AAP Backgrounders and Analyses for the weekend of April 5/6

AAP General News (Australia)
04-04-2008
AAP Backgrounders and Analyses for the weekend of April 5/6
AAP BACKGROUNDERS AND ANALYSES FOR THE WEEKEND OF APRIL 5/6

For further information please contact Newseds Joanne Williamson on (02) 93228611 or Nalita
Ferraz on (02) 93228610.

CANBERRA - Brendan Nelson has six guitars, wants Led Zeppelin to tour Australia and feels
some sympathy for the banks. (Newscope Federal, AAP News Analysis, by Maria Hawthorne,
805 words, on file)

ADELAIDE - A former barrister and Supreme Court judge, Ted Mullighan is as articulate
as they come. (Abuse, AAP Newsfeature, By Steve Larkin, 900 words. On file)

SYDNEY - It wasn't the finding his family had been hoping for. (Kovco, AAP Newsfeature,
By Amy Coopes, 1,340 words. On file, pix available)

MELBOURNE - Morality and the modern, male sporting hero are generally mutually incompatible.

(Carey, AAP Newsfeature, By Mike Hedge, 680 words, on file)

CANBERRA - It seemed hard to believe it was happening in Australia - workers locked out
in the middle of the night and strike-breakers protected by balaclava-clad security guards
and vicious dogs. (Workplace, AAP Newsfeature, By Denis Peters, 1,000 words. On file)

MELBOURNE - There is an old saying, `hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'. When first
uttered in the 17th century it referred to women in love, but perhaps in the 21st century,
it should be broadened to include women in industrial relations. (Unions Women, AAP Newsfeature,
By Kellee Nolan. Approx 1000 words. To come tomorrow)

MELBOURNE - Victoria's highest paid public servant quit his $540,000-a-year job this week
but denied he was to blame for the state's troubled public transport ticketing system
running three years behind schedule and blowing out to a cost of $1 billion. (Newscope
Vic By Kate Lahey. Approx 800 words. To be come Friday)

CANBERRA - Of all the oddball theories about how HMAS Sydney came to be lost with all
645 hands, the most outlandish is not that she was really sunk by a Japanese submarine
almost two months before the attack on Pearl Harbour. (Sydney Backgrounder, By Max Blenkin,
about 1,100 words. On file.)

DILI - Jose Sarmento lines up on a basketball court with 3,000 other displaced people
to collect his rice and cooking oil for the month. (Timor Refugees, AAP Newsfeature, By
Stephanie March, 960 words. On file, pix available)

PERTH - Plonking a tea bag in a cup of hot water simply won't do anymore in this day of
increasingly discerning tea drinkers, according to Stephen Twining. (LIFE: Tea, By Rebecca
Le May, 1,090 words. On file)

SYDNEY - Concert pianist Aaron McMillan had just escaped a death sentence when he first
met author Susan Wyndham at a dinner at NSW parliament house. Or so he thought. (BOOKS:
Wyndham, By Judy Skatssoon, 1,000 words. On file)

ENTERTAINMENT:
SYDNEY - With her quiet, friendly demeanour and angelic voice, it's hard to believe that
Scottish singer Sandi Thom was once described as "the antichrist of music". (Thom Music
Feature by Alyssa Braithwaite, about 830 words, on file)

MELBOURNE - Who is Australia's funniest school kid? Traditionally, the notoriety of the
student who kept all the other school kids entertained in the dullest of lessons was confined
to the classroom. (Comedy Kids, AAP Newsfeature, By Michelle Draper. 870 words. On file)

SPORT:
EDS NOTE - For further information on sports reads please contact Mike Osborne on (02) 93228750

GOLF
SYDNEY - For Australian golf fans, April is the cruellest month. (Golf Masters Aust Sportsfeature
by Senior Sports Writer John Coomber, 340 words, on file with extended factbox)

NETBALL
SYDNEY - The time has come for the hype and hoopla surrounding the inaugural Trans-Tasman
netball tournament to give way to the sport's "brave new world" starting this weekend.

(Netball Tasman Preview Sportsfeature by Adrian Warren, 727 words, on file with 990 word
factbox)

TRIATHLON
MELBOURNE - The Hawaiian Ironman triathlon is notorious for what it demands from its champions.

(Triathlon Wellington Sportsfeature by Roger Vaughan, 765 words, on file)

RACING
SYDNEY - There comes a time for every master to hand over to a new apprentice but for
trainer Bart Cummings, that time is not now. (Gallops Cummings Sportsfeature by Mandy
Cottell, 563 words, on file)

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