HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30

AAP General News (Australia)
04-10-2011
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30

SYDNEY - NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson is a "boofhead" who needs to stop playing
politics and focus on the real issues, Premier Barry O'Farrell says. (OFarrell)

OFarrell Wrap to come



SYDNEY - Police have arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with the suspicious death
of a woman on the NSW Central Coast. (Woman Update)



SYDNEY - Streets in the Sydney CBD and major arterial roads are continuing to experience
gridlocked traffic conditions following the closure of the Harbour Bridge. (Traffic)



SYDNEY - There's been another incident in which a laser light was directed at a passenger
aircraft in Sydney, and police have called on the public to help find who's responsible.

(Laser)



SYDNEY - A teenager has been arrested after a pizza delivery man was robbed at knife
and gunpoint in northern NSW. (Pizza)



SYDNEY - Two alleged members of the Hells Angels bike club have been charged with drug
offences in Sydney's inner west, police say. (Bikies)



MELBOURNE - The man who threw his four-year-old daughter off Melbourne's West Gate
Bridge will learn on Monday whether he will spend the rest of his life in prison. (Freeman)



MELBOURNE - Unions are outraged over claims of bullying in what they call a Dickensian
call-centre at WorkSafe Victoria, the group responsible for protecting employees from
workplace harassment. (Worksafe)



MELBOURNE - Two men with intellectual disabilities are taking on the federal government
in court, hoping to win a pay rise for 20,000 disabled workers across Australia. (Disabled
to come)



MELBOURNE - One in three cars on Victoria's roads is unsafe, according to research
by the state's peak mechanics' group. (Unsafe)



MELBOURNE - Three men have been stabbed in a brawl between two groups of men in Melbourne's
southeast. (Party)



MELBOURNE - A teenager has died after the car he was travelling in rolled over on a
Victorian country road. (Toll Vic)



BRISBANE - Liberal National Party leader Campbell Newman is wrapping up a charm offensive
to woo voters in northern Queensland, promising to shift some government departments from
Brisbane. (LNP)



BRISBANE - An iconic Port Douglas resort, favoured by celebrities and built by disgraced
tycoon Christopher Skase, has sold for $35 million and is set for a $170 million makeover.

(Port Douglas with pix to come)



BRISBANE - A 39-year-old man has been shot in the leg during a home invasion on Queensland's
Sunshine Coast. (Gun)



BRISBANE - An accused date rapist who allegedly assaulted three female international
students in Brisbane has been charged with a further rape offence. (Assaults)



BRISBANE - Queensland police are on the hunt for arsonists after three cars were set
on fire in Brisbane's north. (Fires)



ADELAIDE - South Australian police have arrested a man wanted in connection with a
body found in a dry creek bed earlier in the week. (Body)



ADELAIDE - Two teams of adventurers prepare for a 3000km journey from Adelaide to Darwin
aboard a hand-powered rail car known as a kalamazoo. (Kalamazoo to come)

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