CANBERRA FRONTERS

AAP General News (Australia)
12-23-1998
CANBERRA FRONTERS

CANBERRA, Dec 23 AAP - The main stories in The Canberra Times:

Page 1: The HIV and hepatitis B health scare that engulfed 255 former maternity patients of
the Canberra Hospital recedes for the 100 women who have tested negative (local); At least
eight building companies who worked on the Defence Department's $250 million Russell
redevelopment project have not been paid for tens of thousands of dollars of work (local); Two
Wollongong men claiming to be policemen entered a Calwell man's house and assaulted him,
threatening him with a knife and binding him with belts and telephone wires, the ACT
Magistrates Court hears (local).

Page 2: Leaders of the Australian union movement are divided over whether ACTU secretary
Bill Kelty should stand aside for a younger leader (Melbourne, AAP).

Page 3: Federal government funding of universities will be reduced by $400 million by 200,
a new report reveals (AAP).

World: America's four-day bombing campaign against Iraq was a success but United States
forces would stay in the Persian Gulf because Saddam Hussein still pose a threat, Marine Corps
General Anthony Zinni says (Washington, AP); A Chinese court sentences a third leader of the
opposition China Democracy Party, Qin Yongmin, to 12 years' jail (Beijing, AP, AAP).

Finance: The appointment of three stockbroking firms to run the next Telsta sale before the
sale had even been approved by parliament was an insult to democracy, the Australian Democrats
say (AAP).

Sport: Greg Blewett joins two elite groups of Australian cricketers as he leads an
Australian XI to a crushing win against an English side that its manager Graham Gooch blasts
as "totally abject" (Hobart, AAP).

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KEYWORD: FRONTERS ACT

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