VIC: Main Stories in today s Melbourne newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
02-19-2001
VIC: Main Stories in today s Melbourne newspapers

MELBOURNE, Feb 18 AAP - The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers:



HERALD SUN

Page 1 - Cash-strapped Australian motorists are pouring almost $310,000 an hour into
the profits of oil companies.

Page 2 - It was just another rainy day in paradise for Melbourne's Internet honeymooners
in Port Douglas yesterday.

World - Iraq vows revenge for US and British air strikes near Baghdad it says killed
two civilians; A cargo ship crammed with up to 1,000 illegal Kurdish migrants has run
aground on the French Riviera.

Finance - Woolworths is considering on-site chemists at its supermarkets; Chief executives
at four of Wall Street's biggest firms received an average 23 per cent pay rise last year.

Sport - Former Newcastle hard man Paul Rauhihi could face a stint on the sidelines
after a dangerous high shot on Melbourne debutant Steven Bell; Con Boutsinis scored a
hat-trick as South Melbourne thrashed Marconi 6-1 yesterday to send a chilling note to
the rest of the NSL.

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