Highlights of the AAP National wire at 20:30 Dec 30 = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-30-1998
Highlights of the AAP National wire at 20:30 Dec 30 = 2

CANBERRA - A woman awarded the Order of Australia Medal for her work with drug addicts had
16 balloons filled with heroin under her car seat when she was arrested in Canberra on
Christmas Eve, a court heard today. (HEROIN)



CANBERRA - The ACT government will consider introducing laws to legally protect people who
go to the aid of others in emergency and to compel people to allow others to use their phones
to make emergency calls. (SAMARITAN)



CANBERRA - One Nation was trying to whip up fear among extremists and bolster flagging
support with its pro-capital punishment New South Wales law and order policy, federal
opposition justice spokesman Duncan Kerr said today. (NATION KERR)



SYDNEY - Fred Kelly rarely talked about the horrors of the Great War and never once marched
on Anzac Day. (KELLY)



SYDNEY - A man and a woman found dead in a car wreck possibly staged to conceal a
murder-suicide had been involved in a long-term relationship in France, police said today.
(CLIFF NIGHTLEAD)



SYDNEY - Disgruntled amateur boxing officials will try to form an alliance of contact
sports and put pressure on the NSW government to lift its restrictions on junior and female
boxers. (BOXING GIRLS)



PERTH - A drug-fuelled Christmas Day riot in one of Western Australia's maximum security
jails would be thoroughly investigated by an independent inquiry, the Justice Ministry said
today. (RIOT)



BRISBANE - One of the regular figures seen on the six o'clock news during Queensland's
Fitzgerald corruption inquiry in the late 1980s was "the big man", Hector Hapeta. (HAPETA)



BRISBANE - The Queensland government has dismissed claims the state's ambulance service did
not have the capacity to deliver free services to an estimated 850,000 pensioners from Friday.
(AMBULANCE)



BRISBANE - Police have arrested a 26-year-old labourer and charged him with the murder of
16-year-old north Queensland schoolgirl Rachel Antonio, whose body has never been found.
(RACHEL)



MELBOURNE - Fresh plans were approved today for a new $250 million private university for
Melbourne, but they could still mean the demolition of 15 historic terrace houses.
(UNIVERSITY)



MELBOURNE - Firefighters are confident they will control a bushfire burning through a fauna
and flora reserve in Victoria's remote and semi-arid north-west tonight. (BUSHFIRES VIC
CONTROL)



ADELAIDE - The South Australian government today offered a $1,000 reward to catch those who
spray painted a racist slogan on and ringbarked a 300-year-old tree that is significant to
local Aborigines. (TREE)



ADELAIDE - An Adelaide council is poised to launch a speed limit on all its residential
streets in what is believed to be an Australian first. (SPEED)

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