QLD:Daniel's parents struggle with emotions

AAP General News (Australia)
08-14-2011
QLD:Daniel's parents struggle with emotions

BRISBANE, Aug 14 AAP - The parents of missing teenager Daniel Morecombe said the arrest
of a man for their son's murder has been extremely difficult to handle.

Bruce Morecombe told reporters that he and his wife Denise have been waiting for the
day someone was charged over the abduction of their 13-year-old son from a bus stop on
the Sunshine Coast in December, 2003.

When they were told on Saturday they had mixed emotions.

"It came as quiet a shock yesterday afternoon," Mr Morecombe told reporters outside
their home in Palmwoods on the Sunshine Coast.

"It's a very difficult place Denise and the family find ourselves in.

"It's a place you don't want to be in.

"It's an extremely difficult time and last night was not pleasant at all."

Police on Saturday charged the man with the teen's murder, nearly eight years after
Daniel, who was 13, went missing while waiting for a bus on the Sunshine Coast.

The man, who will remain in police custody until his court appearance in Brisbane Magistrates
Court on Monday, has been charged with murder, deprivation of liberty, child stealing,
indecent treatment of a child and interfering with a corpse.

Daniel disappeared from an unofficial bus stop under an overpass in the Woombye district
of the Sunshine Coast, on December 7, 2003.

He had intended to catch the 1.35pm bus to the Sunshine Plaza Shopping Centre to buy
Christmas presents for his family but he failed to return.

Mr Morecombe praised police and said the person who committed the crime picked the
wrong family to do it to.

Over the past eight years, the Morecombes have continually sought and gained publicity
to highlight the abduction of Daniel.

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Diary add for Monday, August 21, 2006

AAP General News (Australia)
08-21-2006
Diary add for Monday, August 21, 2006

MELBOURNE

0900 - Major Projects Minister John Lenders to inspect the proposed new site of the
Melbourne Wholesale Markets. Epping Market Site, Gateway Boulevard and Cooper Street,
Epping.

1430 - Federal Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews to present aged care certificates
to 34 indigenous graduates at a ceremony at the Koori Heritage Trust. 295 King St, Melbourne.

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FED:Deporting Brit 'against ALP principles'

AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-2011
FED:Deporting Brit 'against ALP principles'

SYDNEY, April 17 AAP - The deportation of a British-born man who's lived in Australia
for 41 years violates human rights, lawyer Stephen Kenny says.

"I invite the prime minister to say: 'These are not Labor Party principles; we need
to change this law'," Mr Kenny, who at one time represented Guantanamo Bay detainee David
Hicks, told the ABC on Sunday.

Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Bowen has defended the decision to deport
Clifford Tucker, 47, who is set to be deported after his visa was cancelled because of
a substantial criminal record.

Mr Tucker failed the character test set out in the Migration Act, Mr Bowen told the ABC.

But Mr Kenny said the decision to deport Mr Tucker is wrong as he's "not a threat to
society" and has not been involved in any serious violence for at least 10 years.

Mr Tucker, of Adelaide, is now awaiting deportation at the Villawood detention centre in Sydney.

He came to Australia aged six and has lived here ever since, but has never taken out
Australian citizenship.

He has notched up a substantial criminal record including a 12-year jail sentence for
attempted murder in the 1980s and a conviction for assault in 2009.

An immigration department spokesman earlier said the government took very seriously
its role in protecting the community from unacceptable risk or harm from criminal conduct
by non-citizens.

The decision to cancel Mr Tucker's visa was affirmed by the Administrative Appeals
Tribunal last July and in February the Federal Court dismissed his appeal, the spokesman
said.

"All non-citizens must meet the character requirements of the act and if someone does
not, they may have their visa cancelled and be removed form Australia," he said.

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WA:Heat prompts bushfire warning in WA

AAP General News (Australia)
12-31-2010
WA:Heat prompts bushfire warning in WA

Soaring temperatures in Perth over the next few days has prompted authorities to warn
residents living in or near bushland to be prepared for bushfires.

In Perth the temperature will reach 36 degrees on New Year's Day .. 40 degrees on Sunday
.. 38 on Monday and 37 on Tuesday.

JAMIE O'NEILL from the Kalamunda Volunteer Bushfire Brigade says people should be ready
to act if bushfires begin and in particular is urging hills residents not to be complacent
and remain alert.

He says bushfires can start suddenly .. often without warning and people need to reduce
risks and take actions to survive.

The Fire and Emergency Services Authority says areas in the South West Land Division
are likely to face total fire bans in the coming days as temperatures soar.

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WA:Teen robs taxi driver with toy gun

AAP General News (Australia)
08-20-2010
What the Papers Say

MAIN STORIES IN TODAY'S PAPERS:





THE AUSTRALIAN:

- Up to 19 Labor seats in question as Gillard and Abbott battle for supremacy

- Industry contradicts Julia Gillard over NBN connection costs



THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:

- Horrific medical mistake during child birth leaves a woman in great pain and distress

- Thousands of marriages conducted by celebrants could be invalid

- Environmental expert company sentenced over wrong advice



THE AGE:

- A swing to Labor in Victoria could make it the state that saves the party

- Israel and the Palestinians agree to hold new peace talks

- A genetic test developed in Melbourne could tell you whether you should be running or cycling



THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW:

- Very impressive result for ANZ

- Capital growth appears to be slowing world-wide



THE WEST AUSTRALIAN:

- Labor backlash in the west, with the ALP possibly reduced to three seats

- Barnett wants a compensation deal for Toodyay fire



THE BRISBANE COURIER MAIL:

- Google suggests teens may have to change their names to escape online past

- Queensland University Of Technology has had a brush with swine flu



THE ADELAIDE ADVERTISER:

- Coober Pedy school executive suspended over inappropriate conduct accusation

- Crown Princess Mary on Virgin Blue flight in Adelaide



THE HOBART MERCURY:

- Environment department warns people to stay away from mother and baby whale in Derwent River

- Tasmanian Senator is spearheading movement for legal havens for abandoned babies



THE CANBERRA TIMES:

- Canberra magistrate declares breath testing equipment worthless

- Eden mussel farm supplying Canberra wiped out by weather



THE NORTHERN TERRITORY NEWS:

- Man rushed to hospital after police shooting

- Contingent of 1.400 soldiers farewelled in Darwin before travelling to staging posts abroad



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NSW: Policeman charged over harassing texts

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-2010
NSW: Policeman charged over harassing texts

A Sydney policeman's been charged with sending harassing text messages to his former
partner during a domestic row.

The 38 year-old constable has been ordered to appear at Mount Druitt Local Court on
may 24 on a charge of using a carriage service to threaten .. offend or harass.

Police say the duty status of the constable from the North West Metropolitan Region
is now under review.

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Fed: Plane, tugs and rig underway to deal with WA spill

AAP General News (Australia)
08-29-2009
Fed: Plane, tugs and rig underway to deal with WA spill

A Boeing 747 is expected to fly in high capacity pump and spray equipment today from
Singapore to help fight a huge oil slick that's spreading off Western Australia's Kimberley
Coast.

The Greens claimed last night the oil and gas spill is much larger and closer to the
coast than previously reported.

Australian Greens senator RACHEL SIEWERT .. who's visited the oil rig from where the
spill has originated .. says a film of oil around the rig reaches from horizon to horizon.

She says it stretches at least 180 kilometres from east to west.

A drilling rig towed by two tugs has left Batam Island in Indonesia .. also heading
for the spill scene.

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Autobytel Schedules Date to Report 2009 First Quarter Financial Results and Host Conference Call

Wireless News
04-21-2009
Autobytel Schedules Date to Report 2009 First Quarter Financial Results and Host Conference Call
Type: News

Autobytel Inc., an automotive marketing services company, announced that the company expects to release its 2009 first quarter financial results after the market closes on Thursday, April 30.

Autobytel management will also host a conference call later that day at 5 p.m. EDT (2 p.m. PDT) to discuss its financial results and answer questions.
The conference call will be broadcast live at www.autobytel.com (click on "Investor Relations" and then click on "Conference Calls). Please visit the website at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the call to register and download any necessary software. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, the call will be archived in the investor relations section of Autobytel's website for one year.

Autobytel Inc. is an automotive marketing services company that assists automotive dealers and manufacturers sell cars. By connecting consumers to automotive dealers and manufacturers through internet lead referral programs and on-line advertising, the Company provides automotive dealers and manufacturers with opportunities to efficiently market their vehicles to potential customers.

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Qld: Paul Lucas admitted to hospital

AAP General News (Australia)
12-15-2008
Qld: Paul Lucas admitted to hospital

Queensland's deputy premier PAUL LUCAS has been taken to hospital after fainting while
moving furniture.

A spokesman for Mr LUCAS says he was admitted to the Mater Private Hospital for routine
tests after fainting this afternoon.

He says Mr LUCAS is fine and the Queensland Ambulance Service has advised his vital
signs are normal.

The 46-year-old deputy premier was on leave .. and will remain on leave until the end
of the month.

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Row: Scullers Halliday and Houston make semis

AAP General News (Australia)
08-10-2008
Row: Scullers Halliday and Houston make semis

Australia's world champion women lightweight scullers are through to the Olympic semi-finals.

AMBER HALLIDAY and MARGUERITE HOUSTON have finished two lengths behind the Dutch crew
who took bronze at the Athens Games four years ago and clocked the fastest time in the
heats today.

The Australians just held off a challenge by the American crew .. by 0.09 of a second.

The men's lightweight double sculls crew of SAM BELTZ and TOM GIBSON finished third
in their heat behind the Italians and Chinese .. and must go through a repechage to make
the semis.

AAP RTV jsm/jmt

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Fed: McGauran says he has no job other than MP

AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2008
Fed: McGauran says he has no job other than MP

CANBERRA, April 1 AAP - Former Howard government minister Peter McGauran has played
down reports he will quit politics within weeks for a job in the thoroughbred industry.

Mr McGauran, the former agriculture minister, is expected to leave parliament before
the May budget to take up a position with the Thoroughbred Breeders Association, representing
some of the nation's top racehorse studs.

Speculation has been fuelled by a speech the Nationals backbencher gave to parliament
last month in which he thanked his wife and parents and expressed gratitude to the voters
who had supported him.

But Mr McGauran today said he had no employment or position other than as the member
for Gippsland.

"I am working in the electorate as my constituents rightly expect," Mr McGauran said
through a spokeswoman.

"I have strong links with horse industries but no position."

Mr McGauran is one of several former ministers expected to retire this year.

Peter Costello, Alexander Downer and Mark Vaile have all been considering their futures
since last November's election loss.

Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson wants any retiring MPs to coordinate their departures
so that the ensuing by-elections - expected to cost taxpayers $500,000 each - can be held
on one "super Saturday".

Coalition strategists want the by-elections delayed until after the May budget in the
hope that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's electoral honeymoon will have begun to wane.

Dr Nelson today urged the MPs to pick up their performance or move on.

"Every one of us who was elected in November last year, our responsibility is to work
our tails off to our constituents," he told Fairfax Radio Network.

"People who don't want to do that, whichever side of politics they're on, they just
need to have a think about where they are going."

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FED: Labor's transition plan undermines policy: Howard

AAP General News (Australia)
08-30-2007
FED: Labor's transition plan undermines policy: Howard

JOHN HOWARD says Labor's decision to allow Australian Workplace Agreements to continue
operating for up to five years .. undermines their main argument against Work Choices.

Under Labor's new industrial relations policy .. AWAs won't disappear from the industrial
landscape completely until 2012.

The Prime Minister's told ABC radio if Labor really believed workers are being ripped
off .. they'd rip up the arrangements the day after they're elected into office.

Mr HOWARD says Work Choices are better for the economy than Labor's plan .. which he
says will threaten Australia's stunningly low level of unemployment.

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SA: Construction starts on purpose-built bioscience facility

AAP General News (Australia)
04-16-2007
SA: Construction starts on purpose-built bioscience facility

Construction of Australia's first purpose-built bioscience facility has started in
Adelaide's inner west.

The 12.9 million dollar incubator will provide laboratory and offices for up to 15
bioscience companies at Thebarton.

South Australia's Science Minister PAUL CAICA says it'll help young companies who may
not otherwise be able to afford such specialised facilities.

AAP RTV sl/jmt

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NSW: Ten taken to hospital after truck crash

AAP General News (Australia)
12-14-2006
NSW: Ten taken to hospital after truck crash

Ten people have been taken to Wollongong Hospital after a truck crashed into a number
of parked cars outside a fast food outlet at Fairy Meadow.

Police say the table-top truck .. carrying scaffolding .. was travelling down Mt Ousley
Road when it went through an intersection and crashed into the cars (EDS: about 1230 AEDT).

The force of the crash pushed one car into the fast food shop .. trapping the male driver.

He was freed an hour later by emergency services.

The 20-year-old truck driver wasn't injured.

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NSW: Lynette Waugh has further tests after brain surgery

AAP General News (Australia)
08-07-2006
NSW: Lynette Waugh has further tests after brain surgery

Former Australian cricket captain STEVE WAUGH says his wife is making progress .. but
will remain in hospital for more tests following brain surgery.

LYNETTE WAUGH had an emergency operation on Friday after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage.

In a statement STEVE WAUGH says the haemorrhage was very serious .. and his wife will
stay in Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital to find out what caused it.

WAUGH has thanked everyone for all the support he and his family have received.

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Fed: AFP urges tourists to heed Indon travel warning

AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2006
Fed: AFP urges tourists to heed Indon travel warning

The head of the Australian Federal Police's counter terrorism unit has urged Australians
to heed travel warnings issued by the foreign affairs department.

The new fears come amid heightened anti-Australian sentiment across Indonesia .. following
Canberra's decision to grant visas to 42 Papuan separatists.





The department advises it's received a stream of reports indicating terrorists are
in the advanced stages of planning attacks against Western interests in Indonesia.

They included a range of targets.

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NSW: Carr knew up to six weeks ago he would resign

AAP General News (Australia)
08-01-2005
NSW: Carr knew up to six weeks ago he would resign

Outgoing New South Wales Premier BOB CARR says he knew up to six weeks ago that he'd
resign as state leader.

Mr CARR announced his resignation from state politics last Wednesday after more than
10 years as premier.

He said he and his wife HELENA made the decision the previous weekend as they soaked
up some winter sunshine.

But today, Mr CARR has told Macquarie Radio he had a strong feeling he'd resign by
June the 23rd, when the last session of parliament finished.

On that day, he turned and waved at MPs before leaving, prompting Liberal MP CHRIS
HARTCHER to walk across the chamber and say: You won't be back.

Health Minister MORRIS IEMMA will be formally elected premier when the Labor Party
caucus meets tomorrow.

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ABP

ABP Abbreviation for Associated British Ports.

Analyst Speak.(Industry Trend or Event)

The music industry is apoplectic, we are told, at the prospect of mass digital distribution over the Web. This is the same industry, remember, that was recently investigated by the Government for cartel pricing, led by the Obig fiveO; and the same industry which has an estimated Osuccess rateO for commercial releases of around 2%.Music is just one example of how established business models are being pushed to breaking point by changes in the commercial landscape, and incumbents are being threatened by upstarts playing by different rules. Having been forced into confronting new media, record companies are now having to find ways of protecting intellectual property.

The industry, it seems, is still fixated with the idea that music is about a middle-aged personOs CD collection at home, containing all those classic back-catalogue discs that have now been around for 20 or 30 years; have been resold to the same punter several times in several formats; and that continue to be attractive because the marginal profit on each unit is so high.

It was the build-up of these collections that supposedly kick-started the first Odigital musicO revolution in the 1980s E vinyl to CD. But whereas technology is still important, itOs not the only factor. Being digital does make a difference because the copy is now indistinguishable from the original. Illegal copying is therefore much more of a potential threat, and has been the focus of major activity to date, via schemes such as the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI).

But todayOs piracy could be tomorrowOs business model Egiving away music does work, as CDnow has proved by increasing sales through free downloads.

Instead of fighting a rearguard action to protect established and artificially inflated revenue streams, however, what more visionary companies could try to do is think about how music usage has evolved over the years, and investigate ways of meeting the demand not for a static set of physical discs, but for an ephemeral portable resource.

Increasingly, the economics of music is shifting towards greater time-sensitivity, particularly in the pop and youth markets, value is at a maximum now, and begins to depreciate immediately and quickly to zero. Call it obsolescence or fashion, either way it can be seen as a threat to established practises, or the opportunity to create new ones.

So-called Ostreaming musicO over broadband, always-on connections is obviously only applicable for certain fixed-location scenarios E in the home, office, club E and even then itOll be a while before the quality and cost of the network will be up to it.

With the proliferation of channels and devices now available for consuming music E from DTV to Internet radio E record companies have the chance to look beyond music as simply OsinglesO and OalbumsO and consider how it might be a more profitable utility.

Trying to protect the exploitative pricing models which have traditionally underpinned this massively redundant business is little more than stalling. Looking at the potential for music as a low-cost, user-centred service, which is smart enough to fit into and work effectively in myriad lifestyle situations, priced according to both the economics of digital entertainment, and the premium consumers are willing to pay, is one way forward.

If the Obig fiveO donOt start doing it, someone else will.