VIC: Main Stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-15-2003
VIC: Main Stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2

THE AGE

Page 1 - Carl Williams, allegedly behind Melbourne underworld murders, yesterday said
he was not violent and could not explain why so many of his associates had been killed
over the past six years; A second hunger striker in Nauru has been rushed to hospital
amid growing fears of fatalities among protesting asylum seekers; Girls have again outperformed
boys in the VCE tables, according to statistics released before the biggest day of the
year for Victoria's year 12 students.

Page 2 - Police believe the killers of Melbourne crime figure Graham "The Munster"

Kinniburgh had been planning the execution for at least a week before they struck.

Page 3 - The state government is considering a new criminal charge of dangerous driving
causing death; Historic Houses Trust cataloguing Patrick White's Sydney home and may buy
it; Executors of the estate of Patrick O'Brien discover unfinished Aubrey novel; Five
die on Victorian roads over weekend.

World - France and Germany have threatened to effectively split the European Union
into two; A 78-year-old retired schoolteacher has broken a lifetime of silence to announce
that she is the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of former Republican senator James Strom
Thurmond - once the nation's leading segregationist; At least 16 people were killed and
dozens wounded yesterday when a car bomb ripped through a police station in western Iraq.

Finance - Small companies have powered ahead over the past 12 months, marking a 42
per cent average increase since the start of 2003; Amcor and Gribbles have been granted
leave to appeal to the High Court over redundancy cases that could cost them more than
$60 million; Pacific Brands have turned to using bulldust in a bid to change the attitudes
of retailers and customers; Australia's iron ore producers will be swimming fast to stand
still in 2004 contract price negotiations with Japanese steel mills.

Sport - Rahul Dravid and Venkatesh Laxman have produced another memorable partnership
to bring their side back into this Test match; Steve Waugh's side has suffered at the
hands of highly accomplished batsmen who have hauled back the momentum for India.

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