Main stories in today's 3AW news

AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-2008
Main stories in today's 3AW news

MELBOURNE, April 17 AAP - Main stories in today's 3AW news:

- PM Kevin Rudd's ambition to build low-cost childhood centres wins support from childcare
groups.

- Detectives step up hunt for arsonist who started 1997 Dandenong Ranges bushfires.

- Suspended sentences will remain on offer for some offences in Victoria.

- Victorian drivers' licence tests backlogged until June, quicker to get a licence interstate.

- Survivor of New Zealand canyoning disaster told how he swam to safety while classmates
he would never see again cheered him on.

- Victorian government cracks down on graffiti, with increased fines and jail sentences
part of new laws.

-SPORT - AFL team Melbourne quashes rumours that skipper David Neitz will step down.

- Getaway driver in Lewis Moran murder had fall-out with son Jason Moran, court hears.

- FINANCE - All ords 5694, Aus dollar US$93.78

- SPORT - Speculation AFL Brisbane Lions player Jonathan Brown will be poached by Collingwood.

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