HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Dec 3

AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-2001
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Dec 3



CANBERRA - About 30 Australian SAS troops arrived in Afghanistan today to join the
United States Marines in a likely ground assault on the Taliban's last southern Afghanistan
stronghold, Kandahar. (Terror Aust Nightlead)



SYDNEY - The HIH Royal Commissioner Justice Neville Owen is calling in the police to
investigate how a confidential document relating to the inquiry was leaked to a magazine.

(HIH Leak. N/L to come.)



CANBERRA - Australian retail trade figures jumped 1.3 per cent in October, paces ahead
of what market analysts had predicted. (Economy. N/L to come.)



SYDNEY - The Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to make an "insurance" rate cut
after its board meeting tomorrow, with economists suggesting that there may also be more
reductions to come in 2002. (Economy Rates)



MELBOURNE - The lives of other spectators were probably saved when a track marshal
took the full force of a flying wheel at this year's Australian Grand Prix, an inquest
heard today. (Marshal. N/L to come.)



CANBERRA - The Australian Greens today claimed the last Senate spot in New South Wales.

(Senate NSW. N/L to come.)



LOS ANGELES - Actor Elliott Gould led an angry rally in Hollywood today to protest
the loss of film projects to Australia, Canada and other blossoming movie destinations.

(US Movies)



PERTH - A father who's son and daughter-in-law were among 21 people killed in a flash
flood in Switzerland says it has been frustrating waiting two years for a manslaughter
trial to begin. (INTERLAKEN to come.)



DARWIN - A woman has been abducted from a bus after a terrifying chase along a lonely
central Australian desert road, police said today. (Abduct. Seeking more)



BEAUTY POINT - It's a world where the males get pregnant, it's sexy to be fat and monogamy
just doesn't happen. (Seahorse)



SYDNEY - Enron Australia today appointed voluntary administrators, after its parent
company Enron Corp filed for bankruptcy in the United States. (Enron Australia. More to
come)



PERTH - New Zealand has made a steady start as it tries to build a big lead in the
deciding third test against Australia. (Cricket Aust N/L to come.)



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