Qld: Courier Mail fronters

AAP General News (Australia)
02-16-2000
Qld: Courier Mail fronters

BRISBANE, Feb 15 AAP - Main stories in Wednesday's first edition of the Courier-Mail:

Page 1 - The chief executive of National Textiles was paid more than $800,000 in directors
fees and bonuses in the three years leading up to the collapse of the company (Canberra).

Farmers fighting tree clearing laws are outraged at a State Government plan to bulldoze
12 hectares of mangroves in north Queensland (local). Milk prices could fall up to
7 cents a litre in July when dairy industry deregulation laws, to be introduced to Federal
Parliament today, take effect (Canberra).

Page 2 - The Australian Democrats will push for women's sanitary products, breast pumps
and nursing pads to be GST-free, despite the Howard Government declaring there would be
no further tax exemptions (Canberra).

Page 3 - The Beattie Government should help Aboriginal community councils close their
liquor outlets and replace them with other business ventures, the State Opposition said
(local). The attackers of Brisbane cyclist Peter Cribb kicked, stomped and jumped on his
head so hard they broke his bike helmet, a Brisbane court was told yesterday (local).

A prison governor in Britain accused by Gold Coast conman Peter Foster of being part of
a corrup network of warders has been suspended (Gold Coast).

World - The United Nations blocking moves by the East Timorese independence movement
and Falantil to form armed "security teams" to patrol the capital (Dili). Deadly tornadoes
hit Georgia (Camilla, Georgia).

Finance - National Mutual Holdings' shareholders ushered in a new era by approving
the company's name change to AXA Asia Pacific Holdings. Vodafone plans to float up to
25 per cent of its Australian business on the Australian Stock Exchange by July. Foster's
Brewing plunges further into global Internet wine retailing, announcing two investments
worth a total of $100 million, including a 25 percent stake in Wine Planet. Australian
investors embrace news that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp could consolidate its satellite
businesses under one umbrella entity.

Sport - Brisbane Broncos and Auckland Warriors yesterday breathed sighs of relief at
the appointment of the game's top referee Bill Harrigan to Sunday's potentially explosive
NRL clash. Linford Christie ordered off all NSW sport tracks despite demands from national
and international athletics associations that the British former world and Olympic champion
be allowed to stay.

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