Qld: Main stories in today's Brisbane newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-2007
Qld: Main stories in today's Brisbane newspapers

BRISBANE, Aug 24 AAP - The main stories in today's Brisbane Courier Mail:

Page 1: Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd announced a multi-billion dollar health funding
plan that could lead to a takeover of every state-controlled public hospital. 18 Indonesian
sailors bound for the APEC summit in Sydney, scrambled ashore at Rainbow Beach in southeast
Queensland early yesterday as their ship was beached by stormy weather.

Page 2: A court has been told that Robert Farquharson, the father accused of driving
his three young sons to their death in a dam outside Melbourne in 2005, refused to call
an ambulance after flagging down a passing car.

Page 3: A Queensland industrial relations commissioner, Robin Bechly,
took an $11,000 taxpayer-funded trip to the LawAsia conference in Hong Kong only three
weeks before retiring with a lucrative redundancy.

World: Spanish state-run TV has dropped live coverage of bullfighting, on grounds the
deadly duel between matador and beast is too violent for young viewers.

Finance: Under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's new disclosure
regime, unlisted and unrated debenture issuers will have to meet eight benchmarks, to
avoid the losses caused by the collapses of Westpoint, Fincorp, ACR and Bridgecorp. AMP
chief executive Andrew Mohl yesterday announced earnings of $78 million and that he would
retire at the end of the year.

Sport: Former Cowboys skipper Travis Norton said it was time for the Johnathan Thurston-led
North Queensland side to strike fear into its rivals the Knights, playing in in Newcastle
tonight.

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