FED:What the Papers Say

AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-2011
FED:What the Papers Say

Main stories in today's papers:





THE AUSTRALIAN:



Nth Korea's Kim Jong-Un visits his father's body and all eyes turn to China to see
what they're going to do now; proportion of students studying science has almost halved
in past two decades; 100 years after Douglas Mawson's first Antarctic expedition was almost
defeated by thick ice, the very same problem stumps those trying to recreate it;



THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:



Police say Michael McGurk's would-be murderer got cold feet and failed three times;
former immigration minister Philip Ruddock says Malaysia plan is still possible; kelpies
have become instant celebrities since the release of the Australian movie Red Dog, but
vets are concerned in lead-up to Christmas that pups will be dumped once the demands of
their upkeep are realised;



THE AGE:



Indian traders in (Dandenong) in outer Melbourne have taken a local planning issue
to Indian government, as Premier Ted Baillieu about to visit India; Bairnsdale on brink
of having hospital with no doctors; VCE results are out and contain big surprise - the
No 2 school in state Huntingtower School at Mt Waverly;



THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW:



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THE WEST AUSTRALIAN:



WA families living on minimum wage are reportedly $12 a week worse off than a year
ago; mosquitoes look set to plague holidaymakers heading to WA's south-west for Christmas;



THE BRISBANE COURIER MAIL:



It's been revealed a convicted paedophile is in a top Qld health job that helps some
of the state's most vulnerable children; findings of damning report into January floods;



THE ADELAIDE ADVERTISER:



A record 92pc of students in Year 12 have earned their certificate of education; SA
Museum is fighting a losing battle against cannibalistic carpet beetles which are eating
the museum's insect collection;



THE HOBART MERCURY:



Tasmania police defend actions of an officer who shot a burglar at an IGA store in
Georgetown in the state's north; Tasmania's apricot harvest almost wiped out by half-hour
torrential rain storm;



THE CANBERRA TIMES:



Canberra's housing affordability crisis is causing increasing hardship for the city's
poor; its been revealed that the man accused of sneaking into the grounds of parliament
house and making a hoax bomb threat was already on bail for alleged burglary and theft
when the incident occurred;



THE NORTHERN TERRITORY NEWS:



Cyclone tipped to form off the Territory coast this week has a 50 per cent chance of
developing by Friday; fire fighters battle through the night to bring three massive blazes
under control that are now threatening Alice Springs.



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