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AAP General News (Australia)
12-04-2006
NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers=2

THE AUSTRALIAN

Page 1: Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard are almost twice as popular with voters to lead
the Labor party than Kim Beazley and Jenny Macklin, according to a new poll; Veteran Labor
factional powerbroker Robert Ray is expected to dump Kim Beazley in today's ballot; The
government is considering stripping disgraced wheat exporter AWB of its six-decade monopoly;
Significant cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 could decimate Australia's agricultural
and metals processing industries; Australian captain Ricky Ponting was angry at his dismissal
in the Adelaide Ashes Test, despite a record-breaking 142.

Page 2: The government is set on destroying the essence of who Aboriginal people are
with its assimilationist policies, says indigenous leader Pat Dodson.

Page 3: Australian brothers Mohammed and Abdullah Ayub have been freed by Yemeni anti-terror
authorities after seven weeks of detention, but the file of a third Australian, Marek
Samulski, has been passed on to prosecutors.

World: Dumped US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted policy failure in Iraq
in a memo two days before his resignation.

Finance: James Packer and partner Lawrence Ho plan to raise $US1.1 billion ($A1.4 billion)
in a NASDAQ listing to help bankroll $A6 billion of casino developments in Macau.

Sport: Not even a 33rd Test century for captain Ricky Ponting could stop the advantage
shifting to England in Adelaide's Ashes Test.

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