AAP General News (Australia)
04-05-2006
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers
MELBOURNE, April 5 AAP - The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers:
THE AGE
Page 1: A new boatload of Papuan asylum seekers is understood to have landed in Australian
waters.
Page 2: Scope for tax cuts in next month's budget will be limited as the global commodities
boom eases along with company profits, says the federal treasurer Peter Costello.
Page 3: Doubts hang over the legality of thousands of parking fines issued across Melbourne
after an Ombudsman's probe criticised the city council's $15 million a year parking operation.
World: Iraq's interior minister is refusing to deploy thousands of police recruits
trained by the United States and Britain and is hiring its own men and putting them on
the streets, according to western security advisers.
Finance: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has accused Telstra of
charging too much in one off connection fees for rival internet providers using its lines.
Sport: Michael Kasprowicz and Brett Lee hang on to win the Test against South Africa,
completing a 3-0 series white wash.
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