FED:HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, Dec 162010

AAP General News (Australia)
12-16-2010
FED:HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, Dec 162010

MELBOURNE - The head of Melbourne's fire brigade has quit in disgrace after a female
employee accused him of sexually harassing her. (MFB Wrap)



PERTH - A bushfire that threatened lives and homes in an eastern Perth suburb has been
brought under control. (Bushfires WA)



MELBOURNE - A policeman involved in the fatal shooting of Tyler Cassidy felt the teenager
was intent on killing him and he had no choice but to shoot, an inquest into the youth's
death has heard. (Cassidy Wrap)



MELBOURNE - The killer of Indian boy Gurshan Singh Channa held the hand of an investigating
policeman, looked into his eyes, confessed to his actions and wept. (Dhillon Wrap)



BRISBANE - The head of a major financer of collapsed Gold Coast property group Octaviar
trusted the company could repay a major loan within a week, and didn't question the source
of a $100 million repayment. (Octaviar)



SYDNEY - Two women claiming the same man sexually assaulted them in the toilets of
two exclusive Sydney nightspots have given "inconsistent" statements, a court has heard.

(Corben Wrap)



SYDNEY - A very drunk driver who crashed her car, killing a woman and permanently injuring
the dead woman's husband, has had her minimum jail term increased by two years. (Woodbridge)



SYDNEY - Portable barbecues should carry poison warnings about charcoal after a man
died when he took one inside to cook, a NSW coroner says. (AlMayahi)



SYDNEY - The jail term imposed on a cocaine dealer, who is the nephew of media identity
Ita Buttrose, is too long, the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal has been told. (Buttrose)



MELBOURNE - The father of a teenager who suffered brain injuries in a gang attack outside
a nightclub has lashed out at a judge for sparing his attackers jail time. (Asian)



ADELAIDE - A West Australian man took just 20 minutes to terrorise five people in Snowtown,
north of Adelaide, but is unfit to stand trial. (Behari)



ADELAIDE - A Victorian man jailed for killing Adelaide teenager Carly Ryan never admitted
to murder, only to manslaughter, a court has heard. (Ryan)



ADELAIDE - A mix-up over courts was the reason a former refugee, who indecently assaulted
a girl on an Adelaide train, failed to appear for sentencing submissions on Thursday.

(Sidaqat Wrap)



SYDNEY - Experts have been "blown away" by the case of a man cured of HIV, yet they
caution his treatment was too risky to be offered broadly to the world's HIV-infected
population. (HIV Cure Aust)



CANBERRA - About 200 people gathered in Canberra's city centre to demand the release
of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (WikiLeaks Protest)



BRISBANE - A major study will decide whether RAAF veterans and workers whose health
was damaged by chemicals might pass on the effects to their children. (F111)



BRISBANE - A series of ship groundings off Queensland while marine pilots were onboard
has sparked a high-level safety investigation. (Coastal Wrap)



MELBOURNE - A stunning Portsea cliff-top mansion has sold for more than $25 million,
breaking the Victorian residential property market sale record. (Mansion Update)



ADELAIDE - South Australia's Treasurer Kevin Foley doesn't want to be like an Australian
cricket captain who doesn't know when it's time to step down. (Foley)



BRISBANE - An Australian car club will put an electric vehicle through its paces over
the next three years to test its "real life" performance for motorists. (Car)



SYDNEY - Opposition to Sydney's $6 billion Barangaroo development is mounting, with
the NSW government's approval of the expansion plans described as "a disgraceful act".

(Barangaroo 2nd Wrap)



CANBERRA - The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is facing calls for its
incoming advice to the federal government to be made public. (DFAT)



SYDNEY - Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman wish they could stay in Australia for Christmas
but their busy schedules won't allow it. (Urban)



SYDNEY - Calling all dancing queens. You are invited to groove to ABBA's greatest hits
at a new, interactive exhibition at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum. (Abba)



BRISBANE - Two people have died in a crash between a ute and a truck south of Stanthorpe
near the Queensland-NSW border. (Toll Qld)



BRISBANE - A man has been found dead at a home west of Brisbane. (Body)



LAUNCESTON - A Tasmanian man has been stabbed after finding two men trying to steal
property from his yard, police say. (Stab)



SYDNEY - A man has been charged with sexually assaulting a young woman as she lay on
a bench at a Sydney train station. (Bench Update)



GOLD COAST - Four alleged bikies have been charged with assault over the attack on
a man on the Gold Coast earlier this year. (Hydra)



BRISBANE - Police have found the body of a kayaker who failed to surface after going
over a waterfall in far north Queensland. (Kayak Update)



SYDNEY - A mother and her three children have been reported missing after they were
last seen getting into a car in a northern NSW town. (Eason)



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