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AAP General News (Australia)
12-30-2011
VIC:Main stories in Melbourne newspapers=2

The Age

Page 1: Electricity companies that supply Victoria's most bushfire-prone regions will
be forced to install remote-controlled safety devices that can cut off power on extreme
fire risk days, under a $500 million plan released by the Baillieu government.

Page 2: A snarling and hissing James Pattinson used bat and ball to take apart India.

Page 3: Victorian Environment Minister Ryan Smith has lost several key responsibilities
involving logging and hunting, capping off a tumultuous year for the Liberal MP. Australian
Federal Police are hunting at least one Australian man suspected of involvement in the
syndicate that organised the ship packed with asylum seekers that sank off Java earlier
this month.

World: The Obama administration is moving ahead with the sale of nearly $US11 billion
worth of arms and training for the Iraqi military, despite concerns Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki is consolidating his authority in a one-party Shi'ite-dominated state and abandoning
the US-backed power-sharing government.

Finance: With Australia's boardrooms a day away from closing their accounts for the
2011 year, listed retail companies including Myer, David Jones and Harvey Norman have
become sharemarket pariahs.

Sport: Two out of three man-of-the-match awards ain't bad as James Pattinson makes
a red-hot start to his Test career.

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