AAP General News (Australia)
02-15-2008
Main stories in tonight's 1800 Seven News
SYDNEY, Feb 15 AAP - Highlights of tonight's Seven News at 1800.
- NSW firefighters have walked off the job in an hour-long strike.
- A family friend has found the body of a 66-year-old man near the kitchen of his flat
in Alt Street, Ashfield, in the Sydney's inner west.
- Australia will keep its troops in East Timor for as long as they are needed and will
do whatever it takes to defend the young democracy, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has vowed.
- Mackay has been declared a disaster zone after a record-breaking 625mm of rain fell
in one day, swamping the central Queensland city.
- Child protection workers in NSW are overwhelmed by almost 300,000 reports of possible
abuse every year, 10 years after a mandatory reporting scheme was introduced, a commission
of inquiry has been told.
- Residents and media were locked out of Sydney Airport Community Forum's first meeting
of the year to discuss the impact of the extension of the east-west runway.
AAP jel/
KEYWORD: MONITOR SEVEN 1800
2008 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.
No comments:
Post a Comment