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AAP General News (Australia)
08-13-2010
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, Aug 13

MELBOURNE - Three people have been shot dead on a bloody day in Melbourne, sparking
fears that another gangland war has erupted. (Chaouk Wrap, with pix) 2nd Wrap to come

MELBOURNE - Two people have been killed in a second shooting on a bloody day in Melbourne.

(Shooting Vic Update) 2nd Update (follows police presser in Carlton) and Wrap to come

Outwatching for more, including possible out of sessions court hearing re Shooting Vic

See also: MELBOURNE - Warnings of revenge killings, a vicious gun culture and a sneering
indifference to the law are key ingredients for another Melbourne gangland war. (Chaouk,
AAP Backgrounder)



JAKARTA - Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have finally admitted their
roles in the Bali Nine drug ring as part of a final appeal that seeks to have their death
sentences reduced to 20 years' prison. (Indon Nine Wrap, with file pix)



POLL10:

CANBERRA - Mr Scrooge would be pleased this election. The coalition eschewed the traditional
big-spending approach when it launched its campaign last week and now Labor has signalled
it would follow that lead too. (Poll10 Wrap) See also Poll10 Snapshot



CANBERRA - Teachers, technology and trade training are targeted under a series of education
policies unveiled by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, but one union has already criticised
the spending as robbing Peter to pay Paul. (Poll10 Education Wrap)



SYDNEY - A feisty and determined Prime Minister Julia Gillard has continued efforts
to woo western Sydney voters, who will be crucial to victory at next week's election.

(Poll10 Gillard Wrap, with pix)



MELBOURNE - It was by far Tony Abbott's easiest challenge this year. (Poll10 Abbott
Wrap, with pix and video)



CANBERRA - The nation's top transport bureaucrat has disputed claims he didn't find
out about federal Labor's $2.1 billion promise to fund a new commuter rail link until
he read it in the newspaper. (Poll10 Rail 2nd Wrap)



SYDNEY - Australians will be able to enrol online in future elections after the activist
group GetUp won a landmark case in the Federal Court. (Poll10 GetUp 2nd Wrap, with pix
and video)



CANBERRA - Labor expected to announce a new climate initiative on Saturday to encourage
green farming (Poll10 Climate to come)



See also Poll10 Xenophon Wrap, Poll10 Youth (Eds: Embargoed until 0100 AEST Saturday),
Poll10 Quotes Week, Poll10 Science, Poll10 Senate ACT, Poll10 Senate NSW, Poll10 Hendra
Update





OTHER NEWS:



MELBOURNE - Former Hawthorn Football Club president Ian Dicker will donate his six-figure
salary to bushfire victims after being appointed head of the Victorian Bushfires Reconstruction
and Recovery Authority. (Bushfires Authority Wrap)



PERTH - Western Australia's power transmission company has rejected a safety watchdog's
finding that one of its old wooden power poles fell and sparked the Toodyay bushfire.

(Toodyay Wrap, with pix)



SYDNEY - Shares in Telstra Corporation Ltd fell to a 10-week low, as investors continued
to sell off the country's biggest telco after disappointing earnings and forecasts. (Telstra
Wrap)



MELBOURNE - AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou has slammed the Seven Network as exploitative
for the way it has promoted Ben Cousins' controversial documentary. (AFL Cousins Wrap)



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