HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, Aug 152010

AAP General News (Australia)
08-15-2010
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, Aug 152010
POLL10

CANBERRA - Prime Minister Julia Gillard is hoping a campaign launch just five days
before voters go to he polls will give Labor's bid for re-election a last-minute boost.

(Poll10 Wrap)

CANBERRA - Both leaders want to face the people before the election, but they just
can't agree on how. (Poll10 Debate Wrap)

DIAMOND CREEK - Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be hoping for the same result on
polling day as the Under 13 Research football team achieved at their grand final on Sunday.

(Poll10 Gillard Wrap)

Outwatching Gillard on Channel 7 for possible second wrap.

LISAROW - The parallels between sport and politics are plain enough to see. (Poll10
Abbott Wrap); see also;

PENRITH - Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is targeting western Sydney as election day
draws nearer, and plans to visit up to five marginal seats on Monday. (Poll10 Abbott West)

SYDNEY - Deposed prime Minister Kevin Rudd says his recent political hardships pale
in significance compared to many Australians who have been through much worse. (Poll10
Rudd to come)

BRISBANE - The Liberal National Party (LNP) says it is "regrettable" that a campaigner
for their youngest candidate Wyatt Roy punched a Labor campaigner - but claims he was
provoked. (Poll10 Roy Wrap)

CANBERRA - Australia's major banks have slammed a Labor election promise to ban lenders
from charging fees if their consumers exceed their credit card limit. (Poll10 Credit)

ADELAIDE - The Australian Greens are demanding to know how many children will be held
in "prison-like" detention centres following next weekend's federal election. (Poll10
Boat Greens)

ADELAIDE - Traffic will begin flowing on Adelaide's $564 million Northern Expressway
three months ahead of schedule in September. (Poll10 Expressway)

OTHERS

MELBOURNE - The head of an alleged Melbourne crime family gunned down at his home last
Friday will be buried beside his son who was shot by police. (Chaouk Wrap)

SANDAKAN, Sabah - Australias Governor General, Quentin Bryce, speaking at a service
marking the 65 th anniversary of the death marches here in World War II, said Australians
and Malays had overcome appalling adversity to build closer bonds between the communities.

(Sandakan Wrap)

SYDNEY - An intruder alert sounded just before a fire caused $20 million in damage
to Liverpool City Council chambers and left the western Sydney structure in ruins. (Council
Wrap)

SYDNEY - Tens of thousands of protesters - and a few sceptics - have taken to the streets
across Australia to urge the major political parties to take action on climate change.

(Walk Wrap with pix)

FINANCE

MELBOURNE - National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB) has sought to distance itself from the
banking oligopoly again over exception fees, saying credit card law reforms would benefit
consumers. (NAB)

MELBOURNE - Confusion reigns in the market over Telstra's unexpected decision to spend
up to $1 billion in its latest rejuvenation plans. (Telstra)

SPORT

SYDNEY - Penrith coach Matt Elliott is desperately trying to stop his side's NRL season
heading into freefall after the Panthers clocked their fifth loss from their last six
games with Sunday's 43-18 loss to the Wests Tigers. (League Wrap)

MELBOURNE - Potential star Titch maintained his unbeaten record over the jumps in the
J J Houlahan Hurdle at Sandown but the race signalled the end of champion Some Are Bent's
career. (Sandown Titch)

MELBOUNRE - AFL Wrap to come.

GENERAL

SANDAKAN, SABAH - Australia's Governor-General Quentin Bryce called on 500 attending
a memorial service to the fallen from World War II, to pay tribute to an Australian trooper
killed Saturday in Afghanistan. (Afghan Aust GG)

MELBOURNE - A policeman who, with three colleagues, rescued two boys and their father,
who was holding his children captive as flames consumed their house, insists they merely
did the jobs they were supposed to do. (Bravery Group to come)

LONDON - Fiendish Brits, sinister Asians, foppish Frenchmen and cartoonishly stereotyped
Muslims are being banned by Hollywood studio executives to avoid offending foreign audiences.

(UK Sterotypes0

SYDNEY - A man is dead and several people are in hospital after a crash involving three
cars in the NSW Hunter region. (Toll NSW Update)

MELBOURNE - A bus rollover has claimed the life of a Vietnamese national and seriously
injured two others in western Victoria. (Toll Vic Update)

PERTH - Perth detectives were continuing to question a man late into Sunday afternoon
after a young woman was killed during a disturbance at a home in the city's north-east.

(Dead Wrap)

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