QLD: Brisbane Courier Mail fronters

AAP General News (Australia)
12-09-1998
QLD: Brisbane Courier Mail fronters

BRISBANE, Dec 9 AAP - Main stories in todays Brisbane Courier-Mail:

Page 1: Cricketers Shane Warne and Mark Waugh fined by the Australian Cricket Board for a
secret association with an Indian bookmaker. A woman convicted of the murder of Noosa
schoolgirl Sian Kingi, Valmae Fay Beck, 54, has been allowed to change her name in prison.

Four out of 10 businesses are not planning any work to fix the millennium bug, seriously
undermining Australias efforts to overcome the problem. Australias fighter pilots are
bailing out of the air force at alarming rates with only 53 left to fly 71 F/A-18 Hornet
fighters.

Page 2: The Federal Governments private health insurance rebate plan appeared doomed after
Health Minister Michael Wooldridge refused a compromise to help the package through the Senate
(Canberra).

Page 3: A Queensland woman was seriously ill in hospital last night after becoming only the
second known victim of the deadly lyssavirus. A boy, 14, enticed a five-year-old girl to play
catch-and-kiss before savagely raping her, a court was told yesterday (Ipswich).

World: United Nations weapons inspectors would begin a series of surprise inspections in
Iraq today in a final test of whether Baghdad was cooperating fully in the search for banned
weapons (UN).

Finance: National Mutual Holdings well-recognised insignia looks set to fade from the scene
in favour of the AXA logo as the French parent tightens its grip on the local insurer. The
worlds largest gold producer, South African-based Anglogold, has agreed to buy the gold
interests of Minorco for $893 million.

Sport: Tiger Woods wants US team captain Jack Nicklaus to nominate him for an historic
head-to-head clash with Greg Norman in the Presidents Cup which starts at Royal Melbourne on
Friday (Melbourne).

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KEYWORD: FRONTERS QLD

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