Qld: Main stories in today's Brisbane Courier-Mail
BRISBANE, April 23 AAP - The main stories in today's Brisbane Courier-Mail:
Page 1 - Three bodies were found in the bathroom of a Brisbane home yesterday, thestate's third multiple killing in less than a week. Class size targets adopted by EducationMinister Anna Bligh are in breach of Labor policy. Prime Minister John Howard is expectedto make it clear within months that he will contest the next election, according to LiberalMPs.
Page 2 - If the Queensland Teachers Union is to be believed, 50,000 public school studentsare being asked to endure unacceptably overcrowded conditions. Embattled ATSIC deputyRay Robinson has been re-elected chairman of the national Aboriginal legal service, puttingabout $1 million of its funding in jeopardy.
Page 3 - The Queensland Law Society faces the irony of disgraced law firm Baker JohnsonLawyers itself claiming the society inadequately investigates solicitors. Queenslanderspaid almost $20 million to see general practitioners last year as bulk-billing droppedto historic lows. A large police presence and tough new speeding laws did not preventa repeat of last year's Easter road toll.
World - The US will apply unrelenting pressure on North Korea to scrap its nuclearweapons program at today's crucial Beijing summit. The US yesterday denied an Australianreport that it offered incentives to Nauru to prompt it to help organise the defectionof 20 members of North Korea's military and scientific elite including the father of itsnuclear program.
Finance - Bill Wavish, the director widely expected to be the next Woolworths CEO,quit yesterday in a shock decision which sparked speculation he could move to rival ColesMyer. Australian Magnesium Corporation shares were slammed again yesterday and the groupfaces a huge task to restore investor confidence following revelations it failed to negotiatea fixed-price contract for its $1.4 billion Stanwell magnesium project.
Sport - Nathan Blacklock has been dropped for disciplinary reasons from the Sydneysquad for Sunday's game against Queensland A at Sydney's Waratah Stadium. The Lions notonly knocked off Collingwood to be top of the AFL ladder but also out-gunned the Broncosin the all-important television ratings war. Lions veteran Alastair Lynch admits to feelingas if he had been playing with a hangover, but is confident his energy levels will returnfor Sunday's AFL clash with the Western Bull Dogs.
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KEYWORD: FRONTERS QLD
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