Qld: Courier Mail fronters

AAP General News (Australia)
04-05-2000
Qld: Courier Mail fronters

Main stories in today's first edition of the Brisbane Courier-Mail.

Page 1 - North Queensland braces for its second cyclone in a week (Townsville). Prime
Minister John Howard moved swiftly yesterday to head off a revolt by dissident Liberals
over Northern Territory mandatory sentencing laws (Canberra). Century Zinc mine opens
in western Queensland.

Page 2 - Prime Minister John Howard called on Queensland federal Liberal MPs to sort
out factional fighting within the state organisation (Canberra).

Page 3 - A plan to introduce an extra year of schooling in Queensland has been shelved
despite support from teachers, principals and parents (local). Researchers say mobile
phone users with hands free kits could be risking three times as much radiation exposure.

Teenager missing after a bus ride home from a party (Cairns).

World - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi upset the first EU-Africa summit with an anti-western
tirade (Cairo). The father of castaway Elian Gonzalez has been granted permission to enter
the US from Cuba (New York).

Finance - Australian technology stocks plummeted by up to 20 per cent as investors
anticipated a further sell-off on Wall Street and waited for an interest rate hike from
the Reserve Bank of Australia. The resignation of Ian Burgess and four others from the
AMP board added $1.2 billion to the company's market value. Worries about the court ruling
in the Microsoft antitrust case slammed the Nasdaq composite index for the biggest decline
in its history.

Sport - Australian teenage golfer Aaron Baddeley has suggested he could win the US
Masters this week (Augusta).

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KEYWORD: FRONTERS QLD (BRISBANE)

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