VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
12-16-2008
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers

MELBOURNE, Dec 16 AAP - The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers:

HERALD SUN

Page 1: AFL club Richmond faces a fan revolt if it refuses to pick up Ben Cousins in
Tuesday's pre-season draft.

Page 2: A Supreme Court appeal against a decision to give a cab licence to a man who
killed his wife will be launched by Victoria's director of public prosecutions.

Page 3: Speed radars that can catch cars travelling in either direction will be used
on country roads from Thursday in a Christmas blitz on leadfoot drivers.

World: George W Bush, making his last visit to Iraq as US president, has received a
reminder that many Iraqis see him not as a liberator but an occupier who pushed their
nation into chaos.

Finance: Telstra and the federal government are poised for an all-out battle over broadband
in 2009 after the telco was dumped from the $4.7 billion national broadband network tender
process.

Sport: AFL defenders have been put on notice - deliberately rushing a behind in next
year's NAB Cup will almost certainly cost their team a goal.

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