NSW:Main stories in Wednesday's newspapers=3

AAP General News (Australia)
12-29-2010
NSW:Main stories in Wednesday's newspapers=3

The Australian:

Page 1: The floods across the eastern states will strip up to $6 billion from the national
economy. The Ashes are lost and the future of Ricky Ponting's career and captaincy are
in doubt. Almost half the nation's 12-year-olds have a science lesson less than once a
week.

Page 2: Julia Gillard faces mounting pressure from business groups ramping up their
campaign to have the government administer parental leave payments beyond July 1 next
year. Sydney-Hobart win may be taken away.

Page 3: The architect of the HECS fee-payment system has condemned a Greens' proposal
to use revenue from a more punitive mining tax to fund free university education. The
arrival of a relative may have saved surfing champion Stephanie Gilmore from further injury.

Israeli archaeologists say they may have found the earliest evidence for the existence
of modern man.

World: (Kabul and Washington) The Pentagon's multi-billion-dollar operation to supply
food and military equipment to US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is run in chaos and corruption.

Finance: Japan's Dai-ichi Insurance has launched a takeover bid for the 70 per cent
stake in Tower Australia it does not already own.

Sport: Ricky Ponting's career is in peril after an horrendous Ashes loss.

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