HighLights of the AAP National Wire = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-2011
HighLights of the AAP National Wire = 2

ALICE SPRINGS, NT - The severe beating of a woman in Alice Springs is a poignant but
all too common symbol of a town in crisis. (Alcohol Alice Newsfeature)

BRISBANE - Young adventurer Nikki Bart is skiing to the North Pole this month in an
attempt to become the youngest Australian to climb the world's highest mountains and reach
the North and South Poles. (Bart to come)

SYDNEY - Experts say all pregnant women should be tested for vitamin D deficiency after
a new study found low levels are strongly linked to gestational diabetes. (VitaminD)

SYDNEY - There are calls for tighter regulation of alternative medicines, including
Chinese herbal remedies, after a 75-year-old Australian man fell seriously ill. (Alternative)

MELBOURNE - Battalion Commander Alan Macfarlane remembers standing proud after his
troops withstood one of the most vicious German bombardments in the defence of Tobruk.

(Tobruk)

CANBERRA - Public health experts will push for a disease control centre to deal with
the threat of new infectious diseases nationally and regionally when they meet in Canberra.

(Disease to come).

PERTH - Tropical cyclone watch continues along north Western Australia. (Cyclone to come)

CANBERRA - A teenager is in a critical condition following a high-speed police chase
through Canberra's suburban streets. (Pursuit)

SYDNEY - Western forces should get out of Libya, Australian journalist and documentary
maker, John Pilger, says. (Pilger Libya to come)

SYDNEY - It's been revealed that hundreds of childcare centres in NSW are struggling
to meet the federal government's tough new industry standards and some could be forced
to close within three years. (Childcare)

SYDNEY - Detectives are investigating the death of a four-year-old boy in western NSW.

(Boy) More on merit.

SYDNEY - More than a dozen teenagers, some as young as 13, have been detained by police
after they were found drinking and engaging in anti-social behaviour in the Sydney CBD.

(Teenagers)

SYDNEY - Police have taken the unusual step of appealing for mobile phone footage of
a youth football match which was marred by violence in Sydney's southwest. (Football)

SYDNEY - Two men have been charged after a petrol station was robbed at gunpoint in
the NSW Hunter Valley. (Pistol)

MELBOURNE - Random drug testing on building sites will be considered by the Victorian
government in response to warnings that links had grown between criminal gangs and the
industry. (Drugs Vic)

MELBOURNE - Women's Cancer Foundation to lobby federal government for more funding
for Ovarian cancer at its annual fun run/walk. (Ovarian to come)

MELBOURNE - From the end of 2013, ALDI supermarkets will no longer sell laundry detergents
containing phosphates (Phosphates to come)

BRISBANE - A man who went missing while motocross riding south of Brisbane has been
found dead. (Forest)

ADELAIDE - A body found inside a burning car in the Adelaide Hills early Sunday was
a victim of suicide, police said. (Burnt Update)

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