AAP backgrounders, analyses

AAP General News (Australia)
04-28-2011
AAP backgrounders, analyses

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CANBERRA - As Julia Gillard and other guests at the royal wedding enjoy a lavish feast
the treasurer is about to deliver much more meagre morsels. (Newscope Federal, by Paul
Osborne, 750 words, due Friday.)



CANBERRA - The rising cost of living, a tough budget and at least one interest rate
rise before the end of the year. Who'd be a consumer? But of course only one of these
is certain at this stage. (Economy, AAP Backgrounder, by Colin Brinsden, Economics Correspondent,
about 800 words, due Friday.)



CANBERRA - The federal government is talking tough in its bid to return the budget
to a surplus in 2012/13, yet more severe cuts are needed to really balance the books.

(Budget11, AAP Backgrounder, By Ed Logue, 1080 words, sent Thursday April 28)



DARWIN - If you were diabetic and wheelchair bound after having your right foot amputated,
life would already be hard enough. But imagine, on top of that, being homeless and addicted
to alcohol. (Drift, AAP Newsfeature, By Larine Statham, about 1000 words, to be sent Friday,
April 22).



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