AAP General News (Australia) back issues from December 2008:
NSW: Delta Goodrem the head caroller in Sydney show
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: Delta Goodrem the head caroller in Sydney show Eds: Embargoed until 0001 December 1, 2008. SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - Delta Goodrem will headline Sydney's Christmas spectacular, Carols in the Domain. ...
Fed: Home buyers crippled by stamp duty
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Home buyers crippled by stamp duty EDS: Embargoed until 0001 AEDT Monday December 1 MELBOURNE, Dec 1 AAP - Growing stamp duty bills on residential properties are impeding Australian home buyers' ability ...
FED: Blame your genes for lengthy illness
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 FED: Blame your genes for lengthy illness Eds: Embargoed until 0001 AEDT Monday, December 1. By Tamara McLean, Medical Writer SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - Genes could explain why some people recover from the flu ...
Stamp duty bills throughout Australia
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Stamp duty bills throughout Australia Eds: Embargoed until 0001 AEDT Monday December 1 Key highlights of the bankwest research: - Stamp duty bills have more than doubled in six states and ...
NSW: Sting fulfils dream to play at Opera House
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: Sting fulfils dream to play at Opera House Former frontman of `80s band The Police .. STING .. has fulfilled a lifelong dream of performing at the Sydney Opera House .. a day after the visionary architect who designed it ...
Vic: Robert Doyle is Melbourne's new lord mayor
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Vic: Robert Doyle is Melbourne's new lord mayor EDS: Changes election placings in fourth and fifth pars on updated advice MELBOURNE, Nov 30 AAP - Former Victorian Liberal Party leader Robert Doyle is ...
Vic: Robert Doyle Melbourne's new lord mayor
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Vic: Robert Doyle Melbourne's new lord mayor Former Victorian Liberal Party leader ROBERT DOYLE is Melbourne's newest lord mayor. Mr DOYLE .. who led the Liberals to a devastating loss at the 2002 Victorian ...
Vic: Three men arrested, cars seized under anti-hoon laws
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Vic: Three men arrested, cars seized under anti-hoon laws MELBOURNE, Dec 1 AAP - Residents orf a street in Melbourne's north applauded on Sunday as police towed away three cars under Victoria's anti-hoon laws. Police ...
Fed: Clean energy industry depends on greater investment: report
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Clean energy industry depends on greater investment: report EDS: Embargoed until 0100 (AEDT) Monday, December 1 CANBERRA, Dec 1 AAP - Creating a commercial-scale clean-energy industry in Australia will cost more ...
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers MELBOURNE, Dec 1 AAP - The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers: HERALD SUN Page 1: Motor racing superstar Mark Skaife is facing financial ruin after a ...
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2 THE AGE: Page 1: Robert Doyle is Melbourne's new lord mayor after voters flocked to the former Liberal Party state leader in the hotly contested election. Julie ...
What Australian newspapers say on Monday, Dec 1, 2008
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 What Australian newspapers say on Monday, Dec 1, 2008 SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - The Prime Minister has wasted no time showing he means business reforming federalism, The Australian says in its editorial today. A generous ...
Fed: Government reneges on 2020 greenhouse target in Poland.
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Government reneges on 2020 greenhouse target in Poland. The Rudd Government has reneged on a commitment to present its 2020 target to cut greenhouse gases to UN climate talks in the Polish city of Poznan this week. ...
Fed: Sport and Olympics propel Seven to ratings win
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Sport and Olympics propel Seven to ratings win Sporting events .. including the Beijing Olympics .. have pushed the Seven Network to a TV ratings win for the second year running. Official results for the year .....
NSW: Trade delegation member speaks of Mumbai terror
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: Trade delegation member speaks of Mumbai terror A Sydney architect .. who was one of twelve trade delegation members caught up in terror attacks in Mumbai .. has spoken of fears he was going to be shot dead by the Indian ...
Qld: Eldery man drowns at swimming hole
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Qld: Eldery man drowns at swimming hole Police in far north Queensland will be resuming their search this morning for the body of an elderly man who drowned at a waterhole. They say the man drowned while swimming at ...
AAP 30-day diary from December 1 to December 30=3
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 AAP 30-day diary from December 1 to December 30=3 MONDAY DECEMBER 15 ADELAIDE: BRISBANE: CANBERRA: DARWIN: HOBART: ...
AAP 30-day diary from December 1 to December 30=4
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 AAP 30-day diary from December 1 to December 30=4 MONDAY DECEMBER 22 ADELAIDE: BRISBANE: CANBERRA: DARWIN: HOBART: ...
Fed: Australia to call for action at UN climate talks
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Australia to call for action at UN climate talks Australia will urge the world to hold its nerve on climate change .. at the United Nations' annual greenhouse summit starting in Poland today. There are concerns the ...
NSW: Delta Goodrem the head caroler in Sydney show
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: Delta Goodrem the head caroler in Sydney show Pop star DELTA GOODREM's announced she'll be headlining Sydney's Christmas spectacular .. Carols in the Domain. And skivvy-clad childrens' band .. The Wiggles .. will ...
Fed: Australian soldier among two injured in roadside bombing
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Australian soldier among two injured in roadside bombing An Australian soldier .. and a civilian employed by the Australian Defence Force .. have been wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan's Oruzgan ...
News Diary events for Monday, December 1, 2008
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 News Diary events for Monday, December 1, 2008 Good Morning News Editors and Chiefs of Staff Here is AAP's preliminary newslist for today (not for publication). This is a guide only and stories, local times and ...
Fed: Smiley face will appear in tonight's sky
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Smiley face will appear in tonight's sky Star-gazers tonight may think they're hallucinating .. when a smiley-face appears above the western horizon. Venus .. Jupiter .. and a three-day-old crescent Moon are making ...
AAP 30-day diary from December 1 to December 30=2
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 AAP 30-day diary from December 1 to December 30=2 MONDAY DECEMBER 8 ADELAIDE: BRISBANE: CANBERRA: DARWIN: HOBART: ...
NSW: Gunnedah declared natural disaster area
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: Gunnedah declared natural disaster area The northern New South Wales region of Gunnedah Shire has been included in areas declared as natural disaster zones .. following torrential rain over the weekend. SES crews ...
Fed: Swan won't rule out bringing forward tax cuts
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Swan won't rule out bringing forward tax cuts The federal government says it may consider bringing forward tax cuts .. if its 10.4 billion dollar injection doesn't give the economy the boost it needs. Politicians ...
Events Diary for Monday, December 1, 2008
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Events Diary for Monday, December 1, 2008 EVENTS LISTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AND LOCAL TIME UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED: ADELAIDE - No items listed. BRISBANE 1315 - First direct flight from Fiji to Gold Coast ...
AAP 30-day diary from December 1 to December 30
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 AAP 30-day diary from December 1 to December 30 AAP 30-DAY DIARY FROM DECEMBER 1 TO DECEMBER 30 MONDAY DECEMBER 1 ADELAIDE: BRISBANE: ...
Fed:Global middle class can change world for the better: Murdoch
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed:Global middle class can change world for the better: Murdoch Media magnate RUPERT MURDOCH says the new global middle class can change the world for the better .. while expanding by more than 70 million people each ...
Fed: Clean energy industry depends on greater investment: report
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Clean energy industry depends on greater investment: report A new report shows creating a commercial scale clean-energy industry in Australia will cost more than five billion dollars annually over the next ten years....
Fed: Government reneges on 2020 greenhouse target in Poland.
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Government reneges on 2020 greenhouse target in Poland. SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - The Rudd government has reneged on a commitment to present its 2020 target to cut greenhouse gases to UN climate talks in the Polish city of Poznan ...
NSW: Singleton urges greater donations to homeless and needy
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: Singleton urges greater donations to homeless and needy Advertising guru JOHN SINGLETON has challenged people to dig even deeper .. and not use the financial crisis as an excuse to avoid giving to the needy. Mr ...
Fed: Home buyers crippled by stamp duty
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Home buyers crippled by stamp duty A new report says Australian first home buyers are having difficulty entering the housing market .. because of growing stamp duty bills. The inaugural bankwest Residential Stamp ...
FED: National security statement expected this week
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 FED: National security statement expected this week Prime Minister KEVIN RUDD's expected to outline a new national security policy this week. He's promised to deliver his first national security statement before the ...
Qld: Train services resume after derailment
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Qld: Train services resume after derailment Rail travel between the north Queensland cities of Cairns and Townsville has resumed following last week's fatal derailment. Queensland Rail's Tilt Train and a semi trailer ...
QLD: Gold Coast first to taste fluoridated water
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 QLD: Gold Coast first to taste fluoridated water Residents on the northern Gold Coast will be the first Queenslanders to sample fluoridated water .. when it's added to local pipes today. It's the first step of the state ...
NSW: The main stories in today's Sydney Newspapers
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: The main stories in today's Sydney Newspapers SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - The main stories in today's Sydney newspapers: THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Page 1: Bullies who drove a 14-year-old schoolboy to take his life have ...
NSW: The main stories in today's Sydney newspapers = 2
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: The main stories in today's Sydney newspapers = 2 THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Page 1: Sydney Opera House architect Joern Utzon dies at the age of 90. The Rudd government has reneged on a commitment to present its 2020 ...
NSW: The main stories in today's Sydney Newspapers = 3
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: The main stories in today's Sydney Newspapers = 3 THE AUSTRALIAN Page 1: Danish architect Joern Utzon dies. Kevin Rudd will identify the nation's poorest-performing schools and flood them with $1.1 billion over the next ...
AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Breakfast, Dec 1
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Breakfast, Dec 1 Breakfast Round-Up: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AAP RTV FILE AT 0430 Thai Unrest Aust Wrap (CANBERRA) Around 300 Australians trapped in Thailand could be making their way home ...
2GB 0500 news headlines
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 2GB 0500 news headlines - Hundreds stranded in Thailand could fly home tonight; Stephen Smith says he wants a plane load of Australians out of Phuket as soon as possible; - Tensions between Pakistan and India have ...
NSW: Man charged with child porn after taking photos of children
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: Man charged with child porn after taking photos of children A man caught taking mobile phone photographs of young children paddling in water at Sydney's Darling Harbour faces child pornography charges. Police were ...
NSW: Motorists conned over E-tag security deposits - report
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: Motorists conned over E-tag security deposits - report SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - Providers of electronic tags for tollways have been accused of conning NSW motorists out of more than $100 million in needless upfront ...
NSW: More than 50 arrested at Sydney dance festival
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: More than 50 arrested at Sydney dance festival SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - More than 50 partygoers at a Sydney music festival have been arrested after a massive police drugs operation. Police targeted the Global Gathering ...
NSW: Man charged with child porn after taking photos of children
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: Man charged with child porn after taking photos of children SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - A man caught taking mobile phone photographs of young children paddling in water at Sydney's Darling Harbour faces child pornography ...
NSW: Operation Simmer targets Sydney hoons and drunks
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: Operation Simmer targets Sydney hoons and drunks SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - A summer crackdown on car hoons, drunkenness and anti-social behaviour has been launched by Sydney police across the CBD and beaches areas. ...
Fed: Injured Aussie couple on way home
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Injured Aussie couple on way home MELBOURNE, Dec 1 AAP - An Australian woman injured in the Indian terrorist attacks is on her way home. Katie Anstee, 24, from Sydney was shot at Cafe Leopold on her first day of a ...
Fed: Injured Aussie couple on way home
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Injured Aussie couple on way home An Australian woman injured in the India terrorist attacks is on her way home. Twenty-four-year-old KATIE ANSTEE from Sydney was shot in the leg at Cafe Leopold in Mumbai .. just ...
NSW: Motorists conned over E-tag security deposits - report
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: Motorists conned over E-tag security deposits - report Providers of electronic tags for tollways have been accused of conning New South Wales motorists out of more than 100 million dollars in needless upfront ...
Vic: Skaife may lose everything in business deal: report
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Vic: Skaife may lose everything in business deal: report MELBOURNE, Dec 1 AAP - Retiring Australian motor sport champion Mark Skaife reportedly faces financial ruin, owing $3.6 million after a business deal gone bad. ...
Vic: Skaife may lose everything in business deal: report
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Vic: Skaife may lose everything in business deal: report Retiring Australian motor sport champion MARK SKAIFE reportedly faces financial ruin .. owing 3.6 million dollars after a business deal gone bad. News Ltd says the ...
NSW: NSW vexatious litigant laws now in force
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: NSW vexatious litigant laws now in force SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - New NSW laws cracking down on vexatious litigants, who victimise or embarrass others through unnecessary law suits, have come into effect. NSW ...
NSW: NSW vexatious litigant laws now in force
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: NSW vexatious litigant laws now in force New laws cracking down on vexatious litigants come into effect in New South Wales today. They target people out to victimise or embarrass others through unnecessary and ...
ACT: Main stories in today's Canberra newspapers
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 ACT: Main stories in today's Canberra newspapers CANBERRA, Dec 1 AAP - The main stories in The Canberra Times today: Page 1: Authorities are rushing to evacuate hundreds of Aussies stranded in Bangkok. The 2008 ...
Fed: Injured Aussie couple on way home
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Injured Aussie couple on way home A young Australian woman shot in the leg in the Mumbai attacks should be home within hours. When the terrorists struck India's biggest city .. 24-year-old KATIE ANSTEE was dining at ...
NSW: Man charged with child porn
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 NSW: Man charged with child porn A man's been charged with possessing child pornography .. after being spotted allegedly taking photographs of children at Sydney's Darling Harbour. Police called to the popular tourist ...
Vic: Body found in water
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Vic: Body found in water The body of a young woman has been found in the water at a Melbourne beach. Believed to be aged about 20 .. she was spotted by a ...
Vic: Body found in water
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Vic: Body found in water MELBOURNE, Dec 1 AAP - The body of a young woman has been found in the water at a Melbourne beach. A passer by noticed the woman at Middle Park beach, in inner-southern Melbourne ...
Vic: Truck driver dead amid traffic chaos after tanker rolls
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Vic: Truck driver dead amid traffic chaos after tanker rolls MELBOURNE, Dec 1 AAP - A truck driver is dead after his tanker rolled over and caught fire on Victoria's Great Ocean Road. The accident happened about 3.15am ...
Vic: Truck driver dead amid traffic chaos after tanker rolls
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Vic: Truck driver dead amid traffic chaos after tanker rolls A fatal truck crash has closed the Great Ocean Road near Lorne in Victoria this morning. Police say a tanker rolled and caught fire just after 3am (AEDT) ...
News Diary events for Monday, December 1, 2008
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 News Diary events for Monday, December 1, 2008 Good Evening News Editors and Chiefs of Staff Here is AAP's preliminary newslist for today (not for publication). This is a guide only and stories, local times and locations are ...
Qld: Primary vote neck-and-neck in Queensland
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Qld: Primary vote neck-and-neck in Queensland Queensland's Labor government would have depended on Green preferences to survive .. if an election had been held last week. The latest Galaxy poll gives the Bligh ...
Qld: Primary vote neck-and-neck in Queensland
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Qld: Primary vote neck-and-neck in Queensland BRISBANE, Dec 1 AAP - Queensland's Labor government would have depended on Green preferences to survive had an election been held last week, the latest Galaxy poll shows. The ...
Qld: Body located at swimming hole
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Qld: Body located at swimming hole BRISBANE, Dec 1 AAP - A recovery effort will resume in far north Queensland Monday morning for the body of a 23-year-old man who went missing on Sunday in Devil's Pool at The Boulders, a ...
Fed: Govt must spell out 202 targets: ACF
Dec 01, 2008 ... AAP General News (Australia) 12-01-2008 Fed: Govt must spell out 202 targets: ACF The Australian Conservation Foundation says the RUDD government must spell out its 2020 carbon reduction targets .. now. After saying mid-term targets would be set before this ...