ACT: Main Stories in today s Canberra newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
04-27-2001
ACT: Main Stories in today s Canberra newspapers

CANBERRA, April 27 AAP - The main stories in today's Canberra Times:

Page 1 - Howard calls on consumer watchdog to throw the book at oil companies if it
is proved they colluded in lifting petrol prices on Anzac Day; Dead man's brother says
four years' jail nowhere near enough for man found guilty of manslaughter.

Page 2 - Australia's jails turning into mental asylums and not helping young heroin
users deal with their psychiatric problems.

Page 3 - Qantas jumbo jet drops two engine panels during take-off at Sydney airport;
Outraged civil libertarians criticise plan for compulsory DNA sampling of entire Australian
population as election stunt.

World - New Japanese Prime Minister makes immediate mark by appointing five women to
his cabinet (Tokyo); Wahid's plan for last-ditch peace talks with political rivals falls
through as lawmakers appear determine to censure him (Jakarta).

Finance - IMF slashes 2001 forecast for economic growth in Australia to 1.9 per cent,
down from 3.25 per cent it predicted only a month ago; Rising fees help drive ANZ profits
up but bank insists it is listening to consumer anger.

Sport - Cosmos officials to lodge letters of complaint following allegations Japanese
player subjected to racist taunts in Adelaide; Brumbies player Justin Harrison pleads
guilty to disorderly behaviour in Dunedin after being arrested while intoxicated.

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