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WELLINGTON - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has dismissed calls for her toapologise to Australia over comments she made about the Iraq war. (Iraq NZ Clark Lead)
CANBERRA - Australian fishers say they get more satisfaction releasing their catchthan taking it home, a new survey has found. (FISH to come)
CANBERRA - Australians were warned today of possible terror attacks in Russia. (TerrorAust Russia)
CANBERRA - ATSIC Deputy Chairman Ray Robinson today defended the indigenous organisationagainst calls for the government to act against it. (ATSIC to come)
CANBERRA - The federal government had let families down by jettisoning any plans toboost work and family assistance from its upcoming budget, Labor said today. (Iraq BudgetSecond Daylead)
CANBERRA - The federal government was today called on to fix a national crisis in Aboriginalhealth. (HEALTH to come)
SYDNEY - A NSW woman left severely brain damaged after a botched forceps delivery todayhad her $14.2 million payout reduced to nearly $11 million. (Simpson. N/L to come.)
SYDNEY - A teenager who broke his neck after diving off a seaside jetty is suing aNSW council and two church groups for $7 million. (WEEDON. N/L to come)
SYDNEY - Federal Opposition Foreign Affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd today said he was"absolutely" behind Simon Crean's leadership of the Labor Party. (Labor Rudd)
MENANGLE - The NSW opposition today called for a police investigation into the failureto close a rail bridge immediately after structural problems were found. (Rail Brogden.
N/L to come.)
SYDNEY - Australian Medical Association president Kerryn Phelps was recovering welltoday after a pulmonary embolism shut down half her lung capacity. (Phelps)
MELBOURNE - A quick-thinking teacher averted a potential disaster when the driver ofa schoolbus collapsed at the wheel on a Melbourne freeway today. (Schoolbus)
MELBOURNE - A Melbourne man accused of murdering a six-year-old girl 20 years ago hadconfessed to the killing, a court heard today. (Clarke)
MELBOURNE - A 32-year-old nanny will appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court thismorning charged with the rape of two young children. (Nanny. More to come.)
MELBOURNE - The great Australian sickie is estimated to cost business $2.56 billiona year but employers appear reluctant to address absenteeism in enterprise agreements.
(ABSENTEEISM To come
MELBOURNE - Victorian Premier Steve Bracks today ruled out any changes to stamp dutyon property purchases, despite figures which reveal charges have risen by 60 per centin three years. (Stamp Duty Vic)
BRISBANE - A mother caused brain damage to her second new born baby just a year aftershe was sentenced for causing similar bashing and shaking injuries to her first child,a court was told today. (Baby)
BRISBANE - Staff and students from a prestigious Brisbane private school have returnedtwo weeks early from a trip to China because of fears over the deadly Severe Acute RespiratorySyndrome (SARS). (SARS School)
BRISBANE - A pilot inspired by Pauline Hanson is One Nation's candidate for the Maryboroughby-election in Queensland. (Maryborough)
BRISBANE - An emergency beacon today drew rescuers to a yacht which was abandoned offthe northern NSW coast last month. (Beacon)
BRISBANE - A 16-year-old boy was beaten around the head with an iron bar while on hisway to school today, the Queensland Ambulance Service said. (Boy)
ADELAIDE - Another juror has been discharged from South Australia's so-called bodies-in-the-barrelsmurder trial. (SNOWTOWN).
ADELAIDE - Fifty years after the first Redex around Australia reliability trial thehistoric event will be re-run. (MOTOR REDEX).
ADELAIDE - The war against Iraq and the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS) would cause in a dramatic slump in tourism, the South Australian opposition saidtoday. (Iraq SARS Tourism )
PERTH - The assault trial of West Coast Eagles player Andrew Embley has been abandonedand the charges dismissed. (Embley)
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