Vic: The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-09-2004
Vic: The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2

THE AGE

Page 1 - Better discipline and hankering for tradition, smart uniforms and moral values
driving parents out of public education and into private schools, new research shows;
Distraught mother pleads for daughter's safe return after kidnappers snatch baby in apparent
calculated, random, violent abduction; Prime Minister John Howard rejects statement signed
by former senior diplomats and military chiefs accusing his government of dishonesty over
Iraq war and mishandling of foreign policy.

Page 2 - Monday Story - profile on Melbourne woman Sarah Rose.

Page 3 - Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon softens support for embattled Governor Richard
Butler before their urgent meeting over state's vice-regal crisis; Up to 10,000 people
rally on steps of Parliament House to back tougher sentences for sex offenders and other
criminals; Melbourne scientists discover common condition in heart failure can be reversed
by procedure that regulates salt and water in body.

World - Attempt by security forces to seize rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr appears to have failed.

Business - Interest rates likely to drive economic news this week, as some of Australia's
most widely held listed companies reveal profit results; Domestic companies spend less
than 0.33 per cent of revenue on research and development - well behind world's best practice
and significantly lower than Australian public sector.

Sport - Jana Pittman's Olympic hopes alive again after encouraging second opinion from
British surgeon.

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