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AAP General News (Australia)
12-22-2011
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CANBERRA - Providers of aged care say there's a huge shortage in the number of care
packages available for older Australians wanting to remain in their own homes for as long
as possible - and the situation is going to get worse. (Aged)

CANBERRA - A man who migrated from New Zealand may have his Australian citizenship
revoked because he did not declare several criminal convictions. (Citizenship)

CANBERRA - A referendum should be held in 2013 to include local government in the constitution
to secure its commonwealth funding, an expert panel has recommended. (Councils)

SYDNEY - A smear of blood under the desk of a man accused of murdering five family
members came from the Sydney crime scene, the crown has alleged. (Legal: Xie)

SYDNEY - The clean car industry has been dealt a massive blow after a plan to make
NSW petrol stations sell more environmentally friendly fuel was suspended, the state opposition
says. (Biodiesel Wrap)

MELBOURNE - A murder that strained relations between India and Australia wasn't a racist
attack but a spontaneous armed robbery by a teenage boy that went wrong. (Legal: Garg
Wrap)

MELBOURNE - Thousands of Victorians needing urgent medical attention are waiting too
long for care in the state's public hospitals. (Hospitals Vic)

MELBOURNE - A 62-year-old man with mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos at a James
Hardie factory almost 40 years ago has had a $1 million compensation payout upheld by
an appeals court. (Legal: King)

MELBOURNE - Rapists should be afraid - a new cold case team is out to solve 20 of Victoria's
worst sex crimes of the past three decades using advances in forensic technology. (Elite
Wrap)

MELBOURNE - Victoria was the only state to have a private capital expenditure slump
in 2010-11, figures show. (Investment Vic)

MELBOURNE - Melbourne commuters will get a little price relief on their "myki" cards,
but public transport costs are set to jump next year. (Myki Wrap)

BRISBANE - A Sunlander passenger train will remain in service despite a five-year-old
boy falling from a carriage in mysterious circumstances in far north Queensland. (Train
Wrap)

BRISBANE - Queensland police are using the internet to encourage the public to be their
eyes and ears in the fight against crime in local neighbourhoods. (Blog)

BRISBANE - The RSPCA's Queensland wildlife shelter is set to receive a huge upgrade
thanks to party wigs, an acoustic guitar and some Jimmy Choo designer shoes. (Parcels)

PERTH - Police in Perth are hopeful a man who ran off with his two children after allegedly
assaulting his wife will return his toddler son after he handed over his baby daughter.

(Kidnap Update)

PERTH - Western Australia's indigenous affairs minister has refused to comment on an
Aboriginal group's claim he eased mine consent conditions to help his mining magnate friend
Andrew Forrest. (Fortescue YAC)

PERTH - Convicted murderer Cameron Mansell has been convicted of contempt of court
after refusing three times in two days to appear via video link in the Perth Magistrates
Court to face stealing charges. (Legal: Mansell)

PERTH - The family of a woman who was tied to a chair, doused in flammable liquid and
set alight is believed to be flying to Perth from China to be by her hospital bed. (Burns)

ADELAIDE - South Australian Road Safety Minister Jennifer Rankine says all motorists
should take responsibility for their driving over the Christmas period. (Toll SA )

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