FED:Image Outlook for Monday, Aug 15

AAP General News (Australia)
08-15-2011
FED:Image Outlook for Monday, Aug 15
Good morning Picture Editors, News Editors and Chiefs of Staff,

This is a list of AAP's planned photographic, video & interactive graphics coverage for today.

This is a guide only and coverage is subject to change.

To locate specific content search the <http://www.aapone.com.au/> AAPONE using keywords
in caps below.

SYDNEY

ANGELIC KARSTROM JAIL RELEASE

Convicted child killer Angelic Karstrom will be released on parole today

HMAS SYDNEY MUSICAL THEATRE
Announcement of a Musical Theatre onboard HMAS Sydney

NRL SHARKS BULLDOGS
NRL Sharks v Bulldogs

MELBOURNE

AFL LEGENDS BOOK LAUNCH

AFL Indigenous Team of the Century book launch at the MCG

BRISBANE

DANIEL MORCOMBE MURDER COURT
Man charged over disappearance of Daniel Morcombe to appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court

CANBERRA

MPs and senators start returning to Canberra

SYDNEY

0930 Barry O'Farrell making entertainment announcement at Garden Island Naval Base

SPORT

AFL action wrap

ENTERTAINMENT/SHOWREEL

Hillary Duff pregnant || Lindsay Lohan enrols in counselling after judge's order || Nickelodeon
Kis' Choice awards voting opens

2011 IAAF ATHLETICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2011 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON

SEPT. 11 10 YEARS
The first release of a larger 10-year anniversary interactive features a before and after,
then and now photo comparison.

AAP EARNINGS SEASON DIARY
Details of ALL company <http://hosted.aap.com.au/interactives/2011_ResultsDiary/EarningsSeasonMaster.html>

earnings reports for the first quarter of the financial year

LONDON RIOTS
An interactive locating areas of rioting in London with photo galleries <http://hosted.ap.org/interactives/2011/london-riots/>

of the various sites is available.

AAP LONDON OLYMPICS 1 YEAR TO GO INTERACTIVE
Medal Hopes, venues, videos sports, stars to watch and more - preview <http://www.aapone.com.au/search.aspx?gallery=Graphics+-+Interactive+Graphics&search=Gallery+%3d+INTERACTIVE>

available now

AFP LONDON 2012
Animated graphic on the venues for the London Olympic Games, which open in
one year's time on July 27, 2012.

TIGER WOODS
Interactive timeline looking at the life and career of golfer Tiger Woods.

US DEBT RATING (UPDATE)
Updated with new reaction and interactive world map showing S&P ratings by country.

EAST AFRICA FAMINE (UPDATE)
Map of famine area has been updated

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NSW: Former Pan boss pleads not guilty to misleading conduct

AAP General News (Australia)
02-02-2007
NSW: Former Pan boss pleads not guilty to misleading conduct

SYDNEY, Feb 2 AAP - Former Pan Pharmaceuticals boss Jim Selim has pleaded not guilty
to misleading the company's board ahead of its collapse in 2003.

Selim, who founded the company in 1974, today pleaded not guilty in the NSW Supreme
Court to four counts of providing misleading information to board members.

The offences allegedly occurred between February and April 2003.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration ordered an operational halt at the company in
April 2003 after a series of complaints about Pan's travel sickness drug Travacalm.

Justice Anthony Whealy today set the matter down for an expected eight-week trial on October 15.

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VIC:Jail term won't scare teens: grieving mum

AAP General News (Australia)
04-18-2011
VIC:Jail term won't scare teens: grieving mum

By Belinda Merhab

MELBOURNE, April 18 AAP - A mother whose son was killed by a drink-driving P-plater
says the 30-month sentence imposed on the offender is not tough enough and won't deter
others from drink-driving.

Daniel Clarke was 19 when he hit a gutter and rolled a friend's parents' Range Rover
at least four times in the early hours of December 16, 2009, in Healesville, northeast
of Melbourne.

His passenger and friend, Jake McAskill, 17, was thrown from the vehicle and died the next day.

Clarke had been drinking beer and whisky in the hours before the crash.

One of his friends had refused to get into the car with him that night, telling him
he was too drunk to drive and urging his three other passengers to get out.

The other passengers later told police that Clarke had been speeding and driving recklessly
before the crash.

A breath test showed his blood alcohol content was 0.043.

Clarke, of Coldstream, pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving causing death.

In the Victorian County Court on Monday, Judge Howard Mason sentenced Clarke to serve
30 months in a youth justice centre.

He took into account Clarke's youth, lack of prior convictions, previous good character,
remorse and excellent prospects of rehabilitation.

Mr McAskill's mother, Deborah, told reporters outside court that the sentence was not
enough to teach Clarke a lesson or get the message through to other teenagers.

"I just don't think that this sentence is going to scare any child who drinks and drives,"

she said.

"It's not sending a message at all, and I don't think two years in the juvenile justice
system is ever, ever, going to make it right."

In sentencing Clarke, Judge Mason said the offence was "extremely serious" and had
had a devastating impact on the McAskill family.

"The family's grief is extreme, the loss incomprehensible and profound," Judge Mason said.

"A beautiful young life has been lost and the emotional consequences will be long lasting."

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KEYWORD: CLARKE WRAP

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FED:Vodafone investigating alleged breach

AAP General News (Australia)
01-09-2011
FED:Vodafone investigating alleged breach

MELBOURNE, Jan 9 AAP - Vodafone is investigating an alleged security breach but denies
customers' personal details are publicly available on the internet.

The mobile phone company has reset all passwords for its web portal, used by employees
and dealers.

Details including names, home addresses, driver's licence numbers and credit card details
have been available on the web in what has been described as an "unbelievable" lapse in
security, Fairfax newspapers reported.

The report said criminal groups have paid for the private details of some Vodafone
customers to blackmail them and other people have obtained logins to check their spouse's
communications.

It said the full extent of the privacy breach is unknown, but it is possible that thousands
of people have logins that can be passed around and used to gain access to the accounts
of about four million Vodafone clients.

A Vodafone spokesman said the company was concerned to hear of the alleged breach.

"Vodafone's customer details are not `publicly available on the internet'," he said
in a statement on Sunday.

"Customer information is stored on Vodafone's internal systems and accessed through
a secure web portal, accessible to authorised employees and dealers via a secure login
and password.

"Any unauthorised access to the portal will be taken very seriously, and would constitute
a breach of employment or dealer agreement and possibly a criminal offence."

The company would investigate the allegations and refer the matter to the Australian
Federal Police if appropriate, the statement said.

The spokesman added that all passwords had been reset and a review is being undertaken
of the training and systems procedures.

Michael Fraser, head of the Australian Communications Law Centre at the University
of Technology, Sydney, told Fairfax it seemed to be a major breach of the company's privacy
obligations and "unbelievably slack security".

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KEYWORD: VODAFONE UPDATE

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SA:Son of Rann attacker to face trial

AAP General News (Australia)
08-20-2010
SA:Son of Rann attacker to face trial

ADELAIDE, Aug 20 AAP - The son of a man who hit South Australian Premier Mike Rann
with a rolled-up magazine will go to trial on an assault charge, even though his alleged
victim doesn't want to proceed.

In Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday, Anton Phillips-Chantelois was ordered to stand
trial on October 12 on aggravated assault and offensive weapons charges.

Police told the court the case would go ahead even though the defence said the alleged
victim did not want to proceed.

The charges related to an incident in Adelaide in December last year, not long after
Phillips-Chantelois' father Rick Phillips had been charged with assaulting Mr Rann at
a business function in October.

In March, Mr Phillips pleaded guilty to assault and was placed on a two-year good behaviour bond.

His estranged wife, Michelle Chantelois, a former waitress at parliament house in Adelaide,
claims to have had an affair with Mr Rann.

The premier has denied the affair but admitted to a flirty friendship.

Phillips-Chantelois, 20, remains free on bail.

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KEYWORD: PHILLIPS-CHANTELOIS

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Qld: Wild rivers will cost jobs, says miner

AAP General News (Australia)
04-13-2010
Qld: Wild rivers will cost jobs, says miner

EDS: Clarifies information in 11th par about size of buffer zones being sought



By Evan Schwarten

CAIRNS, April 13 AAP - More than $1 billion in economic benefits and about 1700 jobs
would be lost if a wild rivers declaration over a fourth Cape York river goes ahead as
planned, the CEO of a controversial mining project has warned.

Cape Alumina CEO Paul Messenger has called on the Queensland government to amend its
proposed declaration for the Wenlock River or risk his company's planned Pisolite Hills
bauxite project.

"The proposed wild rivers declaration is flawed and must be amended," Dr Messenger
told reporters in Cairns on Tuesday.

"If it is amended the project will go ahead and create jobs - if it is not it will
seriously jeopardise the Pisolite Hills project.

"No project, no jobs - it's a pretty simple scenario."

He said an economic impact assessment had shown the project would deliver $600 million
in economic benefits and contribute $1.2 billion to the national GDP over the 15-year
life of the project.

It would also create 1700 jobs, including 1300 full-time jobs, with the biggest beneficiaries
being the nearby indigenous community of Mapoon.

Environmentalists, led by Terri Irwin, have rallied against the mining project and
called on the government to proceed with the declaration in its current form, which places
significant limits on development within the Wenlock Basin.

Almost 300,000 people have signed a Wilderness Society petition supporting the declaration.

Part of the mining lease overlaps the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve and the Irwin family
have argued the project would have a devastating environmental impact.

Cape Alumina has argued for the 500 metre buffers around springs to be reduced to 200
metres, although the company says its operation will not come within 2km of the river
itself.

Dr Messenger urged the government not to be swayed by what he termed "misinformation"

from green groups and sought a decision based on science.

"We will protect the Wenlock River, we will protect all of the areas of environmental
value and we will demonstrate that you can have environmental protection and economic
development co-existing," he said.

The company is due to release an environmental impact study for the project in June
and hopes to begin shipping bauxite by 2012.

The Queensland government is expected to make a decision on the Wenlock wild rivers
declaration proposal in the coming months.

AAP ews/pjo/maur

KEYWORD: RIVERS BAUXITE (REISSUING)

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Fed: Last two Vietnam war MIAs start final journey home

AAP General News (Australia)
08-30-2009
Fed: Last two Vietnam war MIAs start final journey home

By Max Blenkin, Defence Correspondent

CANBERRA, Aug 30 AAP - Australia's last two servicemen missing in action from the Vietnam
war have begun their final journey home.

The remains of Flying Officer Michael Herbert and Pilot Officer Robert Carver, both
lost in 1970, have been placed aboard a RAAF Hercules transport aircraft for the trip
from Hanoi, Vietnam, back to Australia.

Family members and former comrades of the RAAF's 2 Squadron observed the solemn ceremony
at Noi Bai Airfield as their caskets were carried aboard the aircraft.

The family members and former servicemen will accompany them on the journey home.

Parliamentary secretary Dr Mike Kelly said the aircraft would fly to RAAF Base Richmond,
northwest of Sydney, where they would be ceremonially received by current and former members
of 2 Squadron.

"Today, our last remaining Australian Defence Force members from the Vietnam War will
return home. After 39 years, Flying Officer Herbert and Pilot Officer Carver's family
and friends will finally be able to bring them home to lay them to rest," he said.

Flying Officer Herbert, 24, from Glenelg, South Australia, and navigator Pilot Officer
Carver, 24, from Toowoomba, Queensland, were lost when their Canberra bomber went missing
on a mission on November 3, 1970.

When the last of Australia's combat troops left Vietnam at the end of 1971, six remained
behind, the bodies missing in action in the jungles of South Vietnam.

The discovery of the bodies of Lance Corporal Richard Parker and Private Peter Gillson
in 2007 by the organisation Operation Aussies Home sparked renewed official interest in
finding and repatriating Australia's Vietnam missing.

The remains of Lance Corporal John Gillespie were recovered in 2007, followed by the
discovery of Lance Corporal David Fisher last year.

That left only the remains of the two airmen, always regarded as the most difficult
to retrieve because there was little idea where their aircraft crashed.

But in April this year, a search conducted by the Army History Unit found wreckage
in thick jungle on a hillside in remote Quang Nam province, near the border with Laos.

Excavation of the site last month uncovered the remains of the two men.

Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science Greg Combet thanked all those
who worked tirelessly to bring them home.

"This is an excellent result. The cooperation of the Vietnamese authorities has been
exceptional and highly valued by the team and the government of Australia," he said.

The Hercules carrying their remains will land at RAAF Richmond at 10.30am (AEST) tomorrow.

Private family funerals will be held later in the week in Adelaide and Toowoomba.

AAP mb/cdh

KEYWORD: BOMBER (PIX AVAILABLE)

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Fed: Rudd govt backs away from health infrastructure fund

AAP General News (Australia)
04-21-2009
Fed: Rudd govt backs away from health infrastructure fund

By Melissa Jenkins

CANBERRA, April 21 AAP - The Rudd government is backing away from its promised $10
billion health infrastructure fund, amid confirmation from the central bank that Australia
is in recession.

The Health and Hospitals Fund, which has yet to finance a single project, was the big
ticket health announcement in last year's budget.

It was designed to provide investment in hospital infrastructure, medical equipment
and major research facilities.

Operational since January 1 this year, it was allocated $5 billion in the 2008-09 budget.

But on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for Health Minister Nicola Roxon would not guarantee
the remaining $5 billion, supposed to come out of next month's budget, would be added
to the fund.

"The budget projections have clearly changed since last May," she told AAP.

"We have already committed $5 billion to the fund from the 2007-08 surplus, and we
will be making future allocations as budget circumstances permit."

The spokeswoman said the government was considering proposals that could be supported
by the fund.

On Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens told a corporate function
in Adelaide that Australia was in recession.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd used the "R" word for the first time in the context of the
Australian economy on Monday.

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KEYWORD: BUDGET09 HEALTH

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NSW: Wife gets minimum four years' jail for killing husband

AAP General News (Australia)
12-16-2008
NSW: Wife gets minimum four years' jail for killing husband

By Margaret Scheikowski

SYDNEY, Dec 16 AAP - The children of a man stabbed to death by his drunken wife will
probably feel that her minimum four-year jail term is "inadequate", the sentencing judge
has said.

A NSW Supreme Court jury found Danielle Stewart, 32, not guilty of murder but guilty
of the manslaughter of Chaim Kimel, 55, at their Rose Bay home, in Sydney's east, in August
2006.

On Tuesday, Acting Justice Jane Mathews jailed Stewart for a minimum of four years
and maximum of six years and four months.

She noted Stewart had offered to plead guilty to manslaughter, had a borderline personality
disorder and was extremely intoxicated at the time of the stabbing.

During a late night argument at their unit, Stewart grabbed an antique knife, previously
kept in its sheath on a coffee table, and stabbed her husband twice in the abdomen.

The crime occurred in the hallway outside the bedroom of Mr Kimel's 16-year-old son,
who heard his father say: "Are you crazy, what are you doing, are you crazy?".

The boy rushed out to see his father holding his hands across his stomach and covered in blood.

The judge said the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would have been
"extremely traumatised" and undoubtedly the event would remain with him for the rest of
his life.

She referred to the "moving" victim impact statements read out by Mr Kimel's three
children, who were obviously devastated by his death and spoke of his exceptional qualities.

"I suspect you will regard the punishment I am about to impose as quite inadequate
...," she said.

"The sentences imposed by a court are not intended to reflect, and indeed cannot reflect,
the extent of the loss to a family and friends, no matter how great that loss."

Stewart's blood alcohol reading at the time of the stabbing was calculated to have been 0.240.

"I accept the offender has no memory whatsoever of the stabbing, nor of the events
immediately leading up to it," the judge said.

She said the jury's verdict meant that by reason of Stewart's intoxication - be it
from alcohol alone or in combination with anti-psychotic medication - she lacked the requisite
intention for the offence of murder.

Stewart's background included losing her mother to cancer at a young age, being sexually
abused as a child, attempting suicide on a number of occasions, battling anorexia, and
abusing alcohol and drugs.

The judge described Stewart's relationship with her husband as volatile.

But she said what Stewart perceived to be "dominating and controlling" behaviour by
her husband could well have been protective behaviour aimed at shielding her from her
own excesses.

The earliest date on which Stewart will be eligible for parole will be June 24, 2011.

Mr Kimel's children did not comment on the sentence as they left the court.

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KEYWORD: STEWART WRAP

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Swm: Coventry breaks women's 100m backstroke world record

AAP General News (Australia)
08-11-2008
Swm: Coventry breaks women's 100m backstroke world record

KIRSTY COVENTRY of Zimbabwe has set a new world record in the women's 100m backstroke
with a time of 58.77 seconds in the semi-finals at the Beijing Olympics.

The previous record of 58.97 set by NATALIE COUGHLIN at the US trials in Omaha, Nebraska
on July 1.

COUGHLIN had set five consecutive world records in the event before Coventry took the
record off her.

The final of the event will take place on Tuesday.

It was the fourth world record set at Beijing's Water Cube within the first three days
of competition.

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KEYWORD: OLY08 SWIM W100BA (BEIJING)

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Vic: Miners quits ticketing authority

AAP General News (Australia)
04-02-2008
Vic: Miners quits ticketing authority

The Victorian bureaucrat in charge of the state's problem-plagued new transport ticketing
system walked away from the job yesterday .. despite being due to give evidence today
to a parliamentary committee on the ticketing tender.

Transport Ticketing Authority's chief executive VIVIAN MINERS terminated his contract
yesterday .. without explanation.

He was to front the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee today about the tender
.. in which Mr MINERS faced conflict of interest issues for holding shares in a company
that was part of the two shortlisted consortia.

The TTA was set up in 2003 to implement a new one billion dollar smartcard system for
public transport .. but under Mr MINERS .. the system is now running at least three years
late.

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KEYWORD: SMARTCARD (MELBOURNE)

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NSW: Defence puts its case today in Davis murder

AAP General News (Australia)
08-31-2007
NSW: Defence puts its case today in Davis murder

The defence will sum up its case today in the murder of wealthy Sydney widow DOROTHY DAVIS.

The prosecution said yesterday .. the accused .. BRUCE BURRELL .. persuaded the woman
to walk to his house .. before killing her and disposing of her body at his remote rural
property.

The prosecution also said evidence that Mrs DAVIS lent BURRELL 100 thousand dollars
.. which she later wanted back .. provides a clear motive.

54-year-old BURRELL'S pleaded NOT guilty .. in the New South Wales Supreme Court ..

to murdering 74-year-old Mrs DAVIS .. in late May 1995.

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KEYWORD: BURRELL (SYDNEY)

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Headlines from 5AA Adelaide news bulletin at 5am (CST)

AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-2007
Headlines from 5AA Adelaide news bulletin at 5am (CST)

Virginia Tech campus shooting in US



Investigation continues into paint shop fire in Adelaide



Health Minister JOHN HILL welcomes decision to extend detention on HIV positive man



KEVIN RUDD still doing well in opinion polls despite ANZAC Day affair



Opposition says government should have acted sooner over AWB Iraq transactions to prevent
current law suit



East Timor election results to stand in spite of more voting discrepancies



SPORT - World Cup cricket progress .. Crow and Port Adelaide injuries .. Heritage golf result





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KEYWORD: 5AA NEWS 0500

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Vic: 16 houses confirmed destroyed in Victorian infernos

AAP General News (Australia)
12-15-2006
Vic: 16 houses confirmed destroyed in Victorian infernos

MELBOURNE, Dec 15 AAP - A man has died and 16 houses have been confirmed destroyed
in bushfires that ripped through several towns in Victoria's east.

A 48-year-old man who had been fighting a fire started by an arsonist died yesterday
near Heyfield when he fell from the back of a trailer and was run over by a truck travelling
behind.

The largest property loss was at Mt Ligar near Cowwarr Weir in Gippsland, where seven
houses were destroyed by a fire that was deliberately lit earlier in the day.

Four houses were razed at the A1 Mine Settlement and five at nearby Gaffney's Creek
in the state's north-east.

A Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) spokeswoman said last night's
devastation brought the total number of property losses since the fires began almost two
weeks ago to 21.

The man who died was battling a blaze that is believed to have been deliberately lit
earlier and police are hunting two men seen in the area at the time.

The bushfire was lit near Coopers Creek in Gippsland yesterday morning and spread rapidly
through bushland.

A strong south-westerly wind pushed the fire to the towns of Cowwarr Weir, Toongabbie
and Seaton, on the outskirts of Heyfield.

Country Fire Authority deputy chief officer Graham Fountain said it was a cowardly
act to light a bushfire that impacted on people's lives and property.

He said yesterday was the worst day since the bushfires began.

"As anticipated, yesterday's weather wasn't kind to us, the fire did come out of public
land and impact on private land and penetrated a number of properties and unfortunately
we suffered a number of losses during yesterday's extreme weather," he told the Nine Network
today.

Mr Fountain said firefighters would take advantage of today's milder conditions over
the next few days.

"We've now got a window of opportunity until early next week with milder weather conditions
across the fire areas," he said.

"We'll be trying to take advantage of that obviously to secure and strengthen containment
and control lines, however we still have got some active fire and we shouldn't be complacent.

"There's still communities in and around these fire areas which today still have threat
messages on them, and fire can now be seen by Woods Point, for example, which we've talked
about for many days now.

"But the weather conditions are a bit kinder to us. We had some very light rain over
the fires last night, but certainly not enough to extinguish them totally."

AAP ce/jt/nf

KEYWORD: BUSHFIRES VIC 2ND DAYLEAD

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NSW: Officers on campus by 11pm tomorrow under strict curfew

AAP General News (Australia)
08-06-2006
NSW: Officers on campus by 11pm tomorrow under strict curfew

SYDNEY, Aug 6 AAP - All police trainees and officers at the NSW police college in Goulburn
will be on campus by 11pm under a strict new curfew starting tomorrow.

The crackdown follows a series of alcohol-fuelled incidents in which a number of off-duty
officers engaged in indecent behaviour in NSW city late on Thursday night and in the early
hours of Friday morning.

One officer has been charged with offensive behaviour and others are being investigated
about an altercation.

Six of the seven officers, who had been attending courses at Goulburn, have been removed
from the college following a drinking binge.

A police spokesman today said only the one arrest had been made over the incident.

"The reputation of this organisation is something I have strived for with the overwhelming
majority of my colleagues to jealously protect," NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said
yesterday.

"I cannot afford this level of conduct or behaviour to continue."

Mr Moroney ordered the curfew, warning it was time for his officers to toe the line.

It has been 16 years since a a curfew existed at the college.

Under the new rules, officers and trainees will have to be back on the campus by 11pm
from Sunday to Thursday nights while on Friday and Saturday nights the curfew will extend
to midnight.

NSW Police Minister Carl Scully has said he supported the decision.

The latest revelations come just days after the NSW Ombudsman, Bruce Barbour, criticised
the NSW force for failing to take appropriate action over allegations that some officers
at the college were demanding sexual favours and threatening students with failure.

In response to Mr Barbour's report, Mr Moroney also announced a review of NSW Police
workplace and sexual harassment policies and procedures.

AAP tr/jt/bwl

KEYWORD: POLICE NSW

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Fed: PM flags tax cuts for families

AAP General News (Australia)
04-02-2006
Fed: PM flags tax cuts for families

By Saffron Howden and Robin Pash

CANBERRA, April 2 AAP - Tax reform appears to have been pushed aside in favour of tax
cuts for middle-income families in this year's budget.

Prime Minister John Howard has set the stage for a punter-friendly May budget and dismissed
calls for sweeping reform of the tax system from big business and factions of his own
backbench.

One day before a government-commissioned study into how the tax burden on Australians
compares internationally is given to Treasurer Peter Costello, Mr Howard proclaimed that
delivering tax cuts was a reform in itself.

"I'm a realist," he told the Ten Network.

"The average bloke, when you start talking tax reform, they tend to say: 'Well, what's
in it for me and my family?'

"Lower tax is tax reform."

Business groups are calling for broad changes to the system, including cutting the
top marginal tax rate, closing the gap between the top personal rate and the 30 per cent
corporate rate, and slashing business taxes.

Last year's across-the-board tax cuts - worth about $6-a-week to average income earners
- took effect last July and more will come into play from July 1 this year.

Another round of tax cuts could take effect in July next year, just months out from
the federal election.

Mr Howard won't reveal details of what the government will do with its expected $12
billion surplus when the budget is handed down on May 9.

But he said he would never change his support for a tax system that helped people on
lower- and middle-incomes.

"I am unashamedly a supporter of a tax system which is biased towards giving help to
low- and middle-income families," he said.

"To me, the most important thing a tax system can do is to provide incentive for hard
work, and the other important thing to do is to provide help for people who assume the
responsibility of bringing children into this world and raising them."

Tomorrow, business leaders Peter Hendy and Dick Warburton will hand to Mr Costello
the results of their month-long inquiry into Australia's tax system.

Parts of the report leaked to the media show the review found Australians were not
highly taxed compared to other developed nations, but that there was room for tax relief
in the budget.

Mr Howard has ruled out any changes to effective marginal tax rates that place a disproportionate
burden on the poorest Australians looking for jobs.

"The only way you can get rid of these effective high marginal tax rates is to have
a completely non-means-tested tax and welfare system," he said.

"I think there's a lot of nonsense talked about effective marginal tax rates."

But Labor says high effective marginal rates are removing work incentives.

"Australian taxpayers face some of the worst, incentive-killing effective marginal
tax rates in the developed world," opposition treasury spokesman Wayne Swan said in a
statement.

"Low-income families in Australia face the absurd position where they only pocket 34
cents in every extra dollar they earn by doing some overtime.

"John Howard is losing his touch if he can't see how tax grabs like these kill incentive
in the Australian economy."

Mr Costello has indicated in the past families will be the focus of his 11th budget,
and some coalition backbenchers have called for a large budget surplus to be given back
to taxpayers in the form of improved services, like childcare.

Others agree with business calls for sweeping tax reform, including flatter tax rates.

AAP shh/it/jlw

KEYWORD: TAX NIGHTLEAD

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Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali

Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali (b. Al Murtaza, Larkana, 5 Jan. 1928; d. Rawalpindi, 4 Apr. 1979) Pakistani; President and then Prime Minister 1971–7 The son of a Sindhi feudal landowner, Bhutto was educated at Bombay Cathedral High School and Berkeley and Oxford Universities. After Ayub Khan's 1958 coup, Bhutto became Minister of Commerce and Industries. He made his name however as an expert on foreign affairs and held this Cabinet office from 1963 to 1966. His outlook was fervently anti-Indian and pro-Chinese. Bhutto clashed with Ayub over the Tashkent Treaty which followed the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War. In November 1967 he founded the Pakistan People's Party which propounded an ideology of Islamic socialism. The PPP co-ordinated the campaign which led to Ayub Khan's replacement by the army chief Yahya Khan.

The PPP triumphed in the West Pakistan constituencies in Pakistan's first national elections in 1970. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Awami League similarly succeeded in East Pakistan. The inability to share power or to meet East Pakistani demands for autonomy resulted in the tragedy of the Bangladesh War. Pakistan's defeat by India ended Yahya's power. Bhutto in December 1971 replaced him, initially as civilian martial law administrator. He became Prime Minister following the introduction of the 1973 constitution.

Bhutto's populism encompassed nationalization, land reform, and administrative reform designed to curb the power of the dominant élites. In foreign affairs, he shifted Pakistan into the Islamic and Third World orbit from its more traditional pro-Western stance. His greatest triumphs were the holding of the 1974 Islamic Summit in Lahore and the return of the 93,000 Pakistani prisoners of war following the June 1972 Simla summit with Indira Gandhi.

By the March 1977 elections however, Bhutto's popularity appeared to be fading. The opposition Pakistan National Alliance claimed that the PPP's sweeping victory resulted from widespread rigging. Its civil disobedience campaign was linked with the demand for an Islamic social order. Despite Bhutto's concessions, he was forced to introduce martial law in a number of cities. On 5 July Zia-ul-Huq launched a coup.

Zia cancelled the elections he had promised for October. The Lahore High Court found Bhutto guilty of the charge of conspiracy to murder a political oppponent on 18 March 1978 and sentenced him to death, despite the weakness of the prosecution case. The Supreme Court by a majority of one upheld the sentence. Despite an international clamour for clemency, Bhutto was hastily executed on 4 April 1979 at Rawalpindi Central Jail.

Bhutto remains a controversial figure in Pakistani politics; admirers point to his concern for the downtrodden, his dynamism, and his foreign policy achievements. Detractors emphasize his arbitrariness and vanity and claim that he was directly responsible for the dismemberment of Pakistan.

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Luxxon Unveils Multimedia Processor for Wireless Devices That Enables Streaming Video, Audio, Graphics and Games.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2001

Luxxon's LUX2 Rich Media Processor Provides Device Manufacturers

with a Flexible, Ultra-low Power, and High

Performance Solution

Luxxon Corporation, a leading provider of adaptive streaming media technology, today unveiled its LUX2 multimedia processor, which enables device manufacturers to integrate compelling multimedia capabilities into wireless devices. The LUX2 includes a flexible multi-codec processor that provides device manufacturers with an adaptive and high-performance solution capable of encoding and decoding open-standard-based audio, video and graphic formats, such MPEG-4, MP3, and MIDI. Wireless handsets and PDAs equipped with the LUX2 will provide wireless users with the ability to send and receive the widest range of streaming media content.

As device manufacturers worldwide work to develop next-generation mobile devices equipped with full multimedia functionality, they face a growing number of challenges and obstacles including how to handle the multitude of audio, video, and graphic formats as well as changing client device and network capabilities. In addition, multimedia services, such as sending and receiving streaming video, require significantly more power, which quickly drains the batteries on today's mobile phones and PDAs.

"Luxxon's LUX2 rich feature set and low power allow 2.5G and 3G phones to simultaneously support the rich media that the new wireless networks enable, while keeping the phone small and light-weight like today's phones that we have gotten used to," said Dave Singhal, president and CEO of Luxxon. "Our goal is to provide the technology infrastructure to device manufacturers that powers and enables wireless multimedia services and applications regardless of whether it is streaming video, multimedia messaging, music videos or games."

The highly-adaptive multimedia processor technology of LUX2 enables device manufacturers to build wireless phones and PDAs that feature a multitude of rich media capabilities, including: a built-in camera that would allow a field worker to record MPEG-4 and send a video message to other workers; a larger full-color display on which an individual can watch such video messages and or view Internet music videos; game support using game acceleration for Java and non-Java games; MP3 capabilities for listening to music downloaded wirelessly; digital still picture capture in JPEG allowing a person to upload his or her picture from the phone to a wireless dating service; and high quality MIDI music support for better ring tones and Internet game support.

Device manufacturers are able to overcome the challenge of handling the plethora of formats in the market by integrating LUX2 into handsets and PDAs. LUX2 supports most of today's rich media formats (such as MPEG-4 enhanced with Luxxon's patent-pending error resilience technology, JPEG, MP3, MIDI, and GSM audio) as well as tomorrow's video, audio, music, and game formats. LUX2 also supports various proprietary formats. Unlike RISC or DSP software-based solutions, LUX2 provides this flexibility to device manufacturers with guaranteed high performance and longer battery life.

Availability

LUX2 is demonstrable today.

About Luxxon Corporation

Luxxon Corporation is a leading provider of adaptive streaming media technology. The company's products include transcoding gateways, and multimedia servers and processors that facilitate efficient streaming of any type of digital video or audio to and from diverse devices including PCs, Web appliances, PDAs and mobile phones. Luxxon's advanced solutions enable rich media to reach the widest audience over wireline and wireless networks. Luxxon, founded in 1998 and based in Mountain View, California, recently raised $21 million in a second round of financing from major global investors. Investors include: Allen & Company, the Angel's Forum, Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), the Ignite Group, Luxmi Ventures, MKS Ventures, Sony Corporation of America (NYSE: SNE), Viventures, Zodiac Ventures, and Caltos Capital. For more information, contact Luxxon at (650) 938-1919 or visit our Website at www.luxxon.com.

Copyright 2001, Luxxon Corporation. All rights reserved. Mediator is a trademark of Luxxon Corporation. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

RUPERT MURDOCH'S SON JAMES TO HEAD STAR TV IN HONG KONG: REPORT.

LONDON, June 1 Asia Pulse - Rupert Murdoch's youngest son James is to be appointed head of his Hong Kong-based Star TV network, it was reported here Wednesday.

The non-Murdoch Guardian newspaper said James Murdoch, 27, would be announced today as new chief of the satellite network, a key part of his father's News Corporation media empire.

As chief executive of Star, which operates in 53 countries, the younger Mr Murdoch was likely to have a seat on the board of the new satellite business which will be spun off from News Corp in the coming months, the paper said.

James Murdoch's promotion would also put him in line for a position on the board of News Corp.

The paper said Mr Murdoch, who lives near his father in New York, would move to Hong Kong soon after his wedding in June.

His promotion will be seen as reward for shaking up News Corp's internet business as head of News Digital Media, a review which won high praise from company executives.

It will also cap a dramatic rise in the family empire for the young Murdoch, who dropped out of Harvard University and only joined News Corp after starting his own music business, Rawkus Entertainment.

At Star, he will replace Gareth Chang, who stood down earlier this month after reportedly falling out with Rupert Murdoch.

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Concentrex Incorporated Invites You to Join Its Conference Call on The

Web Introducing Two New Online Products

PLEASANTON, Calif., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- You are invited to listen to a Concentrex Incorporated conference call that will be broadcast live over the Internet on Wednesday, Dec. 8 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time with top executives of Concentrex Incorporated.

What: Concentrex Incorporated Introduces Two New Online Products

When: 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, Wednesday, Dec. 8

Where: http://www.videonewswire.com/CONCENTREX/120899/

How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the address above

Contact: Deanna Whitestone, Investor Relations, 800-274-7280 x2418

Concentrex Incorporated, based in Portland, Oregon, is a leading provider of technology-powered solutions to deliver financial services including solutions for real-time host processing and accounting, branch automation, loan origination, new account opening, call center management, cross selling of products and electronic commerce. Concentrex, formerly known as CFI ProServices, Inc., serves over 5,000 financial institutions of all types and sizes in the United States. Concentrex has major offices in 11 additional cities across the country. Its World Wide Web address is www.concentrex.com.

If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived on the Web site www.concentrex.com or www.rcgonline.com.

(Minimum Requirements to listen to broadcast: The RealPlayer software, downloadable free from www.real.com/products/player/index.html, and at least a 14.4Kbps connection to the Internet. If you experience problems listening to the broadcast, send an email to webmaster@vdat.com.)