VIC: Main Stories in today s Melbourne newspapers = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-2000
VIC: Main Stories in today s Melbourne newspapers = 2

THE AGE

Page 1 - Channel Seven yesterday signalled it was still in the race for AFL television
rights; The first total fire ban of the summer has been declared throughout Victoria today.

Page 2 - The federal government's two new cabinet ministers both claimed responsibility
for welfare reform yesterday.

Page 3 - Melbourne was left without emergency call access yesterday after a power blackout.

World - Fifteen prisoners die as troops try to break a mass hunger strike in Turkish
prisons; Bush faces a slowing economy as he moves to take office.

Finance - John Ellice-Flint comes to Santos with an impressive record in the US; Lend
Lease triggered its biggest share price fall in 13 years yesterday; Alan Greenspan proved
to be the grinch that spoilt Christmas for world financial markets yesterday.

Sport - Test leg-spinner Stuart MacGill must tire of living in Shane Warne's shadow;
West Coast Chairman Michael Smith has incensed the Kangaroos by calling on the AFL to
spend $15 million from its TV rights deal to move the team to Sydney.

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