ACT: Main Stories in today's Canberra newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
12-19-2001
ACT: Main Stories in today's Canberra newspapers

CANBERRA, Dec 19 AAP - The main stories in today's Canberra Times:



Page 1 - Explosions and fires rock Woomera detention centre as hundreds of detainees
riot over allocation of visas; convicted murderer cleared to be transferred from NT jail
to NSW jail at ACT's expense so he can be closer to his family.



Page 2 - ACT govt should look at subsidising premiums or damages payouts instead of
making victims pay for increasing insurance fees, says ACT Law Society.



Page 3 - Cabinet approves tough new security laws to allow people suspected of knowing
something about a terrorist act to be detained for 48 hours without being charged; Carnell
appointed to strife-torn NRMA board after shock resignation of Tim Shaw last Friday.



World - US and Afghan forces scour Afghanistan's eastern highlands for Osama bin Laden
although Bush says it is anybody's guess where he is (Tora Bora); Aust al-Qaeda fighter
David Hicks being held on US warship with captured American Taliban recruit John Walker.



Finance - HIH directors stopped paying claims on some policies in the months before
it collapsed, royal commission hears; Aust's economic outlook remained positive although
export growth would ease, chief commodities forecaster says.



Sport - Aust's crushing victory over its nearest rival in Test cricket is a poke in
the eye for critics of Steve Waugh's ageing team; Waugh praises his Test-winning greats,
Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne, for bowling the team to victory.



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