WA: Main stories in today's West Australian

AAP General News (Australia)
12-18-2003
WA: Main stories in today's West Australian

PERTH, Dec 18 AAP - Main stories in today's West Australian:

Page 1 - Hunger strikers not our problem, says Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone;
Two life sentences for killer of English girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman; Baseball
coach gets $150,000 for ankle injury.

Page 3 - Asia on alert for new SARS outbreaks; Nicole Kidman attends Aussie premiere
of her new film; A former Vietnamese refugee fined $5,000 for poaching abalone.

Page 5 - Emergency patients waiting longer for treatment in WA hospitals; Health department
warned that lax accounting leaves it open for financial abuse; Taxpayers will pay more
than $600 million under a federal government plan to ease the burden on doctors of indemnity
premiums.

World - Indonesia's leading Islamic body bans terrorism (Jakarta); Black lovechild
of dead US senator breaks her silence on her racist father (Washington); Madonna puts
her support behind US presidential candidate Wesley Clark (Washington).

Business - Nickel posts a new 14-year high; Woodside takes a 35 per cent stake in ENI's
share of Mauritania offshore oil riches; AMP shares could slide by as much as 25 per cent.

Sport - WA boxer Danny Green warned to control his aggression in the ring; West Coast
Eagles training on Rottnest Island.

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