Highlights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45 AEST, Aug 27

AAP General News (Australia)
08-27-2008
Highlights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45 AEST, Aug 27



CANBERRA - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says school performance reporting will be a condition
for reaching an education agreement with the states. (Rudd Schools. Nightlead to come.)

CANBERRA - The Rudd government has rejected a new report which suggests funding for
public schools will be cut over the next four years, resulting in the loss of 1,000 teachers.

(Education Lead)



MELBOURNE - Two light aircraft have clipped in mid-air causing one to crash killing
the pilot, while the second landed safely in Melbourne's south-east. (Plane Lead. Nightlead
to come.)



SYDNEY - All victims of an alleged pedophile ring at a Catholic boys' school in Bathurst
are being urged to come forward by the NSW police. (Stannies 2nd Daylead. Nightlead to
come.)



MELBOURNE - The editor-in-chief of Melbourne's metropolitan broadsheet newspaper, The
Age, has been sacked from his position. (Age Second Lead. Age Nightlead to come.)

SYDNEY - Alarm bells are ringing over the state of quality journalism in Australia,
and the future of newspapers and magazines lies with celebrity-driven pap, an industry
leader says. (Fairfax Beecher)



CANBERRA - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised a national security statement will
be delivered during this parliamentary session. (Rudd Security. Rudd Nightlead, Analysis,
to come.)



CANBERRA - The future of two of the Rudd government's budget bills will become clearer
today when a Senate committee tables reports from inquiries into the Medicare levy surcharge
and a new tax on light crude oil extracted from natural gas. (Senate Reports)

CANBERRA - Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has vowed to continue to block any government
plans to increase taxes. (Senate Nelson)

CANBERRA - The federal opposition has admitted global factors are impacting on the
Australian economy, but says the previous coalition government handled such pressures
better than Labor. (Economy Dutton)

TO COME: Economy Nightlead, taking in Senate



CANBERRA - The Australian Greens have vowed to block new draft laws introduced to parliament
today to strip the welfare payments of parents whose kids wag school. (Welfare Lead)



CANBERRA - Communications watchdog to release long-awaited report on children's television
standards at 1500 AEST. (Television, to come)



SYDNEY - Gordon Wood tried to use then-senator Graham Richardson as part of his alibi
on the day his girlfriend was killed and later threatened a witness who contradicted his
account, a Sydney court has been told. (Wood. Nightlead to come.)



MELBOURNE - Australia will today commemorate the one century that eluded Don Bradman.

(Bradman. Nightlead to come from 100th anniversary dinner tonight. Sidebars on file.)

BOWRAL - Sir Donald Bradman, as the story goes, struck his school principal in the
head with a cricket ball so his class mates could have a longer lunch. Today, the Don
was still helping students ditch study time when pupils at his old school in the NSW southern
highlands took time out to mark what would have been the cricketing great's 100th birthday.

(Bradman Bowral. Nightlead to come.)



SYDNEY - Westfield Group, the world's biggest listed shopping centre owner, is on track
to achieve its earnings growth target for this year as it opens new centres at almost
full capacity. (WESTFIELD to come)



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