Highlights of the AAP National wire at 15:30 = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-1999
Highlights of the AAP National wire at 15:30 = 2



CANBERRA - Business confidence in the Australian economy soared to new heights in August, a
new survey today found. (ECONOMY - EMBARGOED)



CANBERRA - ATSIC has written to the United Nations to complain about the Howard
government's response to concerns from a UN racial discrimination committee about its native
title legislation. (ATSIC UN to come)



CANBERRA - The federal government has snubbed a bid by Sydney Olympic organisers to use
work for the dole participants to ease an expected labour shortage during the Games. (OLY
JOBS)



CANBERRA - A Senate inquiry should be held as a matter of urgency into the growing
environmental problems threatening the future of the Great Barrier Reef, Australian Democrats
Senator Andrew Bartlett said today. (REEF)



SYDNEY - Australian scientists have announced a breakthrough daily preventative
treatment for genital herpes. (HERPES)



SYDNEY - The number of hip fractures suffered by Australians is set to rise by
15 per cent to nearly 21,000 cases a year by 2006, researchers say. (OSTEOPOROSIS)



SYDNEY - NSW Premier Bob Carr today denied he would veto the introduction of
Keno in NSW pubs. (KENO)



SYDNEY - The New South Wales government has denied allegations it covered up an oil spill
in Sydney Harbour last month, saying the so-called spill was only muddy water. (OILSPILL)



SYDNEY - The Australian salmon industry has supported a decision by supermarket
giant Coles not to handle raw salmon imports. (SALMON)



MELBOURNE - Shell is using an industrial dispute at its Geelong refinery in Victoria as an
excuse to raise fuel prices, the Australian Workers' Union (AWU) claimed today. (SHELL)



MELBOURNE - About 7,000 people across Victoria gave up their warm beds to doss down in the
rain and cold outdoors overnight to raise half a million dollars for the homeless. (SLEEPOUT
VIC)



BRISBANE - Bone lazy people were more likely to suffer fractures than those with a more
active lifestyle, the Chiropractors' Association of Australia said today. (BONES)



PERTH - A 29-year-old man threatened to kill police last night after he failed
in an attempt to commit suicide. (HOSEPIPE)



ADELAIDE - A man is missing, feared drowned, after falling overboard from a
dinghy in the Murray River this morning. (DROWN)



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