Fed: Main stories in Canberra Times, Friday, December 21

AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-2001
Fed: Main stories in Canberra Times, Friday, December 21

CANBERRA, Dec 21 AAP - The main stories in today's Canberra Times newspaper:

Page One: Labor calls for Governor-General to clarify explanation of events surrounding
Toowoomba school abuse scandal; Two more Australians linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda
network; People flock to Bonython house to see Christmas lights; Strict clamp-down on
alcohol to be enforced at Summernats; Chief Justice Jeffrey Miles spares lives of two
dogs.

Page Two: Two asylum seekers mutilate themselves in another night of unrest at Woomera
detention centre.

Page Three: Canberra Hospital nurses to have secret ballot to decide if they will accept
Labor government's enterprise bargaining offer.

World: Argentina declares 30-day state of emergency; Hamas, which declared it would
call halt to campaign of suicide bombings against Israel, leading Palestinian Islamic
movement opposed to Jewish state.

Finance: AMP Ltd's aim of entering lucrative Chinese market suffers setback with financial
services group dumping plans to invest in CPIC Life Insurance; Survey shows Australian
businesses expected a short-term jolt to profit but believed they would bounce back from
any September 11 impact within a year.

Sport: Stuart MacGill takes timely five-wicket bag as South Africa's fragility against
leg-spin bowling further exposed in tour match against NSW; Sydney Swans great Gerard
Healy says Tony Lockett should be given the No.44 for his jersey to make him twice as
happy.

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