QLD: Main stories in today's Brisbane newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-2007
QLD: Main stories in today's Brisbane newspapers

BRISBANE, Aug 8 AAP - The main stories in today's Brisbane Courier Mail:

Page 1: Swimmer Leisel Jones has her sights on gold at the Beijing Olympics. Sick Queenslanders
are being urged to stay home and consider wearing face masks against this year's strain
of virulent flu.

Page 2: Prime Minister John Howard told parliament he had authorised the Australian
Electoral Commission to conduct local referenda on proposed mergers of Queensland councils.

Page 3: Noosa Mayor Bob Abbot welcomed the Howard government intervention on council mergers.

World: Six US miners were trapped as a tunnel collapsed on a Utah mountainside and
face up to three days underground as rescuers dig through rubble to reach them.

Finance: US and Australian central banks both met yesterday to decide on interest rates
for the first time since global markets were hit by recent uncertainty.

Sport: Bulldogs player Jason Akermanis has defended making allegations about another
AFL player taking performance enhancing drugs.

AAP ec/cjh

KEYWORD: MONITOR FRONTERS QLD

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