VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-2006
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers

MELBOURNE, Aug 23 AAP - The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers:

THE HERALD SUN

Page 1: Victoria's highest paid bureaucrat is at the centre of a claim that a memory
stick holding secret tender information was left behind in Paris, and in the hands of
a bidder for a major contract.

Page 2: Thousands of women fighting breast cancer applaud the Howard government's move
to make a potentially life-saving drug affordable.

Page 3: A cheating husband considered shoving his wife from a high-rise Gold Coast
balcony before hiring a man to crush her under a car, a Melbourne court hears.

World: Three Mexican fishermen read the Bible and prayed as they drifted across the
Pacific ocean for nine months before hitting land.

Finance: Australian Pipeline Trust lodges a $452 million bid for Gasnet, trumping last
week's recommended offer from Colonial First State.

Sport: Australian umpire Darryl Hair stands by his actions, after his mid-match ball
tampering decision that lead to the first abandonment of a Test match.

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