VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-11-2009
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2

THE AGE

Page 1: Victoria's hospitals are calling for major health reform, as a new report details
worn infrastructure, crowded and under-funded emergency departments and ancient IT systems.

The judicial career of Francis Maxwell Douglas, QC, must be one of the briefest in history.

On Monday, the prominent Sydney silk was sworn in as a judge on the Fijian Court of Appeal.

By Friday, Mr Douglas had been sacked by the same man who had sworn him in only four days
earlier, President Josefa Iloilo.

Page 3: Christians flocking to Easter services and events demonstrated yesterday that
the church is perhaps the most multicultural institution in Australia and that multiculturalism
is thriving. Good Friday messages from church leaders encouraging sacrifice and charity
during hard economic times were partly overshadowed yesterday by Cardinal George Pell's
support for the Pope's controversial claim that condoms worsen the spread of HIV and AIDS.

Victorian Governor David de Kretser has called for consideration of a carbon tax, to increase
the price of goods produced using energy from high-pollution power stations.

World: Fiji is in political turmoil after President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced he
had repealed the constitution, appointed himself head of state and set a 2014 election
deadline.

Finance: Just days separate BrisConnections unit holders from the biggest vote of their
lives, but any chance those investors had of making a decision in full knowledge of the
facts has been lost amid weeks of legal wrangling. The squeeze on the financial services
sector has hit another lender, with Tasmanian Perpetual Trustees revising down its full-year
net profit by about 25 per cent.

Sport: As Collingwood waits for the outcome of Heath Shaw's report, Brisbane Lions
coach Michael Voss said the laws of the game were clear when making contact with umpires.

Richard Hadley plays his 50th game today, eight seasons to the round since his first.

That game, for the Brisbane Lions, was in round three 2001 against Richmond at the MCG.

Today against Essendon at the same ground, it will be in Carlton's navy blue. Carlton
coach Brett Ratten made a point of reminding his players this week about last year's two
losses to arch-rival Essendon.

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