HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 15:30 = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-28-1999
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 15:30 = 2

CANBERRA - The federal opposition today called on Health Minister Michael Wooldridge
to release departmental papers relating to the so-called scan scam before the end of the
year. (MRI)

CANBERRA - Australians should sign a fitness contract with themselves for the New Year,
the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) said today. (FITNESS)

CANBERRA - The government should improve its own performance at commercialising science
rather than criticising scientists for lack of entrepreneurial attitude, the Federation
of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) believes. (FASTS)

CANBERRA - Family and Community Services Minister Jocelyn Newman has fallen back on
scheme she abolished to curb increasing reliance on disability pensions, Labor said today.

(DISABILITY to come).

CANBERRA - Analogue mobile phone users will lose most of their network at midnight
on New Year's Eve, Communications Minister Richard Alston said today. (MOBILES DAYLEAD)

SYDNEY - A 21-year-old man is in hospital with head and spinal injuries after falling
from an amusement park ride on the NSW central coast last night. (FALL LEAD)

SYDNEY - Boats on Sydney Harbour will be forced to slow to a crawl and skippers will
be breath tested under tough measures to control revellers on New Year's Eve. (EVE WATER)

SYDNEY - Sydney's $6 million new year's eve party on the harbour will go ahead even
if it rains, organisers said today. (EVE SYDNEY)

SYDNEY - New year's eve revellers have been warned to take care to avoid injury during
the celebrations on Friday night. (EVE AMBULANCE).

SYDNEY - US Telvision giant CNN is preparing for the ultimate telvision production
- 100 hours of live coverage of the world's NYE celebrations to be beamed to 6 billion
viewers, (EVE CNN).

SYDNEY - Parents with young children intending to take part in the city's new year's
eve festivities, have been warned to leave before midnight. (EVE KIDS)

EVE N/L to come

SYDNEY - A man was stabbed in the throat and had arteries severed in his right arm
during a bording house fight with two residnets last night, a court was told today, (BLAIR).

MELBOURNE - About 30 residents were evacuated from their homes in the central Victorian
town of Carisbrook overnight after torrential rain caused a local dam to leak. (FLASH
SECOND DAYLEAD, N/L to come)

MELBOURNE - Police are seeking witnesses to a car accident in which a woman was critically
injured in Melbourne's south-east early today. (ACCIDENT)

MELBOURNE - The son of a man found stabbed to death on Christmas Day in an apparently
motiveless murder today said his father was a "harmless old man" who did not deserve such
a fate. (PARKS)

BRISBANE - Crab-hatching techniques developed by Queensland researchers could create
a multi-million Australian industry, Primary Industries Minster Henry Palaszczuk said
today. (CRABS)

BRISBANE - Proposals to issue part-time taxi licences as part of a Queensland government
review of passenger transport services have angered a key industry union. (TAXIS, NIGHTLEAD
to come)

BRISBANE - Major roads affected by flooding in Queensland reopened to traffic early
today but police and motoring organisations urged motorists to drive carefully. (ROADS
DAYLEAD)

BRISBANE - A Brisbane woman was in a coma after being struck down by the arm of a rubbish
truck two days before Christmas, police said today. (TRUCK)

BRISBANE - New aquaculture projects in Queensland will be policed by federal laws to
be introduced next year, Federal Environment Minister Robert Hill said. (REEF)

ADELAIDE - An Aboriginal group protesting outside Adelaide's government house plans
to present a statement of claim over the land of South Australia to SA Governor Sir Eric
Neal today. (PROTEST, N/L to come)

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