's dental health
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed: New figures show poor state of nation's dental health Nearly half the population cannot afford basic preventative dental care .. and most people want Canberra to help meet the cost. A survey conducted by activist ...
WA: Main stories in today's The West Australian
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 WA: Main stories in today's The West Australian PERTH, Aug 3 AAP - The main stories in today's West Australian newspaper: Page 1: Doctors say WA's cannabis laws are a failure and have demanded an increase in fines and ...
NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW: Page 1: At least 35 councils have $25 million at risk as a result of the US debt crisis; Rio Tinto suffers fall in profits for first time in ...
What Australian newspapers say on Friday, August 3, 2007 =2
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 What Australian newspapers say on Friday, August 3, 2007 =2 The Canberra Times says at the behest of Prime Minister John Howard, the Commonwealth is shortly to take over the funding of a hospital in north-west Tasmania where ...
Vic: Hierarchy overruled grass roots members: report
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Vic: Hierarchy overruled grass roots members: report Liberal sources say the party hierarchy has overruled moves from grassroots members .. to run candidates in byelections for the seats of Williamstown and Albert Park .....
AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Breakfast, Aug 3
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Breakfast, Aug 3 Breakfast Round-Up: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AAP RTV FILE AT 0430 US Freeway Toll (MINNEAPOLIS) US authorities have lowered the death toll from an interstate bridge collapse ...
NSW: Man charged after guns and drugs seized
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Man charged after guns and drugs seized SYDNEY, Aug 3 AAP - A 24-year-old man has been charged after police seized guns and drugs from a home in Sydney's west. Police allegedly found a 12 gauge shotgun, a sawn-off ...
NSW: Man charged after guns and drugs seized
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Man charged after guns and drugs seized A 24-year-old man has been charged with drugs and firearms offences following a police raid in Sydney's west. Police allegedly found drugs .. including cannabis and ice .. a ...
NSW: Man charged with street racing on Sydney's Anzac Bridge
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Man charged with street racing on Sydney's Anzac Bridge A second man has been charged with street racing and had his licence suspended .. after allegedly driving at speeds of more than 160 kilometres an hour in a 60-k zone on ...
NSW: Woman critical after alleged hit and run incident
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Woman critical after alleged hit and run incident SYDNEY, Aug 3 AAP - A 61-year-old woman is in a critical condition after being hit by a van in Sydney's south-east. Police have appealed for any witnesses to come ...
NSW: 29-year-old woman charged with drug offences after raid
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: 29-year-old woman charged with drug offences after raid SYDNEY, Aug 3 AAP - A 29-year-old woman has been charged with drug dealing offences after police allegedly seized drugs and cash in a raid on a home in Sydney's south ...
NSW: Woman critical after hit and run incident
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Woman critical after hit and run incident A 61-year-old woman is in a critical condition with a punctured lung and multiple fractures after being hit by a van in Sydney's south east. Police say the Sans Souci woman ...
NSW: Man dies after hitting power pole
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Man dies after hitting power pole SYDNEY, Aug 3 AAP - A man has been killed in a single car accident in Sydney's south, police say. The man was driving west on Burraneer Bay Road, Cronulla, when his 1992 Holden ...
NSW: Second man charged with street racing on Anzac Bridge
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Second man charged with street racing on Anzac Bridge SYDNEY, Aug 3 AAP - A second man has been charged with street racing after allegedly driving at speeds of more than 160km/h on Sydney's Anzac Bridge. The ...
NSW: Man dies after hitting telegraph pole in Commodore
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Man dies after hitting telegraph pole in Commodore A man's been killed in a single car accident in Sydney's south. Police say the man's car hit a telegraph pole on Burraneer Road in Cronulla .....
Qld: Large truck tyre falls on girl, 3
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Qld: Large truck tyre falls on girl, 3 BRISBANE, Aug 3 AAP - A three-year-old girl is in a critical but stable condition after a large truck tyre fell on her at an industrial site in far north Queensland. The child ...
NSW: 29-year-old woman charged with drug offences after raid
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: 29-year-old woman charged with drug offences after raid A 29-year-old woman's been charged with drug dealing offences .. after police seized drugs and cash in a raid on a home in Sydney's south west. Police say they ...
Fed: South Sydney's league story a fairytale in the making
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed: South Sydney's league story a fairytale in the making By Michael Gadd, National Entertainment Writer SYDNEY, AAP - The story of the South Sydney Rabbitohs couldn't be made up. A once great club, the most ...
Fed: New reality singing contest is the anti-Idol, says Morris
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed: New reality singing contest is the anti-Idol, says Morris By Michael Gadd, National Entertainment Writer SYDNEY, Aug 3 AAP - It's The Office meets an after work karaoke party. The Singing Office is a new ...
Qld: School children in bus crash escape injury
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Qld: School children in bus crash escape injury BRISBANE, Aug 3 AAP - Sixteen school children on a bus that collided with a car near the Queensland city of Bundaberg have escaped injury, police say. However, the male ...
Fed: Dancing on treadmills shoots band to YouTube fame
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed: Dancing on treadmills shoots band to YouTube fame By Alyssa Braithwaite, National Entertainment Writer SYDNEY, AAP - A music video featuring four grown men dancing on treadmills has catapulted OK Go from a ...
Fed: Dicko says Idol 2007 will be a new test of star quality
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed: Dicko says Idol 2007 will be a new test of star quality Eds: attn language par 13. By Michael Gadd, National Entertainment Writer SYDNEY, AAP - In a business where looks account for plenty, ...
SA: Stolen generation compo winner has had a lifetime of sorrow
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 SA: Stolen generation compo winner has had a lifetime of sorrow By Todd Cardy ADELAIDE, AAP - A lifetime of sorrow has been recognised by Aboriginal man Bruce Trevorrow becoming Australia's first member of the stolen ...
Fed: Sum 41 frontman Whibley inspired by frustration
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 Fed: Sum 41 frontman Whibley inspired by frustration By Michael Gadd, National Entertainment Writer SYDNEY, Aug 3 AAP - Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley looks to have it all. He is a rock star with the added gift of ...
NSW: Six houses evacuated during grass fire south of Wollongong
Aug 03, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 08-03-2007 NSW: Six houses evacuated during grass fire south of Wollongong SYDNEY, Aug 3 AAP - Six houses were evacuated after a grass fire swept through the suburb of Warrawong south of Wollongong. The fire destroyed five hectares ...