QLD: Main stories in today s Courier Mail

AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-2001
QLD: Main stories in today s Courier Mail

BRISBANE, April 17 AAP - The major stories in today's Courier-Mail are:

Page 1 - Australia's four major oil companies will be investigated by the Australian
Competition and Consumer Commission after pumping up petrol prices on the eve of Easter;
Ansett to use new planes and a new image in a bid to rebuild its battered reputation after
its devastating safety crisis.

Page 2 - Some of Queensland's most prominent barristers are bankrupt with large tax debts.

Page 3 - Complaints about illegal and offensive Internet sites surged by almost 50
per cent in the past six months. Siamese twins Monique and Tay-lah Armstrong home for
Easter.

World news: More than 50 per cent of Japan's voters favour former health minister
Junichiro Koizumi as Japan's next prime minister, newspaper poll shows; Israeli jets
kill at least three Syrian soldiers and wound six in a raid in Lebanon; At least 300 children
face an agonising death on over-crowded African slave ship.

Business: Business confidence plunges deeper into the doldrums, sparking concerns that
Australia's economic recovery will be delayed until at least the December quarter; Six-month
slide halves the value of shares in former blue ribbon investment Lend Lease, slashing
almost $5 million off its market capitalisation. BHP coal strike costs company more than
$100 million; Bank of Japan issues gloomy economic outlook.

Sport: Champion lock John Eales desperately wants to put seven weeks of frustration
behind him and give Queensland a last gasp bid to stay in the Super 12 finals race a boost
by taking the field against the Sharks at Ballymore on Sunday; Anthony Mundine knocks
New Zealander Timo Masua out cold in their super-middleweight title fight at a packed
Carrara stadium on the Gold Coast last night.

AAP rad/was t

KEYWORD: FRONTERS QLD

2001 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.