WA: Main stories in the West Australian

AAP General News (Australia)
12-28-2005
WA: Main stories in the West Australian

PERTH, Dec 28 AAP - Main stories in the West Australian newspaper today:

PAGE 1: Australia's richest man, Kerry Packer, rejected medical help in his last days.

James Packer took a couple of days off and headed north on his 25m cruiser Carpe Diem
after he finished giving evidence into the One.Tel collapse four years ago (news feature
of James).

PAGE 3: Education Minister Ljiljana Ravlich admitted for the first time yesterday that
the controversial outcome-based education courses might be delayed. Perth people heading
south for a break were again caught up in traffic jams at Mandurah. The traffic jams are
becoming an annual summer tradition.

PAGE 5: Kerry Packer believed he couldn't take his estimated $6.9 billion fortune with
him when he died. He believed there was nowhere to take it (two page feature spread on
the death of Kerry Packer).

WORLD: A British diplomat has been named as the MI6 station chief in Athens who was
allegedly part of a Greek-British team that abducted Pakistan immigrants in an attempt
to extract information about the London bombings in July (Athens). Doctors carrying out
sex-selective abortions could face three years in prison, Chinese authorities have warned
(Beijing).

BUSINESS: Financial analysts yesterday warned Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd investors
to brace for a hit today as the stock market digests Kerry Packer's death but said the
best possible succession plan was in place. WA stockbrokers have tipped another big year
in 2006 for Alinta and Woodside Petroleum.

SPORT: Australian Michael Hussey pulled off a Houdini act, engineering a great escape
in yesterday's test against South Africa scoring 107 which took Australia's total to 355.

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