Vic: Main stories in the Melbourne newspapers = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-15-2010
Vic: Main stories in the Melbourne newspapers = 2

THE AGE

Page 1: The credibility of former police chief Christine Nixon has been battered by
admissions she had no contact with emergency services for almost three critical hours
on Black Saturday, and that she misled the Bushfires Royal Commission; The Victorian government
ignored advice from its own expert consultant that the emergency paging system that failed
on Black Saturday should have remained capable of operating at its maximum capacity.

Page 2: Two crew members of the Chinese coal ship that smashed into the Great Barrier
Reef have been arrested and charged by the Australian Federal Police.

Page 3: A leading al-Qaeda recruiter, described as the No 1 terrorist threat to the
US, was engaged by a Sydney youth group to address hundreds of young people - a decision
that has caused deep divisions at one of Australia's largest mosques.

World: The toll from an earthquake that rocked north-western China's remote Qinghai
province yesterday has risen to about 400 dead and 10,000 injured.

Finance: There was little contrition from Eddy Groves yesterday as he fronted the Federal
Court in Sydney to answer questions about the collapse of ABC Learning.

Sport: A bewildered North Melbourne chairman James Brayshaw says his club's supporters
should be embarrassed by AFL membership figures, which reveal the Kangaroos are more than
1,000 members down on the same stage last year and are running last of Victorian-based
clubs on the membership table.

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