Fed: Canberra fronters for Friday, February 16

AAP General News (Australia)
02-16-2001
Fed: Canberra fronters for Friday, February 16

CANBERRA, Feb 16 AAP - The main stories in The Canberra Times today:

Page 1: Labor leader Kim Beazley lashes out with a personal attack on Pauline Hanson
as the One Nation leader again plays the race card. Ms Hanson looks more like a popstar
than a politician as she steps out of a chartered helicopter into the arms of adoring
fans at a Gold Coast shopping mall. The likelihood of GST rollback continuing through
the term of a Labor government is raised by Mr Beazley. Former chief minister Kate Carnell
finds herself in a fresh storm of controversy as doctors claim her appointment as chairwoman
of the federal government's GP training board is grossly inappropriate. Canberra scientists
map a human receptor whcih could lead to development of powerful new drugs to treat leukemia
and asthma.

Page 2: A federal Labor government will buy environmentally sensitive areas if the
owners want to be relieved of the responsibility of preserving the land.

Page 3: A man awarded nearly $3 million after being strapped as a schoolboy will have
to wait for most of his payment after a stay on the award is granted. Labor lashes out
at the Humphries government's plans to hand $10 million back to Canberra residents via
revenue cuts.

World: Israeli troops shoot dead a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip, reinforcing fears
Middle East violence is spinning out of control after the deadliest attack in Israel for
nearly four years. Overwhelmed doctors work on patients in the back of pick-up trucks
with intravenous lines strung from bamboo poles after El Salvador's second major earthquake
in month.

Finance: Rod Chadwick and his team hope they have come up with the right answer for
struggling industrial company Pacific Dunlop - unleashing the Ansell condom business.

Sport: Rugby union will soon replace league as the number one rugby code in Australia,
Australian Rugby Union boss John O'Neill says.

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