Qld: Courier Mail fronters
BRISBANE, April 28 AAP - Main stories in today's Brisbane Courier-Mail:
Page 1: Opposition Leader Simon Crean has demanded rival Kim Beazley pledge his allegianceas Labor's leadership woes simmered before today's shadow cabinet meeting in Brisbane.
Natasha Ryan opens the doors on her life in hiding. The Beattie government has wastedtens of thousands of dollars in taxpayers' money after misjudging the commercial prospectsof unviable inventions.
Page 2: The federal government has promised Australians a $2 billion budget surplusthis year despite the war in Iraq and the worst drought in a century.
Page 3: Police have smashed an international drug cartel after 12 months of listeningdevices, car traces, cyber intercepts and dawn raids across Sydney and Malaysia deliveredAustralia's biggest ecstasy haul. Australia will set up an offshore vaccine bank for foot-and-mouthdisease which last occurred here more than 130 years ago. Five Queenslanders are among16 housemates hoping for fame and fortune by being cut off from the outside world whiletheir every move is watched in loungerooms across Australia.
World: Secret documents found in Baghdad have provided the first evidence of a directlink between Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network and Saddam Hussein's regime. US soldiersfound barrels filled with chemicals in a vast weapons storage area in north-central Iraqyesterday. Explosions rocked a US army encampment filled with captured Iraqi army munitionson Saturday, unleashing fireballs into the skies.
Finance: Public confidence in financial planners is now affecting their income. TheQueensland government is to mount a major push to attract new venture capital to the state'smanufacturing sector.
Sport: Penrith chief executive Shane Richardson has called on Queensland's State ofOrigin selectors to include Rhys Wesser after the livewire fullback helped the Panthersto an upset victory over the NZ Warriors in Auckland yesterday.
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KEYWORD: FRONTERS QLD
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