Fed: Canberra fronters for Thursday, August 16

AAP General News (Australia)
08-16-2001
Fed: Canberra fronters for Thursday, August 16

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

Page 1: Senior Commonwealth education bureaucrat Mike Gallagher hits out at Australian
National University head Professor Ian Chubb, saying he was playing to the gallery when
talking of a crisis in universities. A member of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction is shot
dead in what Palestinians call an Israeli assassination, fuelling tensions already stoked
by an Israeli military build-up near Bethlehem. An 18-year-old is in hospital with scissor
stab wounds and one of his friends flees Canberra after a gang stand-off erupts in the
Dickson College grounds. ACTTAB chief executive Roger Smeed will not seek a renewal of
his contract. Wallaby winger Andrew Walker and his wife Leona reckon they have a fair
idea of how the media-hounded Christopher Skase felt.

Page 2: Aboriginal leader Brian Butler's grandmother was taken from her community to
a compound in Alice Springs where she was exploited by white police and pastoralists for
sex, then forced to smother her newborn baby. Aboriginal statesman Pat Dodson urges action
to achieve a treaty.

Page 3: A decision by the Australian Catholic University to grant women a year's paid
maternity leave will not become a standard workplace entitlement, business warns.

World: Defying protests in Asia, conservative Japanese politicians flock to a shrine
for war dead to mark the 56th anniversary of the country's surrender in World War II.

NATO leaders are expected to approve a plan to deploy a British-led force to oversee the
disarmament of ethnic Albanian guerrillas after persuading them to hand in their arms.

India marks Independence Day with a blast at old foe Pakistan, blaming President Pervez
Musharraf for the failure of a high-stakes summit in July.

Finance: Austar United Communications posts a sharper than expected half-year loss,
sending the pay TV and internet operator's shares to near-record lows with analysts predicting
it may have to sell its New Zealand operations.

Sport: The much anticipated appearance of maverick Wallaby winger Andrew Walker at
Canberra Vikings training is the first small step in forcing his way back into the Australian
team.

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