AAP General News (Australia) back issues from September 2007:
Fed: Tougher English requirements come into force
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Fed: Tougher English requirements come into force EDS: Embargoed to 0001 AEST Saturday, September 1 CANBERRA, Sept 1 AAP - International students will need to have a higher standard of English when applying to ...
Fed: When the hanky comes out the hanky panky dries up
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Fed: When the hanky comes out the hanky panky dries up Eds: Embargoed until 0001 AEST Saturday, Sept 1, 2007 By Sam Cardwell CANBERRA, Sept 1 AAP - Employers are preparing for an onslaught of hayfever ...
NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers=2
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers=2 THE WEEKEND SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Page 1: League legends Mal Meninga and Kevin Walters were just two who begged Andrew Johns to quit drugs. Drugs testing in top-level ...
NSW: Great wall of Sydney springing up for APEC
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Great wall of Sydney springing up for APEC The steel and concrete security fences springing up around central Sydney today is proof APEC has well and truly arrived. Construction of the five kay fence encompassing ...
NSW: New top state cop targets bail rules
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: New top state cop targets bail rules Newly-appointed New South Wales Police Commissioner ANDREW SCIPIONE says he has an ideas blueprint to change the force. Mr SCIPIONE assumes the top job today following the ...
NSW: ATM fees pressured under Reserve Bank plan
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: ATM fees pressured under Reserve Bank plan Fees for using ATMs of banks other than your own could be a thing of the past under a new plan by the Reserve Bank. Fairfax newspapers say the changes are part of the RBA's ...
NSW: Cat off its face on coke and pills
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Cat off its face on coke and pills A cat in Sydney's eastern suburbs was taken to a vet high on cocaine and benzodiazepines. Fairfax newspapers report the eight-month-old Himalayan cat arrived at the Double ...
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers MELBOURNE, Sep 1 AAP - The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers: HERALD SUN Page 1: John Howard has demanded sports bosses take tough action to wipe out ...
What Australian newspapers say on Saturday, September 1, 2007
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 What Australian newspapers say on Saturday, September 1, 2007 SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - With Labor's workplace reform package, Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has essentially asked everybody to take him on trust, says The Weekend ...
NSW: ATM fees pressured under Reserve Bank plan
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: ATM fees pressured under Reserve Bank plan SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - Fees for using the ATMs of banks other than your own could be cut or disappear altogether. The changes are part of a Reserve Bank plan to abolish the ...
NSW: Main strories in today's Sydney newspapers=3
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Main strories in today's Sydney newspapers=3 WEEKEND FINANCIAL REVIEW Page 1: (Index) Page 2, 3: Road and rail infrastructure will become the focus of multi-billion-dollar spending by both sides in the ...
NSW: Main strories in today's Sydney newspapers=3
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Main strories in today's Sydney newspapers=3 WEEKEND FINANCIAL REVIEW Page 1: (Index) Page 2, 3: Road and rail infrastructure will become the focus of multi-billion-dollar spending by both sides in the ...
Fed: Tas pulp mill will be built, says PM: report
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Fed: Tas pulp mill will be built, says PM: report SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - Prime Minister John Howard has reassured the timber industry that the $2 billion Tasmanian pulp mill will be built. Mr Howard appears to have ...
News Diary events for Saturday, Sept 1, 2007
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 News Diary events for Saturday, Sept 1, 2007 GOOD MORNING NEWS EDITORS AND CHIEFS OF STAFF Here is AAP's preliminary newslist for today Saturday 1 Sep (not for publication). This is a guide only and stories, local times and ...
Fed: Rangers wil get real jobs after CDEP is gone, says Stone
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Fed: Rangers wil get real jobs after CDEP is gone, says Stone The federal government has defended the cutting of the funding base for Aboriginal rangers in the Northern Territory .. saying they'll get real jobs in ...
Race: Racing looks to Vic for recovery as horse flu grips NSW
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Race: Racing looks to Vic for recovery as horse flu grips NSW Racing's recovery begins in Melbourne today .. with the rebirth of the spring carnival .. while in New South Wales and Queensland .. the industry remains in the grip of ...
NSW: Anti-Bush protesters allowed to march during APEC
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Anti-Bush protesters allowed to march during APEC Student activists demonstrating against US President GEORGE W BUSH'S visit to Sydney during APEC .. have been given permission by police to march through the city. ...
NSW: Bipartisan praise for departing Police Commissioner Moroney
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Bipartisan praise for departing Police Commissioner Moroney New South Wales Police Minister DAVID CAMPBELL says the retirement of KEN MORONEY as Police commissioner marks the changing of the guard in the state's ...
NSW: Gov't reaches some agreement with ambulance officers
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Gov't reaches some agreement with ambulance officers The New South Wales government is hopeful an agreement with ambulance officers over a death and disability scheme will avert any industrial action .. during next week's ...
Fed: Tougher English requirements come into force
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Fed: Tougher English requirements come into force International students will need to have a higher standard of English .. when applying to stay in Australia under visa changes that take effect today. The changes to ...
Race: Sydney trainers and jockeys at a loose end
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Race: Sydney trainers and jockeys at a loose end Eastern suburbs punters hoping to watch the interstate racing action at their local pub today .. might find themselves filling out TAB tickets alongside some of Sydney's best ...
Events Diary for Saturday, September 1, 2007
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Events Diary for Saturday, September 1, 2007 EVENTS LISTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AND LOCAL TIME UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED: ADELAIDE No items listed BRISBANE 0830 - Animal law workshop, with Griffith law lecturer ...
RL: Johns drug revelations draws mixed response
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 RL: Johns drug revelations draws mixed response ANDREW JOHNS' revelations of drug use throughout his playing days .. have left several high profile figures caught between a rock and a hard place. Even JOHN HOWARD wasn't ...
Qld: Man in court over girl's murder
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Qld: Man in court over girl's murder A 28-year-old man will appear in the Townsville Magistrates Court today charged with murder .. after the body of a 13-year-old girl was discovered in north Queensland ...
NSW: New top cop targets bail rules
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: New top cop targets bail rules SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - New NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione has an "ideas blueprint" to change the force. Mr Scipione assumes the top job today following the retirement of Ken ...
Fed: No touching at Caulfield
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Fed: No touching at Caulfield The horse flu outbreak has caused many unusual changes to the racing industry .. but none quite as unusual as those which will take place at today's Caulfield meeting. Authorities have been ...
NSW: "Excluded" activist says he will defy APEC CBD ban
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: "Excluded" activist says he will defy APEC CBD ban An activist who says he's been included on a list of 29 people prohibited from visiting Sydney's CBD during APEC .. says he plans to defy the ban. PADDY GIBSON has ...
WA: Murdered Perth lawyer to be farewelled
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 WA: Murdered Perth lawyer to be farewelled Hundreds of mourners are expected to farewell murdered West Australian Supreme Court registrar CORRYN RAYNEY this morning. The service .. celebrating the life of the 44-year-old ...
Qld: Nurses' union campaigns against Howard IR laws
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Qld: Nurses' union campaigns against Howard IR laws The Queensland Nurses Union has launched an advertising campaign attacking the HOWARD government's industrial laws. Union secretary GAY HAWKSWORTH says the 500 thousand ...
NSW: Anti-terror fight trumps rights: judge
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Anti-terror fight trumps rights: judge SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - Incursions into people's basic rights may be essential in order to fight the risk of terrorism, former high court chief justice Gerard Brennan says. In a ...
Fed: I want the pulp mill to go ahead: Howard
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Fed: I want the pulp mill to go ahead: Howard JOHN HOWARD has reassured the timber industry the two billion dollar Tasmanian pulp mill project will be built. The Weekend Australian says the prime minister appears to have ...
NSW: Protecting against terrorism trumps rights: judge
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Protecting against terrorism trumps rights: judge Former high court chief justice GERARD BRENNAN says incursions into people's basic rights may be essential in order to fight the risk of terrorism. The Weekend ...
NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers=4
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers=4 THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN Page 1: Prime Minister John Howard has reassured the timber industry that the $2 billion Tasmanian pulp mill project will be built. Incursions into ...
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2 THE AGE Page 1: Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd refuses to bend on Labor's commitment to pull troops out of Iraq. AFL chief Andrew Demetriou has described the fight ...
NSW: Great wall of Sydney springing up for APEC
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Great wall of Sydney springing up for APEC SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - The steel and concrete security fence springing up in parts of central Sydney today is proof that APEC has well and truly arrived. Construction of the ...
NSW: Anxious cat has more than butter on its whiskers
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Anxious cat has more than butter on its whiskers SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - A cat in Sydney's eastern suburbs was taken to a vet high on cocaine and benzodiazepines. The eight-month-old Himalayan cat arrived at the Double ...
AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Breakfast, Sept 1
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Breakfast, Sept 1 Breakfast Round-Up: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AAP RTV FILE AT 0430 Stallions (SYDNEY) Racing's recovery begins in Melbourne today .. with the rebirth of the spring ...
QLD: Trail bike rider dies in road collision
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 QLD: Trail bike rider dies in road collision BRISBANE, Sept 1 AAP - A 23-year-old man has died in hospital after his trail bike collided with a utility in Brisbane's south-east. The crash happened at the intersection of ...
QLD: Trail bike rider dies in road collision
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 QLD: Trail bike rider dies in road collision A 23-year-old man's died in hospital after his trail bike collided with a utility in Brisbane's south-east. Police say The ...
NSW: Police appeal for information into woman's death
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Police appeal for information into woman's death Police are seeking public help to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a woman .. who fell from a moving semi-trailer in central New South Wales three months ...
NSW: Police appeal for information into woman's death
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Police appeal for information into woman's death SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - Police are seeking public help to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a woman who fell from a moving semi-trailer in central western NSW ...
NSW: Four men on drug charges after police raids
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Four men on drug charges after police raids SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - Four men have been charged after raids on two homes on NSW's mid north coast uncovered illegal drugs with an estimated street value of $10,000. ...
NSW: Four men on drug charges after police raids
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Four men on drug charges after police raids Illegal drugs with an estimated street value of 10 thousand dollars have been seized during raidS on two homes on the state's mid north coast. Police say they found a ...
NSW: Car chase ends with discovery of drugs
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Car chase ends with discovery of drugs Police say a man armed with a screwdriver had to be subdued with capsicum spray .. after a chase through Sydney's south west ended in a four-car collision. They say the ...
NSW: Car chase ends with discovery of drugs
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Car chase ends with discovery of drugs SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - Police have used capsicum spray to subdue a man after a car chase through Sydney's south-west ended in a four-car crash and the discovery of illegal drugs. ...
NSW: Police ask hit and run driver to come forward
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Police ask hit and run driver to come forward Police are seeking the driver of a truck involved in a hit-and-run which sent a woman to hospital. The say the truck knocked the woman down on Darley Street in Mona Vale ...
NSW: Police ask hit and run driver to come forward
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Police ask hit and run driver to come forward SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - Police are seeking the driver of a truck involved in a hit and run which sent a woman to hospital. The 36-year-old woman was hit by the truck while ...
NSW: Snow report for Saturday, September 1
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Snow report for Saturday, September 1 SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - NSW snow report for Saturday, September 1: THREDBO: Man-made snow only overnight. The soft cover is expected to soften quickly today with forecast sunshine ...
Fed: Not tonight dear. Achoo
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Fed: Not tonight dear. Achoo Employers are preparing for an onslaught of hayfever sick days as spring approaches .. but a new study shows it's people's sex lives that really suffer when the sneezing begins. A new ...
Fed: PM says he backs pulp mill, so long as it meets conditions
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Fed: PM says he backs pulp mill, so long as it meets conditions CANBERRA, Sept 1 AAP - Prime Minister John Howard says he backs the controversial Tasmanian pulp mill, but only so long as it meets and environmental ...
Vic: Men armed with kitchen knives rob supermarket
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Vic: Men armed with kitchen knives rob supermarket MELBOURNE, Sept 1 AAP - Two men armed with kitchen knives have threatened staff at a supermarket in Melbourne before escaping with a large amount of cash. The men ...
Vic: Nine people being questioned after police raids
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Vic: Nine people being questioned after police raids MELBOURNE, Sept 1 AAP - A taser gun is among a cache of illegal weapons and drugs seized during police raids on several properties in Victoria's south-east. Nine ...
Fed: PM says he backs pulp mill so long as it meets conditions
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Fed: PM says he backs pulp mill so long as it meets conditions The Prime Minister says he backs plans for a giant pulp mill to be built in Tasmania .. but only if it meets certain environmental conditions. JOHN HOWARD ...
Vic: Nine people being questioned after police raids
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Vic: Nine people being questioned after police raids Police have seized drugs .. cash and illegal weapons during police raids on properties in Victoria's south-east .. including tasers .. like those used by police. Nine ...
Vic: Two armed men rob supermarket
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Vic: Two armed men rob supermarket Two men armed with kitchen knives have threatened staff at a supermarket in Melbourne before escaping with a large amount of cash. Police ...
Qld
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Qld: Queensland police have charged 24 people with moving horses .. since a ban was imposed last Saturday because of an equine flu outbreak. Under the ban no horses of any type .. including pets, riding club horses, show ...
Qld: Races go on at Birdsville
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Qld: Races go on at Birdsville BRISBANE, Sept 1 AAP - For the first time in its 126 year history there will be no real horses at the famous Birdsville Races today. Punters will instead be able to bet on jockeys riding ...
Qld: Races go on at Birdsville
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Qld: Races go on at Birdsville For the first time in its 126-year history .. there will be no real horses at the iconic annual Birdsville races today. Punters will instead be able to bet on Jockeys riding hobby horses .....
AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Midday, Sept 1
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Midday, Sept 1 Midday Round-Up: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AAP RTV FILE AT 1130 Stallions (SYDNEY) Australia's spring racing season's begun in Melbourne .. while the industry ...
SCIPIONE (SYDNEY)
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 SCIPIONE (SYDNEY) On his first day as Police Commissioner .. ANDREW SCIPIONE says Sydney's APEC meeting is his first priority and challenge .. and the force is ready. He says the police reaction to any attack on them ...
NSW: Scipione gets tough on first day in the job
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: Scipione gets tough on first day in the job SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - New NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says he will not tolerate having his officers used as punching bags by APEC protesters. Addressing ...
Vic: Nine people being questioned after police raids=2
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Vic: Nine people being questioned after police raids=2 Victoria Police said the raids were part of Operation Carpal, and involved police from Traralgon, the Morwell Regional Response team and Morwell Criminal Investigation ...
Vic: Victorians told to slip,slop, slap into spring
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Vic: Victorians told to slip,slop, slap into spring Victorians are being warned to start puting on their hats .. sunglasses and sunscreen .. and not leave sun protection until summer. The state's Cancer Council ...
Vic: Victorians told to slip, slop, slap into spring
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 Vic: Victorians told to slip, slop, slap into spring MELBOURNE, Sept 1 AAP - Victorians are being warned not to leave their sun protection until summer with the Cancer Council of Victoria saying ultraviolet (UV) ray levels ...
NSW: APEC fence going up in central Sydney
Sep 01, 2007 ... AAP General News (Australia) 09-01-2007 NSW: APEC fence going up in central Sydney SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - Work has begun on the 2.8 metre high fence which will shut down parts of Sydney's CBD for the APEC summit, as authorities warn of impending traffic delays. ...