National Newslist for Monday, April 9

AAP General News (Australia)
04-09-2007
National Newslist for Monday, April 9
Good Morning News Editors and Chiefs of Staff
AAP's National Newslist for today (not for publication):
This is a guide only and stories are subject to change.

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NATIONAL:
SYDNEY - The Easter holiday road toll stands at 21 with the deaths of three men in a car
that plunged into the sea south of Melbourne overnight.

CANBERRA - Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says he expects a quiet day in Dili today
as East Timorese voters head to the polls to elect a new president.

INTERNATIONAL:
DILI - Polling opens in an election to replace independence fighter Xanana Gusmao as president
of troubled East Timor.

AUCKLAND - A trans-Tasman badminton tournament being held in New Zealand was thrown into
chaos yesterday after scores of competitors came down with a mystery illness.

CANBERRA:
- Lawyers for an Australian woman wrongly detained as an illegal immigrant say they are
suing the federal government because the contracting out of detention centres has made
it difficult to reach an out-of-court settlement.

- Demonstration at Zimbabwean High Commission, Canberra 11.30am.

SYDNEY:
- A two-year-old boy has died in a fire at Broken Hill in western NSW.

- Australia's leading Islamic cleric Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali has called for Muslims to
unite behind the hardline Iranian regime, according to local reports of his visit to Tehran.

- Large numbers of employers could face large fines for underpaying their workers because
the wages watchdog won't tell them what they are legally obliged to pay.

- A teenager has been stabbed by another youth outside a shopping centre in western Sydney.

- Police have charged 19 people following a protest at a central-western NSW mining site,
including a man who attempted to disrupt the activists' campsite.

- Scuffles broke out after several hundred patrons had to leave a Sydney hotel when police
received reports about a suspicious parcel on the premises.

- A man has been airlifted to Sydney as doctors attempt to save his eye after a scuffle
in Wollongong.

- Several gunshots have been fired in Sydney's Darling Harbour this morning.

- Family of a boy who was injured in hit-and-run incident on Sydney's northern beaches
last month to hold a 10.30am press conference calling for public assistance.

- Sydney Royal Easter Show attendances over the weekend.

- Police appealing for information after attack on man in Wollongong.

MELBOURNE:
- Police divers have found the body of a third man who died when the car he was in plunged
into water south-west of Melbourne overnight.

- A Victorian driver was detected with a blood alcohol level almost seven times the legal
limit yesterday.

- Police are investigating whether two armed robberies at Melbourne service stations overnight
are linked.

- Police are investigating a blaze at an outer-east Melbourne kindergarten that caused
about $200,000 damage.

BRISBANE:
- Three teenage boys allegedly brandished a machete and held up a service station in one
of a string of armed robberies.

- An 18-year-old woman has been charged for allegedly stabbing another woman in the stomach
south of Brisbane.

- Premier Peter Beattie and Queensland Water Commissioner comment on tomorrow's introduction
of level five water restrictions.

FINANCE:
MELBOURNE - Stock market pundits will have to keep their eyes on a number of factors when
the local bourse opens after its Easter break.

SYDNEY - Hot rocks explorer Geodynamics Ltd has identified a geothermal resource in South
Australia's Cooper Basin which it says has an energy output equal to 15 Snowy Mountain
hydro electricity power schemes.

SYDNEY - With chipped paint, cigarette butt-littered hallways and out-of-date decor, bowling
alleys were an unfashionable hangover from the 1960s.

SYDNEY - Australia's largest brickmaker, Brickworks Ltd, has launched a $2 million advertising
campaign to promote bricks after suggestions that people don't like the look of them anymore
and are trying to cover them up.

SPORT:
CRICKET
ST JOHN'S, Antigua - Australian captain Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke made half-centuries
to guide Australia to a comfortable seven-wicket victory over England in today's World
Cup Super Eights match.

AFL
MELBOURNE - AFL match: Hawthorn v Melbourne, MCG, 1410.

MELBOURNE - Follow up from Western Bulldogs v Adelaide.

LEAGUE
SYDNEY - NRL news including update on Andrew Johns.

SYDNEY - NRL match: Cronulla v St Geo-Illawarra, Toyota Park, 1900.

RUGBY
SYDNEY - Follow up from Brumbies v NSW Waratahs.

SYDNEY/BRISBANE - Early news ahead of NSW Waratahs v Qld Reds derby this week.

GOLF
AUGUSTA, Georgia - American Zach Johnson clinched a stunning victory at the 71st Masters
today as Australia's Stuart Appleby faded disappointingly to finish equal seventh.

ATHLETICS
STAWELL, Vic - Stawell Gift final.

MOTORSPORT
LAS VEGAS - Will Power has become the first Australian to win a round of the Champ Car
World Series, clinching the Las Vegas Grand Prix in Nevada today.

SURFING
BELLS BEACH, Vic - World championship tour event continues.

RACING
SYDNEY - Group One Doncaster Handicap at Randwick.

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