HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 15:30, Dec 17

AAP General News (Australia)
12-17-1999
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 15:30, Dec 17

CANBERRA - Prime Minister John Howard today foreshadowed the end of the dole as we
know it, with almost all unemployment benefit recipients expected to work. (JOBS HOWARD,
see also JOBS BEAZLEY, JOBS ABBOTT, JOBS ACOSS, JOBS WELFARE, JOBS NIGHTLEAD to come,
JOBS GLANCE to come, JOBS CASE to come)



SYDNEY - Sydney Olympic organisers have been forced to write off another $100 million
in projected sponsorship revenue, leaving SOCOG management the difficult task of finding
cuts of between $50 million and $100 million to balance the budget. (OLY BUDGET. N/L to
come)

SYDNEY - Global sporting goods manufacturer Reebok and Sydney Olympics organisers will
return to the New South Wales Supreme Court next year in an action over an alleged breach
of contract. (OLY REEBOK)



SYDNEY - Radio broadcaster John Laws today was ordered to stand trial on a charge of
soliciting information about the secret deliberations of a jury from a juror. (LAWS LEAD,
N/L to come)



SYDNEY - Anti-tobacco groups appeared in the Federal Court today seeking the establishment
of a $500 million a year fund to combat illness caused by smoking and help smokers to
quit. (TOBACCO)



MELBOURNE - A Melbourne court today ordered the extradition of fugitive Mexican banker
Carlos Cabal and his brother-in-law Marco Pasini from Australia. (CABAL, N/L to come)



MELBOURNE - A man who baked hash cookies and fed them to two visiting Mormons who ended
up in hospital was today found guilty of drugging them. (LYNCH, N/L to come)



CANBERRA - Prime Minister John Howard said today his objections to the heroin trial
and safe heroin injecting rooms did not make him a zealot. (HEROIN HOWARD)



CANBERRA - Many Australian children could expect a miserable Christmas because their
parents were addicted to gambling, Prime Minister John Howard said today. (GAMBLING HOWARD)



ADELAIDE - Australian Customs has a Christmas massage for Internet shoppers - make
sure what you buy is legal. (XMAS NET N/L)



SYDNEY - Police have called off the search for a Japanese diver who disappeared without
a trace off a Sydney beach on Wednesday. (DIVE LEAD, N/L to come)



MELBOURNE - Surging oil prices and lower costs have delivered BHP Co Ltd a significantly
better half year net profit of $1.08 billion. (BHP, N/L to come)



PERTH - Australian Test wicket record holder Dennis Lillee today welcomed champion
leg-spinner Shane Warne as his successor. (CRICKET AUST LILLEE)



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