HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Aug 28

AAP General News (Australia)
08-28-2007
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Aug 28

CANBERRA - Labor will keep strict conditions preventing union bosses barging into workplaces
and remove the award structure for staff on more than $100,000 if it wins government.

(Workplace Labor)

(To come - Workplace Nightlead, Analysis, Workplace Changes, with factbox, plus Workplace
Business and Workplace Senate to come.)

SYDNEY - NSW authorities say the equine influenza (EI) outbreak which has brought racing
to a standstill almost certainly came from the Eastern Creek quarantine station in Sydney.

(Stallions NSW)

(To come - Stallions Nightlead, Stallions NSW N/L, Stallions Source N/L, See also Stallions
Qld N/L, Stallions Vic, plus more on merit)

BRISBANE - Queensland's famous Birdsville Races will not go ahead this weekend because
of the equine influenza crisis, the state government says. (Stallions Birdsville. N/L
to come)

SYDNEY - Security and crowd control measures during next month's APEC Summit will be
reinforced in other ways with police horses quarantined and unavailable for duty, NSW
Deputy Premier John Watkins says. (APEC Watkins. Stallions APEC N/L to come.)

CANBERRA - The federal government says it will not tolerate abuse of the 457 visa program,
amid new claims temporary foreign workers are being employed in conditions akin to slavery.

(Visas Andrews. N/L to come.)

PERTH - The parents of a two-week old baby girl who died after being attacked by a
dog in a bedroom of their Perth home thought the pet was outside, police say. (Husky.

N/L to come.)

SYDNEY - Australia Post workers across the country will go on strike if they do not
get pay increases and improvements to working conditions, their union says. (Postal Lead
(Pix available))

CANBERRA - The chief of the army has acknowledged there are some problems with soldiers'
weapons but says they are not widespread and that the army is working hard to fix them.

(Weapons. N/L to come.)

HERMANSSBURG, NT - Aborigines need to become part of the Australian mainstream society
if they are to have a future, Prime Minister John Howard said today. (Indigenous Howard
Hermannsburg. More to come, plus see also Indigenous Labor to come.)

PORT AUGUSTA - An Aboriginal elder who gave three teenage girls petrol to sniff in
exchange for sex exploited the tragic addictions of his victims, a South Australian court
has heard. (Ingomar)

MELBOURNE - A Federal Court judge has granted an application to expedite an appeal
over a $2 billion pulp mill proposal in Tasmania's Tamar Valley. (Pulp Appeal. N/L to
come)

MELBOURNE - AFL chief Andrew Demetriou has branded as "abhorrent" the broadcasting
by the Seven Network of medical records of two AFL players. (AFL Drugs. N/L to come)

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