National Newslist for Friday, August 1, 2008

AAP General News (Australia)
08-01-2008
National Newslist for Friday, August 1, 2008
Good Morning News Editors and Chiefs of Staff
AAP's National Newslist for today (not for publication). This is a guide only and stories
are subject to change.

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NATIONAL
ECONOMY:
- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warns banks they have a responsibility to pass onto borrowers
any cut in official interest rates
- Rudd refuses to say if economy slowing too rapidly; predicts tougher times ahead for
family budgets

LEADERSHIP
- Federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson says he will lead the coalition to the next election.

- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he doesn't have a clue whether or not Peter Costello
will seize the federal Liberal leadership.

OLY08:
BEIJING - Aust team press conference with AOC boss John Coates and kayaker Clint Robinson
0900 (1100 AEST)
BEIJING - Olympic organisers/IOC presser, competition organisation 1100 (1300 AEST)
BEIJING - Olyroos get their Olympic uniforms, 1200 (1400 AEST)
BEIJING - Kookaburras get their Olympic uniforms, 1600 (1800 AEST)
HONG KONG - News as Australia's track and field team starts its camp in Hong Kong
KUALA LUMPUR - News from Australian swim team as they prepare to head to Beijing
NANJING, China - Boomers in final men's basketball Diamond Ball tournament match v reigning
Olympic champions Argentina 1930 (2030 AEST)

INTERNATIONAL
Athens - An Australian tourist in a coma after a clash with bouncers at a Greek nightclub
may be taken off life support as early as today, his family says.

Singapore - ABC foreign correspondent Peter Lloyd due back in court on drug charges

COURTS
SYDNEY
- Sentencing submissions for DL, convicted of murdering school girl Tanya Burges in stabbing
frenzy on Central Coast
- Decision on whether Jeffrey Gilham will be retried over the murder of his parents
BRISBANE
- Woman to appear in Cairns court charged over death of newborn baby whose dismembered
body was found 12 years ago.

- Former head of a major Queensland electricity company to face a committal hearing next
year over allegations of insider trading.

MELBOURNE
- Accused terror suspect Jack Thomas to seek leave to appeal against a decision to retry
him, High Court, 9.30am
- Sentence for a horse riding instructor charged with indecent assault and gross indecency
on his students, County Court, 9.30am
ADELAIDE
- Assault trial continues in Coober Pedy for Aboriginal leader Bernard Singer

ENTERTAINMENT
- Chasing report that photos of a girl believed to be one of The Veronicas have been put
on an international pornography site

CANBERRA
- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd backs incoming governor-general Quentin Bryce's right to appoint
her own staff
- Rudd says burying fallen Fromelles soldiers individually almost 100 years on is "the
decent thing to do"; great nephew of one of the Australian soldiers elated his uncle finally
will be given a dignified individual burial.

- Senate inquiry reports Press on Australia's involvement in peacekeeping.

- Leading trade union officials begin regional tour of members to talk about ETS green paper.

- Builders says construction industry needs national watchdog.

SYDNEY
- The NRMA due to appear before the Senate inquiry into the FuelWatch scheme. 1300.

- Charges laid over murder of a Sydney man five years ago, whose body has never been found
- Unions have accused Telstra of dipping into the pay packets of up to 20,000 staff on
individual employment contracts, but the telco says it is simply complying with the law.

- A disgraced doctor's explanations for providing obstetric services he was banned from
doing were contrived and unconvincing, a report has found.

- Infrastructure Partnerships Australia Conference. Speakers include Anthony Albanese
and Barry O'Farrell. On merit.

- Chasing up an email Joe Tripodi mistakenly sent to journalists, calling on state MPs
to come up with good news announcements and visit the Central Coast and Illawarra regions
during the Olympics
- Electricity workers are rallying outside the Sydney offices of Integral Energy, where
merger talks are due to be held today.

- Hundreds of transport workers have marched on a western Sydney supermarket, in a call
for Australia's major retailers to help absorb their rising costs.

MELBOURNE
- TAC Minister Tim Holding to launch new TAC anti-drug driving campaign. Prahran police
station, 0930
- Outseeking anything on Sam Newman's latest outburst on the AFL Footy Show
- Outseeking more on situation at troubled Ballarat nursing home Kirralee, with staff
saying their still unsure of their futures.

- 30th anniversary celebrations for Bionic Ear. On merit
- Both lines between Melbourne and Sydney remain blocked after a goods train derailed
in north-east Victoria

BRISBANE
- Swimmer Nick D'Arcy may not be in Beijing, but he's keeping his hand in for charity.

- Queensland government to regulate Xstrata's heavy metal emissions control in Mount Isa.

- Australia's biggest piggery sold to US-based giant PIC.

- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Brisbane. No word yet on media engagement.

ADELAIDE
- South Australian government says a long-running pay dispute with public hospital doctors
has been resolved
- Six departments will get new chief executives in a major shake-up of the South Australian
public service
- Public rally to save the River Murray at parliament house
- SA govt wishes the state's Olympians and Paralympians the best of luck in Beijing.

FINANCE:
ECONOMICS NEWS:
Sydney - Australian manufacturing activity has hit a near three-year low as high interest
rates slow the economy, a report shows.

Sydney - RBA commodity price index for July
Sydney - TD Securities/Melbourne Institute inflation gauge for July
Canberra - HIA building hot spots report for 2007/08

EQUITIES NEWS:
- Suncorp Metway Ltd will leave its fiscal 2008 final dividend unchanged and has forecast
flat dividend growth for fiscal 2009 after bad weather and the credit crunch almost halved
its annual profit.

- CSR Limited will spend $17.8 million to increase its ethanol production capacity to
60 million litres per annum, the company announced today.

ROUTINERS:
Stocks, Dollar, Credit, Finance Week

SPORT:
AFL
MELBOURNE - AFL match: Collingwood v Hawthorn, MCG, 1940
MELBOURNE - Preview Geelong v Richmond match Saturday
MELBOURNE - Preview Melbourne v Essendon match Saturday
GOLD COAST - Preview North Melbourne v Brisbane match Saturday
PERTH - Presser for coaches ahead of West Coast v Fremantle derby match

LEAGUE
SYDNEY - Coach Ricky Stuart to name 40-man squad for World Cup 1100
CANBERRA - Raiders expect to learn whether wayward star Todd Carney will accept the strict
terms of their ultimatum if he's to stay at the club, 0930 presser
SYDNEY - Update on Sonny Bill Williams saga
SYDNEY - NRL match: Melbourne v Gold Coast, Olympic Park, 1945
SYDNEY - NRL match: Manly v Penrith, Brookvale Oval, 1945
SYDNEY - Preview Cronulla v St Geo-Illawarra match Saturday
BRISBANE - Preview North Queensland v Sydney Roosters match Saturday
SYDNEY - Preview South Sydney v NZ Warriors match Saturday

RUGBY
AUCKLAND - Preview Tri Nations and Bledisloe Cup Test Australia v New Zealand on Saturday
AUCKLAND - Halfback Jimmy Cowan and hooker Andrew Hore will start for the All Blacks in
Saturday's crunch Bledisloe Cup Test against Australia at Eden Park.

SOCCER
SYDNEY - Newcastle Jets to announce Ecuadorean striker Edmundo Zura as the A-League club's
marquee player today

MOTORSPORT
WINTON, Vic - V8 Supercar round at Winton gets underway

GOLF
AKRON, Ohio - Cover of Aussies in WGC Bridgestone Invitational first round
SUNNINGDALE, England - Aussies in Women's British Open first round
COLORADO SPRINGS - Greg Norman in US Senior Open first round

RACING
MELBOURNE - Preview of Saturday's Caulfield meeting.

BRISBANE - Preview of Saturday's Doomben meeting.

SYDNEY - Preview of Saturday's Rosehill meeting.

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