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AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - DEC 24, 2003.

AsiaPulse News, December, 2003

SYDNEY, Dec 24 Asia Pulse - What Australian newspapers are saying on Wednesday, December 24:

THE AUSTRALIAN

- A tax-free cash bonus scheme for people who agree to delay drawing an aged pension could be increased to encourage phased retirement; Rene Rivkin fronts for a medical examination to determine his fitness for jail; HIH informant Bill Howard escapes jail but must give evidence against Brad Cooper and other HIH kingpins.

- Foreign Minister Alexander Downer invokes rarely used powers preventing the release of documents about whether Australian Taliban David Hicks is being held legally by the US at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Ten more hunger-striking asylum-seekers detained on Nauru are admitted to hospital.

- The University of NSW clears...

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