Highlights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Aug 24

AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-2006
Highlights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Aug 24

CANBERRA - Prime Minister John Howard has announced an extra 2,600 personnel for the
army, saying Australia will face challenging situations in the next two decades. (Army.

Eds: Changes keyword from Defence)

Army Nightlead, Backgrounder, Analysis, Factbox to come. Pics available. With graphic.



CANBERRA - A new US technique for creating stem cells without directly destroying human
embryos will still lead to the unwanted cloned embryos being thrown away, an Australian
anti-cloning group says. (Stemcell Discard. Also see Stemcell Researchers, Stemcell Experts,
Stemcell Barnett, Stemcell Bracks, Stemcell Beazley, Stemcell Monash and other sidebars.

Pics available)

Stemcell N/L to come.



BOWEN, Qld - Blood tests have begun on patients of a Queensland dentist who tested
positive to HIV, the state government says. (Dentist Testing)

SYDNEY - Patients treated by an HIV positive Queensland dentist are "extraordinarily
unlikely" to have contracted the disease, a leading epidemiologist says. (Dentist Risk)

Dentist N/L to come. Pics available.



SYDNEY - The responsibility of identifying a soldier's remains should not rest with
emotional colleagues, the inquiry into Private Jake Kovco's death and botched repatriation
has been told. (Kovco)

Kovco N/L to come.



CANBERRA - House prices in Australia's capital cities have recorded more solid growth,
but the industry says the hikes show a continuing nationwide shortage of homes. (Housing)

SYDNEY - Australia is on the verge of a housing crisis as growing demand and higher
interest rates push housing affordability further out of reach for many Australians. (Housing
Economists to come)

SYDNEY - Wide regional disparities in housing price growth underscore the RBA's dilemma
in coping with inflationary pressures. (HOUSING Analysis to come, with graphic)

SYDNEY - A senior AWB executive who coordinated the embattled wheat exporter's response
to the Iraq kickbacks inquiry has quit the company. (AWB Gillingham)

AWB N/L to come.



MELBOURNE - Two former Department of Human Services officers have been charged with
the manslaughter of an elderly intellectually disabled man who died after drinking linament
at a football ground. (Conduit to come)



SYDNEY - Obesity study cuts weight of an entire young population. (Waist to come)



SYDNEY - AMP Ltd today posted a seven per cent rise in first half net profit as it
cashed in on buoyant market conditions and continued changes to the superannuation industry.

(AMP)

AMP N/L, AMP Planning to come. With pics, graphic.



BRISBANE - Returning spearhead Glenn McGrath has talked up the possibility of playing
at 40, raising the prospect of a fourth and final Ashes tour in 2009. (Cricket Aust Nightlead
to come)





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