News Diary for Friday April 16, 2010

AAP General News (Australia)
04-16-2010
News Diary for Friday April 16, 2010
Good Evening News Editors and Chiefs of Staff

Here is AAP's preliminary newslist for Friday (not for publication).

This is a guide only and stories, local times and locations are subject to change. In
some cases times and locations may not be available. Story coverage is subject to staffing.

ADELAIDE
- No items listed.

BRISBANE
0930 - Deputy Premier to open UQ's Pharmacy Australia Centre of Excellence (PACE).

- Launch of funding campaign for world's first Hendra virus vaccine.

- Court of Appeal to release judgment on whether the drink-driver blamed for the death
of Cathy Freeman's brother can appeal her seven-year sentence.

- The master and two officers of a bulk carrier that allegedly sailed into restricted
waters of the Great Barrier Reef sentenced in Townsville Magistrates Court.

1030 - Qld Treasurer Andrew Fraser will be in Ipswich to officially launch the 1000 Local
Jobs campaign for Ipswich and the Western Corridor.

CANBERRA
- No items listed.

MELBOURNE
1000 - Magistrates court committal mention for David Puglia, Matthew Grotheer and Jayden
Bishop, charged with fatal shooting of a Geelong father of two outside his home
1200 - Melbourne Press Club lunch with Victorian Chief Justice Marilyn Warren on where
the courts are heading.

SYDNEY
0930 - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at Canterbury Hospital.

0930 - Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson to make a tourism funding announcement to Captain
Cook Cruises.

1000 - Des Campbell trial continues - two of his girlfriends to give evidence. Supreme
Court, King Street 2
1000 - Sentencing of woman who sold her daughter to a truck driver - NJJ and JJR - Downing
Centre District Court, G2
1330 - NSW Teachers Federation to vote on the national moratorium on the 2010 NAPLAN test.

PERTH
- No items listed.

FINANCE
ECONOMIC NEWS
SYDNEY - Australian Office of Financial Management to auction $750 million of the November
2012 bonds.

EQUITIES NEWS
SYDNEY - Coal & Allied Industries Ltd annual general meeting.

SYDNEY - ECSI Ltd general meeting.

SYDNEY - Entellect Solutions Ltd extraordinary general meeting.

PERTH - Resources Rising Stars Investor Luncheon Series featuring Mincor Resources and
Batavia Mining.

SPORT

AFL
PERTH - AFL: West Coast v Essendon, Subiaco Oval 2040 AEST
MELBOURNE - Preview North Melbourne v Sydney.

MELBOURNE - Adelaide v Collingwood.

MELBOURNE - Collingwood v Hawthorn.

MELBOURNE - Brisbane v West Coast.

MELBOURNE - Melbourne coach Dean Bailey available at 11.30am at Junction Oval.

RUGBY LEAGUE
SYDNEY - NRL: Wests Tigers v Canterbury SFS 1935 AEST
SYDNEY - NRL: Gold Coast v St George Illawarra Skilled Park 1935 AEST
SYDNEY - Preview Newcastle v North Queensland.

SYDNEY - Sydney Roosters v Canberra.

MELBOURNE - Senior Storm player available after Melbourne training.

RUGBY UNION
HAMILTON - Super 14: Chiefs v Stormers, Waikato Stadium 1735 AEST
CANBERRA - Super 14: Brumbies v Hurricanes, Canberra Stadium - 1940
BRISBANE - Preview Queensland v Bulls.

PERTH - Preview Western Force v Blues.

SOCCER
BRISBANE - Follow-up on future of Gold Coast in the A-League with speculation owner Clive
Palmer will make a decision on his future involvement with the fledgling club Friday.

MOTORSPORT
HAMILTON - V8 event starts.

ATHLETICS
PERTH - Australian Athletics Championships/Commonwealth Games Selection Trials begin.

TENNIS
CHARLESTON, South Carolina - Australian Samantha Stosur to play Vera Dushevina in the
third round of the Family Circle Cup.

SURFING
NEW PLYMOUTH - Quarterfinals of the ASP world tour event.

CRICKET
SYDNEY - Latest IPL coverage.

RACING
SYDNEY - Latest on Saturday's Group One Doncaster Mile at Randwick.

SYDNEY - Preview of Saturday's Group One AJC Australian Oaks and The Galaxy at Randwick.

MELBOURNE - Throw forward to Saturday's Caulfield meeting.

BRISBANE - Looking at the Doomben fixture on Saturday.



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