National Newslist for Tuesday, December 18, 2007

AAP General News (Australia)
12-18-2007
National Newslist for Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Good Morning News Editors and Chiefs of Staff
AAP's National Newslist for today (not for publication):
This is a guide only and stories are subject to change.

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ECONOMY:
- Outwatching more on Centro problems
- Swan says Australia's corporate sector is healthy, but regulators are watchful due to
the lingering fallout from the US sub-prime market collapse.

- Swan on fiscal restraint
NEW YORK - US stocks tumble on concerns that a persistent housing slump, combined with
surging prices, posed the threat of 1970s-style stagflation.

LONDON - World stock markets slump, oil price falls on concerns over US economy
WASHINGTON - World Bank says size of China's economy overestimated by some 40 per cent,
but still world's second largest

- Reserve Bank of Australia releases minutes of its November board meeting
- Westpac-ACCI Q4 Industrial Trends survey

PETROL:
- Assistant Treasurer Chris Bowen releases a report from inquiry into unleaded petrol
prices this morning.

COURTS:
SYDNEY
- Actor Samuel Johnson expected to plead guilty and be sentenced over an assault
- Possible plea from Charlotte Lindstrom, Swedish waitress involved in conspiracy to kill
- Appeal decision in case of State of NSW v Owen John Rogerson, brother of former police
officer Roger
- Judgment in case of Mark Joseph Connolly v Billy Burton, a stuntman in Mission Impossible
MELBOURNE
- Sentence of two men for their role in amphetamine lab containing drugs with street value
of up to $75m
ADELAIDE:
- Court appearance expected for Victorian prison escapees
- Former children's TV personality Ric Marshall to be sentenced on sex offences
PERTH:
- Start of coronial inquest into death in custody of WA's most notorious serial killer, David Birnie
- Alan Bond v Paul Barry case in court.

MEDICAL:
- Australia's leading osteoporosis experts condemn story on use of bisphosphonates

ENTERTAINMENT:

CANBERRA
- Minerals Council of Australia launches minerals industry survey report.

- Human rights group warns immigration minister to be careful with his words about warnings
of unauthorised arrivals
- Australian Automobile Association says it will help motorists cut their greenhouse-gas
emissions, giving its backing to a carbon-trading scheme.

- Customs vessel armed with machine guns may be deployed to the Southern Ocean as part
of beefed-up federal government monitoring of the Japanese whale hunt.

- EU Ambassador Bruno Julien invites Rudd to join him on his new hot-air balloon
- Bailey expected to win McEwen in recount
- Gillard urges employers not to draft new AWAs before laws change next year, but admits
nothing can be done to stop them.
- New report on house repossessions in ACT

SYDNEY:
- Youth campaigner Fr Chris Riley not surprised by report showing kids as young as 10
are developing alcohol problems
- Premier Morris Iemma and Education Minister John Della Bosca at 2007 HSC First in Course awards

MELBOURNE:
- Secret documents cast doubts on fairness of tender selection process for Melbourne's
new $500m rail-and-tram ticketing system, report; outseeking more
- Police presser on summer blitz of licensed venues throughout Victoria
- Melbourne's residential property market records one of its strongest years, REIV
- Inner northern suburb of Thornbury is Melbourne's top spot for home break-ins, according
to insurer

BRISBANE:
- Man shot in leg by police when the car he was travelling in allegedly tried to run down
an officer; police presser 0830

ADELAIDE:
- Findings into the deaths of nine people in Eyre Peninsula bushfires almost three years
ago to be handed down
- Man charged with drug offences after explosion in a secret drug lab
- Holden to start full production of its US export model, the Pontiac G8.

- Hicks to get a visit from his lawyer ahead of control order hearing on Thursday.

FINANCE:
ECONOMIC NEWS:
SYDNEY - RBA to release minutes of December 4 board meeting
SYDNEY - Housing Industry Association of Australia releases new home sales data for November
SYDNEY - Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases international merchandise imports
data for November

EQUITIES NEWS:
PERTH - ANZ Banking Group Ltd to hold annual general meeting
SYDNEY - Mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd is set to spend $US300 million ($A351.06 million)
to develop the Eagle nickel mine in Michigan in the United States.

SYDNEY - Australia's largest retailer, Woolworths Ltd, says it will oppose the appeal
by the New Zealand Commerce Commission (NZCC) against the NZ High Court's decision to
allow the grocer to bid for The Warehouse Group.

SYDNEY - Investment specialist, MFS Ltd, says earnings before interest, tax, depreciation
and amortisation for its travel business, the Stella Group are on track to exceed $100
million for the six months to December, 2007.

SYDNEY - Travel agency franchiser Jetset Travelworld Ltd today increased its interim profit
guidance, saying it expects 45 per cent growth in its "interim result" in the first half
of 2008.

SPORT:
CRICKET
MELBOURNE - Indian cricket team arrival presser for 4 Test tour, Langham Hotel, 1300
MELBOURNE/HOBART - News ahead of third and final Chappell-Hadlee ODI game in Hobart on Thursday
PERTH - Preview WA v SA Ford Ranger Cup game

SAILING
SYDNEY - Preview Sydney to Hobart yacht race, George Gregan Foundation presser, CYC, 1100

GOLF
HUNTER VALLEY - Jack Newton Classic
SYDNEY - Story on Aussies qualified for US Masters

CYCLING
MELBOURNE - Stuart O'Grady presser, Vodafone Arena, 1400

LEAGUE
SYDNEY - Cronulla Sharks cut down by golden staph
LONDON - Warrington's star signing Matt King has arrived in Britain

RUGBY
SYDNEY - ARU presser on ARC, St Leonards 1100
SYDNEY - More on Chris Latham set to quit Australia for English club Worcester.

SWIMMING
BRISBANE - Qld state championships continue, Chandler pool

PARALYMPICS
SYDNEY - Travel vaccine story and Kurt Fearnley interview

RACING
SYDNEY - Looking ahead to Randwick on Saturday
MELBOURNE - Preview Wednesday's Sandown races

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