HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30 = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-1999
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30 = 2

CANBERRA - Australians travelling overseas to their nearest neighbours risked Y2K disruptions
in Indonesia, Thailand and Papua New Guinea, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
(DFAT) warned today. (Y2K TRAVEL)

CANBERRA - The federal government today said it had done all it could to try to stop
the flow of illegal immigrants to Australia. (BOAT NIGHTLEAD, see also BOAT VANSTONE)

CANBERRA - Australia's lamb industry was looking brighter despite the controversial
United States decision to impose damaging tariffs, the Sheepmeat Council of Australia
said today. (US LAMB)

SYDNEY - More than half of New South Wales' 23,000 public servants are set to receive
a 16 per cent pay rise following successful negotiations between unions and the government.

(WAGES)

SYDNEY - Neighbours reported witnessing a fight moments before the stabbing murder
of an accountant outside his southern Sydney home unit overnight. (SUSPICIOUS NIGHTLEAD)

SYDNEY - Company executives should not go along with dishonest decisions made by their
superiors, even if it meant they could be sacked, a judge warned today. (BOSKOVITZ)

SYDNEY - Ten years after the northern New South Wales town of Kempsey awoke to the
sound of screams and screeching metal, the community is still deeply scarred by the double-coach
crash that killed 35 people. (KEMPSEY)

MELBOURNE - A coroner has ordered that a report on the Linton bushfires in which five
firefighters died last year not be published ahead of an upcoming inquest. (LINTON NIGHTLEAD)

MELBOURNE - The Uniting Church has issued an urgent appeal for Christmas gifts for
the needy following a decline in donations but an increase in those seeking help. (XMAS
GIFTS)

MELBOURNE - A union is preparing to take on Telstra over expectations that the telecommunications
giant will close its call centre in Bendigo. (TELSTRA BENDIGO)

MELBOURNE - A magistrate today reminded the driver of a car which struck and killed
a five-year-old girl what a tragic Christmas her family faced. (NICOLA)

MELBOURNE - An ambulance royal commission will investigate whether ministers or officials
of the previous Victorian government engaged in illegal or improper conduct. (AMBULANCE)

MELBOURNE - The textile workers' union has sought Australian Industrial Relations Commission
intervention to save the jobs of 26 Melbourne workers who are to be made redundant on
Christmas eve. (AUSTRIM)

BRISBANE, Dec 21 AAP - Children under 16 were the main victims of sex abuse which in
many cases was carried out by relatives or people they knew, Queensland's Criminal Justice
Commission (CJC) said today.(ABUSE)



BRISBANE - One Nation - a name synonymous with Australia's right-wing political movement
- will be erased from Queensland's political landscape from tomorrow when the state's
breakaway alliance announces a new name. (NATION QLD)

BRISBANE - The Australian government is monitoring a US police investigation into the
shooting murder of a Gold Coast woman in Philadelphia. (FEEHAN)

BRISBANE - Applications for five-year tree clearing permits for leasehold land would
be processed under tough new guidelines, no matter when they were lodged, the Queensland
government announced today. (TREES)

BRISBANE - At least $2 billion will pour out of tourists' pockets and purses into Queensland
tills this summer, Tourism Minister Merri Rose revealed today. (TOURISM)

ADELAIDE - A national park declared in South Australia's Gawler Ranges today is to
be developed into a significant tourist attraction. (GAWLER)

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