Vic: The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers =2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-13-2004
Vic: The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers =2

THE AGE

Page 1 - History and high hope will be on the same team as Athens receives the Olympic
baton from Sydney; Australian authorities would have issued tougher travel warnings on
Bali before the bombings there had the United States passed on key intelligence; Delta
Goodrem in hospital after party to launch Games campaign.

Page 2 - Convicted murderer Peter Dupas should receive a second life sentence for the
depraved killing of sex worker Margaret Maher, a court heard.

Page 3 - The Bracks government has bowed to union pressure and removed an ALP-linked
consultant it hired for $495,000 from a senior public service role; Feared flu epidemic
fails to show up in Victoria.

World - Indonesian prosecutors have again failed in their attempt to convict soldiers
accused of gross human rights abuses; A long-awaited report on the abuse of Iraqi detainees
at Abu Ghraib prison will recommend that more than two dozen soldiers be disciplined.

Business - Telstra shareholders will receive the first instalment of the promised three-year
$4.5 billion capital return through an off-market share buyback and a special 6c dividend;
Voracious consumers help put Coles Myer sales over the moon.

Sport - Rodney Eade may have missed out on the Adelaide coaching job but is firming
in favouritism for the Hawthorn post; Exciting Hawthorn mid-fielder Luke Hodge yesterday
announced he had re-signed with the club for the next three years.

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