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

AAP General News (Australia)
12-13-2007
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers=2

THE AGE:

Page 1: Kevin Rudd has sent a pointed message to the United States that it must pull
its weight in the international effort to combat climate change; The Rudd government is
under pressure to expand the Northern Territory intervention into Queensland in the wake
of revelations about the gang rape of a 10-year-old girl in a Cape York indigenous community.

Page 2: The girl at the centre of the rape case in far north Queensland has been through
more trauma in her short life than most in a lifetime.

Page 3: One of Australia's most revered and influential architects has called for a
rethink of St Kilda's controversial triangle development, arguing that a much bigger,
more community-friendly development was possible at minimal cost.

World: A huge bomb in a Christian town east of Beirut has killed a senior military
officer who was a leading contender to take over as army chief after the incumbent commander
becomes president.

Finance: James Packer's newly minted Crown gaming business has splashed out $2 billion
on its first casino purchase in the US, less than two weeks after the company was split
from the Packer media arm.

Sport: It's said imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so Aaron Baddeley should
be chuffed that Stuart Appleby, 10 years his senior, is attempting to copy his famous
nine-second putting routine coming into the $1.75 million Australian Open championship.

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