HighLights of the AAP National Wire = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-13-2011
HighLights of the AAP National Wire = 2

SYDNEY - The Ambulance Service of NSW says no lives have been at risk despite the computer
system it uses to send paramedics to emergencies being infected by a virus for more than
24 hours and no timescale for when it will be back online.(Ambulance NSW Update)

Ambulance NSW Wrap to come.

SYDNEY - The bodies of some of the victims of December's Christmas Island boat crash
have arrived in Sydney for burial. (Boat Bodies)

SYDNEY - NSW Premier Kristina Keneally has indicated a deal is being done to make Transport
Minister John Robertson the next Labor leader, the opposition says. (PollNSW Berejiklian)

SYDNEY - A NSW government package to reduce the number of supervised hours learner
drivers clock up on the roads does nothing to address road deaths, the opposition says.

(PollNSW Drivers Update)

SYDNEY - A motorist with three young unrestrained children in his car allegedly drove
along a highway in NSW's central west at speeds of up to 210km/h and then crashed down
a 10-metre embankment. (Speed)

SYDNEY - A woman has been indecently assaulted at the Good Vibrations music festival
in Sydney. (Missing)

CANBERRA - Learner drivers will have to clock up fewer hours on the road before they
can sit for their P-plates under a re-elected NSW Labor government. (PollNSW Drivers)

BRISBANE - Premier Anna Bligh has defended her decision to become Minister for Reconstruction
saying Queenslanders expect their leader to be consumed by the mammoth task ahead. (Recovery
Authority)

BRISBANE - A Queensland police officer has regained consciousness after he was allegedly
bashed by a 14-year-old boy. (Boy)

Boy Wrap to come.

BRISBANE - Premier Anna Bligh needs to secure federal funding for flood-damaged water
infrastructure or southeast Queenslanders will be slugged with a $50 increase to their
water bills, the opposition says. (Floods Qld to come)

BRISBANE - The equivalent of a year's supply of drinking water will be released from
south-east Queensland's Wivenhoe Dam with further heavy rain forecast for the flooded
region.

(Floods Qld Dam to come).



PERTH - A tourist needed 50 stitches to his elbow after a shark attack in Western Australia's
north. (Shark)

PERTH - A bushfire alert has been downgraded for residents in parts of Muchea northeast
of Perth after firefighters contained a fast-moving bushfire and saved several homes.

(Bushfires WA)

CANBERRA - South Australian Premier Mike Rann has dismissed an opinion poll in an Adelaide
newspaper by comparing the journal with a Soviet-era propaganda rag. (Poll Rann)

DARWIN - A Northern Territory woman who was gardening with her kids has been accidentally
shot with a crossbow, allegedly by a neighbour. (Crossbow)

MELBOURNE - Fire caused about $1 million damage to a 200-square metre mansion in Melbourne's
southeast overnight. (Mansion)

MELBOURNE - Could wedding bells one day be pealing for lovebirds Shane Warne and Elizabeth
Hurley? (Warne) Seeking more.

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