ACT: Main stories in today's Canberra newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
04-11-2008
ACT: Main stories in today's Canberra newspapers

CANBERRA, April 11 AAP - The main stories in today's Canberra Times:

Page 1: Canberra moves closer to its first gas-fired electricity generator, with a
consortium lodging plans for a $2 billion world-class data centre for Hume. China ignores
Rudd's appeal to address human rights abuses in Tibet, warning foreign governments to
keep out of its internal affairs.

Page 2: Almost a third of the people who presented at a Canberra hospital department
in the last quarter of 2007 had to wait more than eight hours before getting a bed.

Page 3: Future of the proposed 4,500-home Tralee development in doubt after the Federal
Court clears the way for Canberra Airport's noise forecast to be endorsed. Most Australian
men are fat but only half of them know it, says new research.

World: Robert Mugabe is implementing a de facto military coup to keep himself in power
but will be ousted with the help of other African countries, says Opposition Leader Morgan
Tsvangirai (Harare). At least 54 Burmese migrants suffocated in a cold storage container
as they were being smuggled into Thailand, Thai police say (Bangkok).

Finance: Telstra says ACCC does not understand the need for higher broadband speeds
to be introduced as soon as possible. Australia's largest gaming companies, Tabcorp Holdings
and Tatts Group, likely to seek compensation after the Victorian govt announces end to
their duopoly over the state's 27,500 poker machines.

Sport: Raiders preparing as if Wests Tigers talisman Robbie Farah will play Sunday
despite him being in doubt with a bad back. Brumbies a step closer to signing Wallabies
hooker Stephen Moore after a meeting in Queensland.

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