HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, Aug 11

AAP General News (Australia)
08-11-2010
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, Aug 11

POLL10:

CANBERRA - Labor has extended its crackdown on welfare recipients by demanding parents
take their children for compulsory health checks or miss out on benefits. (Poll10 2nd
Update)

CANBERRA - Unemployed Australians will get a grant of up to $6,000 if they up stumps
and move to get work under a re-elected Labor government, Prime Minister Julia Gillard
says. (Poll10 Gillard Work Update) See also Poll10 Health Update, Poll10 Work Hockey

MELBOURNE - Coalition finance spokesman Andrew Robb says his party will withhold 20
of its policies from budget costings until the source of a leaked confidential Treasury
analysis is investigated. (Poll10 Budget Update)

SYDNEY - Labor has lied about the effects of its stimulus package on creating jobs
during the global financial crisis, opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey says. (Poll10
Economy Update)

To come: Poll10 Wrap, Poll10 Gillard Wrap, Poll10 Abbott Wrap

Also coverage of town-hall meeting of voters with Gillard (1800) then Abbott (1900) at Rooty Hill



CANBERRA - Labor plans to spend $2.1 billion on a 14-kilometre rail link to ease congestion
in Sydney's western suburbs. (Poll10 Rail Update)

BUCHANAN - As federal and NSW Labor join forces on two multi-billion dollar infrastructure
projects, they insist the relationship between the two branches of the party has never
been anything but friendly. (Poll10 Rail Keneally, with pix)

See also Poll10 Rail Abbott, Poll10 Rail Libs, Poll10 Rail Reax, Poll10 Rail Union,
Poll10 Rail Oppn

To come: Coverage of Gillard/Keneally presser expected this afternoon in Sydney, Poll10
Rail Wrap to come



CANBERRA - Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says a coalition government will pick up where
it left off in 2007 on plans to save the Murray-Darling Basin. (Poll10 Murray Update)
See also Poll10 Murray Greens

DALGETY - Labor has promised more water will flow down the once mighty Snowy River
if it is re-elected on August 21. (Poll10 Snowy, with pix)

Poll10 Murray Wrap to come



PAKENHAM - It wasn't Mark Latham that upstaged Prime Minister Julia Gillard during
campaigning on Wednesday, although it was another elephant in the room. (Poll10 Elephant)

PAKENHAM - Julia Gillard has enjoyed a personalised meat pie while on the campaign
trail in Victoria. (Poll10 Gillard Pie)

See also Poll10 Sturrock; Ratings on E category



CANBERRA - Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has defended his lack of technical expertise
when it comes to broadband by comparing himself to a good car driver who doesn't understand
how an engine works. (Poll10 Broadband Abbott)

See also Poll10 Broadband Kelly, Poll10 Boat Abbott



SYDNEY - No matter who wins the federal election, there's likely to be a stranger in
the house. (Poll10 Partners, AAP Newsfeature)

CANBERRA - Martin O'Shannessy wasn't wrong when he likened his latest Newspoll to a
soccer match still drawn after extra time. (Poll10 Newspoll, AAP News Analysis)



CAIRNS - Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has moved his marginal seats campaign to
North Queensland. (Poll10 Rudd) Outwatching



See also Poll10 Shooters, Poll10 Afghanistan, Poll10 Greens, APPEA Ferguson





OTHER NEWS:



SYDNEY - Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd (CBA) has posted a 20 per cent increase
in full year net profit to $5.66 billion, but issued a cautious outlook due to global
economic uncertainty. (CBA 2nd Update) Wrap to come



SYDNEY - A water polo champion did not murder her newborn baby but took the "responsible"

course in handing her over to the infant's father, a jury has been told. (Lane Update)
Wrap to come



MELBOURNE - Sacked AFL player Andrew Lovett told his former club manager he didn't
have to rape women because he could get "whatever chicks I want", a court has heard. (Lovett
Update) Wrap to come



GOLD COAST - There's no environmental threat from a barge ripped from its moorings
and swept onto a Gold Coast beach, the operators of a desalination plant say. (Barge Update)
Wrap to come

BRISBANE - More than 20 people have been plucked from a life raft off Queensland after
violent weather pushed their vessel onto a reef, where it capsized. (Rescue 2nd Update)
Wrap to come

MELBOURNE - A tornado has hit the Murray River town of Moama, damaging homes and ripping
up trees. (Tornado)

MELBOURNE - Melbourne will escape the strong winds and heavy rain that has hit the
southwest of the state causing flash flooding and landslips. (Weather Vic) Outwatching

HOBART - Heavy rain has forced the closure of roads in north-east Tasmania, with many
parts of the state on flood alert. (Weather Tas)



SYDNEY - Football Federation Australia is expected to announce the new Socceroos coach
in 4pm AEST teleconference with chairman Frank Lowy from Ljubljana. (Soccer Aust Wrap)
to come plus backgrounder, factbox, analysis and sidebars on merit.



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