Fed: Howard says no recession for = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-04-2000
Fed: Howard says no recession for = 2

Australia has recorded 13 successive quarters of economic growth above four per cent
-- the best performance for forty years.

Mr HOWARD says the government has already delivered $12 billion worth of personal tax
cuts with the introduction of the GST on July 1 and cuts to capital gains and company
tax rates.

AAP RTV kmh/hn

KEYWORD: HOWARD RECESSION (CANBERRA) REOPENS

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Qld: Blood bank runs low over easter

AAP General News (Australia)
04-20-2000
Qld: Blood bank runs low over easter

The Red Cross Blood Bank in Queensland says it fears patients could be placed at risk,
because blood stocks could become limited over the Easter break.

The five-day holiday, closely followed by the May Day holiday, has forced the blood
bank to open on Easter Saturday for the first time in Brisbane.

The Red Cross Blood Service says this is necessary because blood platelets have only
a five-day shelf life.

The problem is likely to be compounded by the Easter road toll, with many holiday-makers
taking to the highways over the break.







Special regional centres will be available to take blood from donors in Townsville,
Southport and Nambour on Saturday.

Metropolitan suburbs such as Alderley, Bulimba, Wolston Park and Logan Village will
be visited by a mobile blood collection van.

And permanent sites in Brisbane city, Strathpine and Mt Gravatt will also be open on Saturday.

AAP RTV dn/jhm/amt/rt

KEYWORD: EASTER BLOOD (BRISBANE)

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NSW: The main stories in today s papers = 4

AAP General News (Australia)
02-05-2000
NSW: The main stories in today s papers = 4

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:

Page 1 - ABC and Telstra in $67 million talks to put news on web; IT graduates heading
for ... unemployment; Aborigines investigate purchase of $8 million cattle station, where
the cattle were never counted.

Page 2 - Index.

Page 3 - Prime Minister John Howard to push for National Textiles deal; Another Australian
murdered in Thailand.

World - EU launches anti-Haider campaign following swearing in of far-Right …

Fed: HIC confirms plan to release Medicare data

AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-1999
Fed: HIC confirms plan to release Medicare data

The Federal Government has confirmed plans to make large amounts of Medicare data available
to insurance companies, law firms and state health bodies.

But the organisation that manages Medicare, the Health Insurance Commission, says private
patient information will remain confidential.

Commission spokesman BRYAN RICHARDS says it plans to allow access to information such
as the number of consultations by doctors in a set period, or data on how many specific
pathology tests have been ordered.

The Australian Doctors' Fund says the Commision's plan conradicts privacy safeguards
outlined in its annual report.

But Dr RICHARDS says the Commission simply wants to make more data publicly available,
and there are no plans to sell private patient information.

AAP RTV eg/jg/rp/jn

KEYWORD: MEDICARE (CANBERRA)

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VIC: 18 year old robbed by man with chisel, hammer and knife

AAP General News (Australia)
04-16-1999
VIC: 18 year old robbed by man with chisel, hammer and knife

MELBOURNE, April 16 AAP - An 18-year-old man received minor injuries after being frisked
and robbed by a bandit armed with a chisel, hammer and knife in a laneway in Melbourne's west
last night.

The young man was walking down the Footscray lane at about 8.35pm (AEST) when a man and a
woman approached him, a police spokeswoman said.

She said the man knocked the victim to the ground and showed him his weapons.

The victim handed over a small amount of cash and the man also stole his bag, clothes and a
few personal items before the younger man was able to escape.

Police are looking for a Caucasian man, about 30 years old, 183cm tall, with a fair
complexion, solid build and with light brown curly shoulder length hair.

He wore a light blue Adidas jacket, Nike runners and tracksuit pants.

His companion was also Caucasian, 24 to 28 years of age, 16cm tall and of thin build.

She had black straight shoulder length hair and wore a grey Nike jumper and Adidas runners.

Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

AAP hmg/trm

KEYWORD: CHISEL

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NSW: Man drowns at Central Coast beach

AAP General News (Australia)
01-01-1999
NSW: Man drowns at Central Coast beach

SYDNEY, Jan 1 AAP - A man drowned while swimming at North Avoca beach on the New South
Wales Central Coast today.

The middle-aged man from the Central Coast was at the beach with his wife and friends when
he went swimming alone, outside the flags.

…

FED:Kim Carr heads to US to save car industry

AAP General News (Australia)
12-16-2011
FED:Kim Carr heads to US to save car industry

The new manufacturing minister KIM CARR is heading to the US next month to help save
the car industry.

The Australian says Senator CARR will put a plan to the chief executives of General
Motors and Ford in Detroit as the government seeks to secure a new round of investment.

Earlier this week Senator CARR was demoted from the portfolio of industry, innovation,
science and research.

He says no-one had had the guts to put to his face suggestions his performance had
been the reason for his demotion, and when asked why he had been demoted, said that's
something that should be taken up with the Prime Minister.

AAP RTV lxs/wz

KEYWORD: MINISTRY CARR (SYDNEY)

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