NSW: Main stories in todays Sydney newspapers =2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-11-1998
NSW: Main stories in todays Sydney newspapers =2

THE AUSTRALIAN:

Page 1 - A deal with Independent Senator Brian Harradine has ensured the Federal
Governments $1.4 billion-a-year handout for private health insurance will go ahead;
Australian cricket captain Mark Taylor concedes the involvement of two players with a
bookmaker had probably prompted a subsequent alleged bribery approach from Pakistan captain
Salim Malik; A Jehovahs Witness woman dies after signing medical forms refusing blood
transfusions; Kerry Packer will become the biggest individual shareholder in John Fairfax
Holdings after Brierley Investments quits its stake.

Page 2 - The GST suffers a credibility blow with new figures showing the tax package will
reduce the nations income over time; Prime Minister John Howard hails the economys
credentials as a job creator as figures show unemployment jumped to eight per cent in
November; Media mogul Steve Vizard sells his television production company to the Poms;
Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett reveals he has been offered and refused a significant bribe.

Page 3 - The US Government backs away from a top presidential adviser who urged Canberra to
consider a plan to dispose of nuclear waste in Australia; A thrice-married Queensland womans
bizarre love life sees her jailed for six years; Civil Aviation Safety Authority chairman Dick
Smith vows to push on with reforms to the aviation system.

WORLD: Former Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet will stand in the dock of Britains most
secure court tonight to be called to account for atrocities carried out during his 17 year
rule; Euthanasia provocateur Jack Kervorkian committed to face first-degree murder charges
over the death of a man, which was broadcast on the US 60 Minutes program; Man walks from
London to Paris through the Channel Tunnel.

FINANCE: Brierley Investments decision to quit its stake in John Fairfax may finally
liberate the newspaper publisher from 10 years of shareholder instability; Depressed oil
prices lead to BHP Petroleum slashing a further $78 million from its cost base.

SPORT: Australian cricket captain Mark Taylor has been nurturing Mark Waugh in the hope the
bookie scandal will not crush the beleaguered batsman in the third Test against England; the
United States Presidents Cup team is understood to have become impatient with their captain
Jack Nicklaus.

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