AAP Backgrounders and Analyses for the weekend of April 5/6

AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-2008
AAP Backgrounders and Analyses for the weekend of April 5/6
AAP BACKGROUNDERS AND ANALYSES FOR THE WEEKEND OF APRIL 5/6

For further information please contact Newseds Joanne Williamson on (02) 93228611 or Nalita
Ferraz on (02) 93228610.

CANBERRA - Wrap-up of week in federal politics. (Newscope Federal, AAP News Analysis,
by Maria Hawthorne, about 700 words, to come Friday)

ADELAIDE - A former barrister and Supreme Court judge, Ted Mullighan is as articulate
as they come. (Abuse, AAP Newsfeature, By Steve Larkin, 900 words. On file)

SYDNEY - It wasn't the finding his family had been hoping for. (Kovco, AAP Newsfeature,
By Amy Coopes, 1,340 words. On file, pix available)

MELBOURNE - Wayne Carey bared his soul on national television this week, but did it do
him more harm than good? (Carey, AAP Newsfeature, By Mike Hedge, Approx 800 words. To
come Friday)

CANBERRA - It seemed hard to believe it was happening in Australia - workers locked out
in the middle of the night and strike-breakers protected by balaclava-clad security guards
and vicious dogs. (Workplace, AAP Newsfeature, By Denis Peters, 1,000 words. On file)

MELBOURNE - There is an old saying, `hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'. When first
uttered in the 17th century it referred to women in love, but perhaps in the 21st century,
it should be broadened to include women in industrial relations. (Unions Women, AAP Newsfeature,
By Kellee Nolan. Approx 1000 words. To come tomorrow)

MELBOURNE - Victoria's highest paid public servant quit his $540,000-a-year job this week
but denied he was to blame for the state's troubled public transport ticketing system
running three years behind schedule and blowing out to a cost of $1 billion. (Newscope
Vic By Kate Lahey. Approx 800 words. To be come Friday)

CANBERRA - Of all the wacky theories about how HMAS Sydney came to be lost with all 645
hands, the most outlandish is not that she was really sunk by a Japanese submarine almost
two months before Pearl Harbour. (Sydney Backgrounder, By Max Blenkin, about 1,100 words.

On file today)

DILI - Jose Sarmento lines up on a basketball court with 3,000 other displaced people
to collect his rice and cooking oil for the month. (Timor Refugees, AAP Newsfeature, By
Stephanie March, 960 words. On file, pix available)

PERTH - Plonking a tea bag in a cup of hot water simply won't do anymore in this day of
increasingly discerning tea drinkers, according to Stephen Twining. (LIFE: Tea, By
Rebecca Le May, 1,090 words. On file)

SYDNEY - Concert pianist Aaron McMillan had just escaped a death sentence when he first
met author Susan Wyndham at a dinner at NSW parliament house. Or so he thought. (BOOKS:
Wyndham, By Judy Skatssoon, 1,000 words. On file)

ENTERTAINMENT:
SYDNEY - With her quiet, friendly demeanor and angelic voice, it's hard to believe that
Scottish singer Sandi Thom was once described as "the antichrist of music". (Thom Music
Feature by Alyssa Braithwaite, about 750 words, to come today)

MELBOURNE - Who is Australia's funniest school kid? Traditionally, the notoriety of the
student who kept all the other school kids entertained in the dullest of lessons was confined
to the classroom. (Comedy Kids, AAP Newsfeature, By Michelle Draper. 870 words. On file)

SPORT:
EDS NOTE - For further information on sport reads please contact Mike Osborne on (02) 93228750

GOLF
SYDNEY - A rundown of the Australians playing in next week Masters at Augusta, the first
major of the year.

(Golf Masters Aust, with extended factbox. About 800 words. By Senior Sports Writer John Coomber)

NETBALL
SYDNEY - Preview of the new Trans-Tasman netball league. (Netball Tasman Sportsfeature
by Adrian Warren, about 600 words, to come Thursday)

TRIATHLON
MELBOURNE - Profile on Hawaiin Ironman champion Chrissie Wellington who races Sunday in
Australia. (Tri Wellington Sportsfeature by Roger Vaughan, about 600 words, to come Friday)

RACING
SYDNEY - There comes a time for every master to hand over to a new apprentice but for
trainer Bart Cummings, that time is not now. (Gallops Cummings Sportsfeature by Mandy
Cottell, about 600 words, to come Thursday)

SEE ALSO ROUTINERS TO COME:
* Quotes
* Milestones
* Oddities
* Checkup medical column

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