HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, April 52011

AAP General News (Australia)
04-05-2011
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, April 52011

CANBERRA - Former High Court judge Michael Kirby says he longs for the day when gay
marriage is legal but he and his partner Johan van Vloten probably wouldn't tie the knot.

(Gay Kirby )

CANBERRA - Defence Minister Stephen Smith should have praised rather than criticised
the navy for managing to keep 40-year-old landing ships in service as long as it did,
a defence lobby group says. (Amphibious )

CANBERRA - Defence company Lockheed Martin has escalated flight testing of the Joint
Strike Fighter (JSF). (FIGHTER )

CANBERRA - Independent MP Rob Oakeshott under pressure from local clubs over planned
poker machine reform. (Pokies to come)

SYDNEY - NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell is standing by his decision to strip Treasurer
Mike Baird of crucial powers and move them to the finance portfolio. (OFarrell)

SYDNEY - A gynaecologist has contradicted evidence from a patient who said his inappropriate
touching of her led to her swearing at him. (Doctor) Wrap to come

SYDNEY - Traffic congestion has eased on the Pacific Highway in northern NSW as police
escort trucks around the scene of a fiery and fatal accident. (Toll NSW 3rd Update (pics
available))

SYDNEY - There are still more than 44,000 homeless people under the age of 25 in Australia
but the federal government says it's gone a long way towards tacking the problem. (Homeless)
Wrap to come

MELBOURNE - Two men with intellectual disabilities will take on the federal government
in court next week, hoping to win a pay rise for 20,000 disabled workers across Australia
(DISABLED to come).

MELBOURNE - A woman who killed her Melbourne drug dealer by stabbing him at least 40
times in a "frenzied attack" has been sentenced to 17 years' jail. (Epshtein) Wrap to
come

MELBOURNE - The Labor Party has denied it is responsible for a cost blowout for Victoria's
regional rail link. (Rail Vic)

MELBOURNE - Duck-shooting protesters say they're bringing the carnage of duck season
directly to Premier Ted Baillieu because he won't go to witness it first hand. (Ducks
Wrap) (pics to come))

MELBOURNE - Bullies could be sent to jail for up to 10 years under changes to stalking
laws to be introduced in the Victorian parliament. (Panlock)

MELBOURNE - Federal Court hearing continues for Andrew Bolt who is being accused of
racially discriminating against Aborigines through his newspaper articles, Federal Court.

(BOLT to come)

MAROOCHYDORE - A former prisoner has told an inquest into Daniel Morcombe's disappearance
that he believes one of the persons of interest in the case was responsible. (Morcombe)
Wrap to come

BRISBANE - Queensland's recovery has taken giant strides forward after a summer of
floods and Cyclone Yasi, Premier Anna Bligh says. (Recovery Bligh )

CANBERRA - The federal government says Legal Aid Queensland's self-help guide for the
impact of natural disasters would help consumers with their insurance claims. (INSURANCE
TO COME)

BRISBANE - Campbell Newman has spent his first full day as Queensland's Liberal National
Partyeader watching parliamentary proceedings from the opposition's office. (LNP) See
also Parly Qld, LNP Brent, LNP Mickel

LNP Wrap to come

BRISBANE - Queensland's police union has vowed to circumvent a planned ban on free
or discounted fast food for officers. (Police Qld Update)

BRISBANE - A man who was shot in the groin after allegedly charging at police while
he was armed with six knives has been charged with attempted murder. (Groin)

BRISBANE - More specialist police have been sent to Cairns to hunt for Declan Crouch
as his family marks his 14th birthday clinging to the hope he'll come home. (CROUCH) Wrap
to come))

BRISBANE - Queensland police will be banned from accepting free or discounted fast food
under new rules. (POLICE QLD - Wrap to come)

ADELAIDE - Opposition to South Australia's controversial marine parks plan is growing,
the Liberals say. (Marine)

HOBART - Burnt human remains have been found by a roadside in northern Tasmania. (Remains)

HOBART - Two men charged with bashing a man to death at a public housing flat north
of Hobart have been committed to stand trial for murder. (Gardner)

PERTH - Anti-social and criminal behaviour from public housing tenants has prompted
the West Australian government to make changes to its public housing policy. (Housing
WA)

BALLARAT - A faulty hot water heater became a flying projectile when an explosion blew
it 400 metres onto a neighbour's back porch a couple of streets away. (Heater)

ENTERTAINMENT

SYDNEY - Ten's decision to move George Negus' current affairs program to the 6.30pm
timeslot seems to have paid off so far with the show's ratings increasing. (Ratings)

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