FRONTERS QLD

AAP General News (Australia)
12-27-1999
FRONTERS QLD
P.1 Swimmers on some of Queensland's most popular beaches are bathing in human and other
waste up to five times the safe limit, government test results show. Good conditions at
start of Sydney-Hobart yacht race. Hundreds of boatpeople likely to be released from detention
centres to create room for illegal immigrants, including Iraqis.

P.2 Queensland's Court of Appeal president Justice Margaret McMurdo criticises mandatory
sentencing for murder and piracy as a superficial solution which results in injustices.

P.3 Multitudes hit the shopping malls at the start of post-Christmas sales.

World News: Oil spill from sunken tanker threatens wildlife and beaches on coast of France.

Russians meet fierce resistance in Grozny. Astronauts release newly-repaired Hubble telescope
from the space shuttle Discovery.

Business: Australian sharemarket may not join other world bourses in reaching record
levels by the end of the year. Gocorp, the Gold Coast company at the centre of the so-called
Net Bet affair, plans capital raising of $60 million.

Sport: Michael Slater the first player to make 1,000 Test runs in the 1999 calendar
year. Mark Waugh in welcome return to form on the first Day of the second Test at the
MCG. Magna Data sets the pace in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race.

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