VIC:Main stories on Nine news

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2010
VIC:Main stories on Nine news

MELBOURNE, Aug 18 AAP - Main stories in Nine News:

- Actor and TV personality Ernie Dingo will face a western Australian court charged
with assaulting an 11-year-old boy.

- The Victorian government is out to lure seniors with free weekend public transport.

- Elderly residents at a Mornington nursing home have been left confused and distressed
by reports the home is about to close.

- The developers of the Frankston apartment block described as a death trap deny they
knew the apartments were faulty.

- The fate of the financially troubled DFO outlet at South Wharf will be known tomorrow.

- With three days to go, the opposition has released its official costings.

- The mother of a surfer killed by a shark of WA has told how she feared for her son
after a shark-related scare a few years ago while surfing on the Gold Coast.

- A convicted killer who is charged with conspiracy to murder and other charges has
fled Victoria and is thought to be hiding in NSW.

- Bali Nine mule Scott Rush's appeal has suffered a setback.

- A single mother of four says she feels let down by the Transport Accident Commission,
saying the authority has withdrawn its support for her two months after an accident that
left her injured.

- Veterans have marked Vietnam Veterans' Day.

- Explorers Burke and Wills have been acknowledged with a ceremony 150 years since
they left on their ill-fated expedition.

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KEYWORD: MONITOR 1800 NINE

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