VIC: Main Stories in today's Melbourne newspapers=2
THE AGE
Page 1: Fragments of shattered glass and a dying policeman's statement led an intensiveinvestigation to the murderers of police officers Gary Silk and Rodney Miller, a juryhears. John Elliott's remaining business interests take a king-sized battering with thecollapse of his big rice growing company.
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Page 3: The Victorian government concedes it acted inappropriately by allowing a Japanesefood company to transfer the cost of a plumber to another company. Drug companies in Australia,like their United States counterparts, were the target of tobacco industry attempts tolimit the marketing of quit-smoking aids, an expert says. Sweeping changes should be madeto the way complaints against the Victorian judiciary are handled, a review finds.
World: New biography of Vietnam's revolutionary hero Ho Chi Minh reveals his steamypast (Singapore). Indonesia's human rights court finds former East Timor governor AbilioSoares guilty of crimes against humanity (Jakarta). Floodwaters begin to spill into Prague'shistoric Old Town (Prague).
Finance: Softer world oil prices hit Santos, pushing its interim profit down 35 percent to $162.6 million, from $251.5 million for the first six months of 2001. Ansellshareholders to get a pleasant surprise when results are released. Australia's oil refiningand marketing industry lost a record $506 million in 2001, according to a report.
Sport: The likelihood of Wayne Carey becoming a Swan significantly increases with Sydneypresident Richard Colless making the former Kangaroos' skipper an offer estimated at closeto $500,000 a year. Channel Nine tried before the start of the 2002 season to convincethe AFL to introduce a moveable draw so that it could revisit the scheduling of gamesevery six weeks.
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