VIC:Main stories in Melbourne newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
08-16-2010
VIC:Main stories in Melbourne newspapers

THE AGE:

Page 1: Tony Abbott will unveil a plan to get young people off welfare and into work
as part of his final push to the election finish line, and has warned welfare recipients
that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Melbourne's water storages are having their
best winter run-off since 1995, swelling above 38 per cent full and adding more than 220
billion litres to last year's historically low levels.

Page 2: Another school merger is in turmoil, with three councillors at a new super
school in Reservoir resigning amid claims they were deceived and regret agreeing to the
amalgamation.

Page 3: Up to three-quarters of teenagers who live in Melbourne's west believe gangs
are a presence in their neighbourhoods and a third have had an encounter with them, according
to a two-year study on community safety.

World: Faced with stinging criticism from Republicans after he appeared to endorse
a controversial plan to build a mosque near ground zero in New York, President Barack
Obama has sought to clarify his stance in a sign that his comments had become more political
than the White House first realised.

Finance: A central figure in the Operation Wickenby investigations into offshore tax
schemes, Philip de Figueiredo, has lost a key court battle in his attempt to stop Tax
Office authorities extraditing him to Australia to face fraud charges.

Sport: Hawthorn midfielder Brad Sewell says it was important for the Hawks to play
well on Sunday to support their coach following their president's suggestion that Alastair
Clarkson had been out-coached against Sydney.

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