HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Feb 1=2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-01-2009
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Feb 1=2

- Postcards from AAP correspondents in LA, London, Nadi and Port Moresby on file.

LOS ANGELES - Qantas has defied the economic downturn in the US by achieving record
fare sales to Australia in the past fortnight. (US Qantas)

SYDNEY - Child protection authorities should be called in to handle "extreme" cases
where parents allow their kids to get too fat, an Australian doctor says. (Obese)

SYDNEY - Attacks and violent bashings, especially of young Australian men, have doubled
over a six year period, according to new research. (Bashed)

CANBERRA - Heart attack victims are set to benefit from drugs newly listed on the Pharmaceutical
Benefits Scheme (PBS). (Heart)

SYDNEY - A television pilot about a group of high school kids living in small-town
Australia has won the one80project and will be produced for MTV. (Project - embargoed
to 2100 AEDT Sunday)

SYDNEY - First it was students, now NSW's public high school teachers will receive
their own wireless laptop computer as part of the government's plan to create "the clever
state". (Schools NSW)

SYDNEY - NSW firefighters are on standby to help their Victorian counterparts battling
blazes in Victoria. (Bushfires NSW)

SYDNEY - Dragons, giant lanterns and a fireworks display are all part of the twilight
parade in Sydney to celebrate Chinese New Year. (Year Sydney. Wrap to come)

SYDNEY - Former NSW minister in the Askin government, Sir John Fuller, has died after
a long battle with cancer. (Fuller)

MELBOURNE - As 500,000 public school students head back to the classroom, the teachers'
union says there are massive teacher shortages and the government doesn't have education
as its top priority. (Schools Vic Wrap)

MELBOURNE - Activists aboard Sea Shepherd conservation vessel Steve Irwin are in full
speed pursuit of a Japanese whaling fleet south-east of Hobart. (Whaling)

MELBOURNE - Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon to address Gay Pride
march. (Gay Nixon)

BRISBANE - As summer rain swept across Brisbane, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown
was talking up the power of the Queensland sun. (Jobs Greens (pix available))

BRISBANE - Premier Anna Bligh has ordered a mozzie repellent roll-out in north Queensland
to fight the dengue fever epidemic. (Dengue Repellent)

TOWNSVILLE - Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser says the opposition must rein in its
chief financial backer, who has threatened to sue the premier. (Palmer)

TOWNSVILLE - North Queensland is bracing for a tropical cyclone expected to cross the
coast on Monday. (Ellie, to come)

TOWNSVILLE - Qld community cabinet meeting; cover on merit.

ADELAIDE - Slight relief is in sight for Adelaide residents this week, with forecasters
predicting temperatures will drop below 40 degrees Celsius for the first time in days.

(Heat SA. Update to come, Wrap on merit)

ADELAIDE - The first cruise liner to be based in Adelaide will arrive in South Australian
for the first time on Monday to launch a maiden season that is expected to boost the state's
economy by $1.3 million. (Athena, to come)

PERTH - A final inquiry to establish the details behind the sinking of HMAS Sydney
II 68 years ago will continue in Perth this week. (Sydney Perth, to come)

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