HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, April 30 =2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-30-2007
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, April 30 =2

SYDNEY - Chronically ill rural Australians spend more than a quarter of their total
household income on medication, a new study has calculated. (Chronic - embargoed)

SYDNEY - Women are more distressed by prostate cancer than their male partners who
are diagnosed with the disease, a study has found. (Prostate)

CANBERRA - More than one in 10 children with asthma have parents who smoke at home
despite warnings it can make their condition worse, a new report released on World Asthma
Day has found. (Asthma - embargoed)

CANBERRA - The man set to be installed as Labor's candidate in the key south-eastern
NSW federal marginal seat of Eden-Monaro has never lived in the area and has trouble pronouncing
its name. (Labor Kelly Nightlead)

CANBERRA - Remains found in Vietnam this month have been identified as two Australian
soldiers declared missing in action in 1965. (Diggers)

CANBERRA - Practical reconciliation alone cannot alleviate the hardships of indigenous
people, a World Health Organisation-backed report has warned. (Indigenous Health)

SYDNEY - A police officer surrendered tonight after a dramatic three-hour siege during
which heavily armed officers surrounded a Sydney police station. (POlice)

SYDNEY - A blind pilot who has just completed a 59-day flight from England says he
was adventurous but not foolhardy. (HiltonBarber Nightlead (pix available))

SYDNEY - The NSW Greens and key environmental groups say they will launch a civil disobedience
campaign aimed at halting the expansion of the NSW coal industry. (Coal Nightlead)

SYDNEY - Record property repossessions in Sydney's west have prompted a government
warning about "gung-ho" banks and eager lenders offering more than they should. (Homes
Nightlead)

MELBOURNE - A Victorian man has appeared in court accused of gouging out one of his
partner's eyes in a late night attack outside a country pub over the weekend. (Eyes Nightlead)

MELBOURNE - Victoria is moving closer to signing up to the federal government's national
water initiative. (Water Vic Nightlead)

MELBOURNE - A $45 million rail upgrade unveiled today will eliminate the bottleneck
of freight trains entering and leaving the Port of Melbourne, Australia's biggest port.

(Rail )

MELBOURNE - Detectives have launched a hunt for two men who fled a Melbourne nightclub
after gunning down a patron at the weekend. (Viper)

BRISBANE - One of Australia's most popular beer brands is chasing the trend for lower-strength
brews. (Fosters Nightlead (Pix available))

BRISBANE - A man acquitted of the manslaughter of another man he punched in the face
in a drunken fight over queue-jumping on a cab rank, has expressed his remorse over the
tragedy. (Moody Nightlead)

BRISBANE - A proposed recycled water pipeline will provide less water to drought-hit
south-east Queensland than originally expected, new figures show. (Water Qld Nightlead
(pix available))

MELBOURNE - A HIV positive man accused of spreading the virus through unprotected sex
believed it was like a "light cancer" a court has heard. (Mwale)

BRISBANE - The families of three sailors missing from a yacht in bizarre circumstances
off the Queensland coast still cling to hope and plan to go on searching for at least
another week. (Yacht Nightlead (File pix available))

DARWIN - Aborigines in the Northern Territory are desperate for a solution to the child
sexual abuse rampant in their communities, the head of an inquiry into their plight says.

(Abuse)

PERTH - A 19-year-old was kidnapped, beaten, enslaved for two days and threatened with
sexual servitude because another man believed the young man owed him money, a Perth court
was told today. (Smith)

HOBART - British yachtsman Tony Bullimore says he has overcome months of delays and
will leave Australia tomorrow on his latest solo round-the-world record bid. (Bullimore)

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