HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Aug 12
SYDNEY - The Reserve Bank of Australia said today that the most "plausible scenario"
is that the case for further interest rate rises will remain intact. (RBA rates, see alsoConfidence)
SYDNEY - The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said today the major world economies werelikely to grow at a slower pace than earlier thought. (RBA US)
SYDNEY - The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) retained a bias to raise interest rates,economists said today after the central bank brought out its Statement on Monetary Policy.
(RBA economists)
To come: RBA NIGHTLEAD, ECONOMY NIGHTLEAD
CANBERRA - Labor trade and tourism spokesman Stephen Martin is to resign from federalparliament on Friday. (Martin Lead)
CANBERRA - Opposition Leader Simon Crean today dismissed as pure fantasy a suggestionhe had struck a secret deal with ACTU boss Greg Combet. (ALP Crean)
To come: MARTIN NIGHTLEAD, MARTIN PROFILE, MARTIN ANALYSIS
ADELAIDE - Two boys in the Woomera detention centre who failed in a recent bid to gainasylum from Britain today sought a court order to be reunited with their father in Sydney.
(DETENTION COURT to come)
ADELAIDE - Concerns with the organisation of the Australian Democrats would be raisedas a matter of urgency at the next party room meeting, Rebel Australian Democrat SenatorAndrew Murray said today. (Democrats Meeting Lead)
PERTH - The man at the centre of the Democrats' unrest is used to fighting for justice.
(DEMOCRATS MURRAY PROFILE to come)
To come: DEMOCRATS NIGHTLEAD
CAIRNS - Prime Minister John Howard today warned any financial assistance to cane farmersmight be conditional on an overhaul of the industry. (Sugar Howard)
CANBERRA - Battling sugar cane growers will today demand up to $150 million from thefederal government for the industry to survive. (Sugar)
CANBERRA - The federal government had to immediately announce a package to help thenation's sugar growers, Labor said today. (Sugar ALP)
SUGAR NIGHTLEAD to come
CAIRNS - Prime Minister John Howard today angrily rejected suggestions the Australiangovernment was ahead of the United States in its rhetoric on Iraq. (Terror Aust Howard)
DARWIN - Prime Minister John Howard must admit the error of his government's Ramboapproach to Iraq, Opposition Leader Simon Crean said today. (Iraq Aust Crean Lead)
DARWIN - The opposition expected the Australian government to accept Iraqi blackmailto preserve the wheat trade, Defence Minister Robert Hill said today. (Iraq Aust Hill)
To come: IRAQ AUST NIGHTLEAD
SYDNEY - Fingerprinting of Norfolk Island residents is under way in a bid to solvethe community's first murder in 150 years. (Norfolk Lead, NIGHTLEAD to come)
SYDNEY - HIH Insurance's former chief executive Ray Williams today denied he knowinglykept crucial information from the industry regulator the year before the company collapsed.
(HIH Lead, NIGHTLEAD to come)
SYDNEY - Telstra today rejected claims it had mistakenly published hundreds of silentnumbers in the White Pages. (Telstra Silent Lead, NIGHTLEAD to come)
SYDNEY - A woman was killed by her estranged husband and their two children becausethey believed she was a devil worshipper, a Sydney court was told today. (Glossodia, NIGHTLEADto come)
LOS ANGELES - Australian and New Zealand fire fighters were deployed today to a massivewildfire burning out of control on the United States' west coast. (US Firefighters)
AYR - Karrie Webb turned a relatively lean year into another great one today with atypical final round charge to win her third Women's British Open title. (Golf Women Nightlead,with FACTBOX to come)
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