HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30

AAP General News (Australia)
12-09-2010
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30

SYDNEY - Flood-stricken Wagga Wagga and the nearby town of Tarcutta have been swamped
by heavy rainfall overnight, forced more people to flee their homes. (Floods NSW, Wrap
to come, see also Floods NSW Wagga Update, Floods NSW Keneally, Floods NSW Ambulance;
Floods NSW Roads - Update to come)

CANBERRA - The swollen Queanbeyan River has peaked in the NSW city neighbouring Canberra
but residents forced to evacuate won't be allowed home until late Thursday evening at
the earliest. (Floods NSW Qbyn Wrap,pix and video)

MELBOURNE - A 51-year-old man swept away by floodwaters on Melbourne's northern fringes
clung to a tree for five hours before he was rescued. (Floods Vic Update)

BRISBANE - Residents in the central Queensland city of Rockhampton will begin sandbagging
homes in preparation for a 7.8-metre flood peak expected early next week. (Floods Qld)

ADELAIDE - The mop up continues in the wake of the record-breaking storms that lashed
South Australia. (FLOODS SA to come)

CANBERRA - Federal government frontbencher Bill Shorten has rejected suggestions Labor
powerbroker Mark Arbib is a spy for the US. (WikiLeaks Arbib Update, Wrap to come, see
also WikiLeaks Arbib Brown, WikiLeaks Wilkie)

LONDON - Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange consider the accusations of rape
and molestation made against him by Swedish prosecutors to be "politically motivated".

(Assange - international agencies)

CANBERRA - The national jobless rate fell to 5.2 per cent in November from 5.4 per
cent in October as more than 50,000 people joined the workforce, well above the number
economists were expecting. (Jobs Update, see also Jobs NSW, Jobs Qld, Jobs SA, Jobs Swan,
Jobs Evans, Jobs Hockey, Economy Wrap to come)

CANBERRA - Smokers on low incomes will have even more reason to quit after the federal
government announced it will subsidise the cost of nicotine patches. (PBS, see also PBS
Roxon Update, Smoking, Soliris)

PERTH - Prominent Perth lawyer Lloyd Rayney has pleaded not guilty to the wilful murder
of his wife in the Perth Magistrates Court. (Rayney Update)

CANBERRA - The national school curriculum won't be the same in each state and territory,
Australia's peak public education union says. (Curriculum)

FINANCE

SYDNEY - Strong full time jobs growth in November could tip the nation into full employment
early next year and force the central bank to raise interest rates before wages blow out.

(JOBS ECONOMISTS to come)

SPORT

ADELAIDE - Australian fast bowler Ryan Harris has been passed fit to play the third
Test against England. (Cricket Aust, Wrap to come)

ENTERTAINMENT

SYDNEY - Oprah Winfrey is spending her second day in Australia at Uluru, after changing
her original plans on the advice of a friend. (Oprah, see also Doll)

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