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

AAP General News (Australia)
12-18-2009
Vic: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2

THE AGE:

Page 1: Police are concerned about the emergence of a new party drug called gamma butyrolactone(GBL)
that has appeared on Melbourne's streets; Robert Donald William Farquharson, jailed for
life over the deaths of his three young sons, has been granted a retrial.

Page 3: A Warrnambool bikie gang chief who police fear will intimidate prosecution
witnesses has been granted bail due to the state's DNA analysis fiasco; Governor-General
Quentin Bryce has laughed off the idea that she and Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard
should try to storm the bastion of the nation's exclusive mens clubs; the global financial
crisis has sparked a huge increase in the number of Australians who plan to work till
they drop.

World: Senior UN officials say it was proposed to enlist the White House in a bid to
replace Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai.

Finance: NAB stands to become the nation's dominant player in superannuation and life
insurance after emerging as a white knight for AXA Asia Pacific.

Sport: Two Australian players last night were charged with bringing the game into disrepute
and West indies spinner Sulieman Benn faced a possible suspension after an alteration
on the second day of the Perth Test.

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