HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, Dec 10

AAP General News (Australia)
12-10-2004
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, Dec 10

ADELAIDE - Australian terror suspect David Hicks says he was forcibly injected with
drugs and had his head smashed into asphalt while blindfolded as part of his interrogation
at Guantanamo Bay. (Guantanamo Hicks Nightlead (With factbox))

CANBERRA - Prime Minister John Howard today warned the Australian economy faces a tough
year, as new figures showed Australia's trade gap with the rest of the world blew out
to $2.24 billion in October. (Economy Nightlead)

MELBOURNE - National Australia Bank paid almost $50 million to 12 executives, including
a $7.5 million golden handshake for former chief executive Frank Cicutto, in a year marred
by its rogue trading scandal. (NAB Nightlead)

CANBERRA - Defence Minister Robert Hill has been accused of trying to bury a report
which found that access to secret information was deliberately cut off to Australian soldiers
in East Timor for 24 hours. (Intelligence Nightlead)

SYDNEY - Melbourne may have the population but in the end Perth had the people. (Rugby
Aust Nightlead (with factbox). See also Rugby Aust Scene, Rugby Aust Vic, Rugby Aust Perth)

CANBERRA - More questions have been raised about the federal regional partnerships
program after it was revealed the government gave $660,000 to a now defunct rail project
in a marginal Liberal seat. (Regional Nightlead)

MELBOURNE - A bitter and costly family feud between the widow of famed Australian artist
Sir Sidney Nolan and his adopted daughter ground to a halt in the High Court today. (Nolan
Nightlead (Pix available))

AUKI - Governor-General Michael Jeffery today came face to face with the pointed spears,
arrows, knives and clubs of Solomon Island warriors. (Jeffery Scene)

MELBOURNE - The first Australian charged with selling a woman into sexual slavery wept
today as a Melbourne court was told his young daughter had pined for him since his arrest
last week. (Ho Nightlead)

SYDNEY - Former HIH director Rodney Adler will stand trial next year accused of rigging
the stockmarket. (Adler Nightlead )

SYDNEY - The Australian stock market gained a new kind of heavyweight name today, with
Elle and Delta taking their place alongside the old guard of Rupert and Kerry. (Artist
)

MELBOURNE - Sharemarket scammer David Tweed today failed in a High Court bid to overturn
a ruling that he deliberately misled small shareholders. (Tweed)



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