Highlights of the AAP National wire at 20:00 Feb 19, 1999 = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-19-1999
Highlights of the AAP National wire at 20:00 Feb 19, 1999 = 2

MELBOURNE - Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett was today accused of taking a leaf from Pauline
Hanson's book by not wanting Aborigines to be recognised in the constitution's preamble.
(REPUBLIC KENNETT)



MELBOURNE - Labor's new policy platform was an irresponsible attempt to buy votes at the
next state election, Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett said today. (ALP VIC NIGHTLEAD)



ADELAIDE - Junk food, bullying and theft will give way to healthy eating with a new
electronic card system for school canteens launched in Adelaide today, its designers say.
(MUNCHIES)



ADELAIDE - A 16-year-old boy died today after he was run over by a police car in a
scrubland search that went tragically wrong. (STRUCK NIGHTLEAD)



MELBOURNE - A Hobart primary school teacher was in a critical condition tonight after she
was injured breaking up a fight between two 11-year-old boys yesterday. (CLASS)



BRISBANE - The state opposition said today it would use next month's session of state
parliament to press the Beattie government on allegations of a possible conflict of interest
in the $5 million purchase of a Brisbane racetrack. (DEAGON NIGHTLEAD)



MELBOURNE - Former Mexican banker Carlos Cabal Peniche was being illegally detained and
treated inhumanely, his lawyers said before withdrawing an application for bail today. (CABAL
NIGHTLEAD)



ADELAIDE - A car ad featuring a caricature of the Devil and says: "You'd sell your soul for
one", vilifies Christians and disrespects the bible, the Bible Society said today. (DEVIL)



MELBOURNE - Committal proceedings against millionaire builder brothers Bruno and Rino
Grollo should continue regardless of the publicity it would generate, a court was told today.
(GROLLO)



CANBERRA - A GST would boost school costs by at least $200 for every pupil and put
thousands more teenagers on the dole queues, an inquiry into tax reform heard today. (TAX
NIGHTLEAD)



MELBOURNE - A wage claim proposed by the ACTU was playing with the lives of thousands of
workers and would have catastrophic consequences if adopted, Australia's peak business body
said today. (WAGES ACCI)



DARWIN - Darwin today remembered the day World War II hit Australian shores, when bombs
from hundreds of Japanese aeroplanes killed nearly 250 people. (BOMBING)



PERTH - A 48-year-old West Australian woman has been charged with trying to smuggle birds
eggs into the country hidden in her bra, customs officials said. (EGGS)



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