HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:00, Feb 11

AAP General News (Australia)
02-11-2006
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:00, Feb 11



AWB

SYDNEY - A former intelligence officer says it was impossible for the federal government
not to have known kickbacks were being paid by AWB to Saddam Hussein's regime. (AWB Reid)

CANBERRA - Prime Minister John Howard has denied he was ever committed to ending AWB's
wheat export monopoly. (AWB Monopoly Lead)

(Nightlead to come)



TROOPS

SYDNEY - Australian troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are being put at risk by faults
in their clothing. (Troops)

SYDNEY - A full audit is needed of the Defence agency charged with buying combat clothing
after reports Australian troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are being put at risk by defective
gear, including helmets, Labor says. (Troops Labor)

CANBERRA - Australian troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have some of the best equipment
in the world, the chief of the army said today. (Troops Leahy to come)

(Nightlead to come)



MELBOURNE - A health reform package unveiled this week would do little to address the
increasing gap in health services available for the rich and the poor, a group of Australian
doctors said today. (COAG DRS)



BRISBANE - The tragedy of patients dying at Bundaberg Hospital would never have happened
if the COAG agreements were in place 20 years ago, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie says.

(COAG Beattie to come)



SYDNEY - NSW Premier Morris Iemma has again apologised over a derogatory comment about
the new chief executive of Sydney's Cross City Tunnel, saying he wished he'd chosen better
words. (Iemma to come)



HOBART - Telstra boss Sol Trujillo should open his private National party briefing
to at least one Tasmanian to get a true picture of telecommunications problems facing
rural Australians, a Tasmanian Labor MP says. (Telstra Tas)



SYDNEY - A man has died in a caravan fire on the New South Wales central coast. (Caravan)



MELBOURNE - A 38-year-old man died from head injuries in a water-skiing accident on
the Murray River in Victoria. (Skiing, Lead)



BRISBANE - A 34-year-old man died when his utility and a semi-trailer collided in north
Queensland. (Toll Qld)



BRISBANE, Feb 11 AAP - Sorry about that officer. A man who police say was under the
weather has allegedly driven his car into a brick pillar outside a Queensland police station.

(Car, Lead)



ADELAIDE - A woman died after a car in which she was travelling collided with a Harley
Davidson at West Richmond in Adelaide's west. (Toll SA)



HOBART - Ten people have been arrested at an anti-live sheep export protest in Tasmania.

(Sheep to come)



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