NSW: Main stories in Friday's Sydney newspapers=3

AAP General News (Australia)
04-30-2010
NSW: Main stories in Friday's Sydney newspapers=3

The Australian:

Page 1: Mining companies have been warned that their profits are facing a multi-billion-dollar
hit from the introduction of a resource rent tax. Evidence from the bushfires royal commission
has found there was a deep crisis of leadership during the most desperate hours in Victoria's
history. Teachers unions in NSW have warned casual and retired teachers they will enter
a "hostile environment" if they agree to administer national literacy and numeracy tests
in schools next month.

Page 2: Australia's $18 billion-a-year foreign students business is under pressure,
with applications from its biggest market, China, forecast to plunge by as much as half
for some universities and colleges.

Page 3: Nurses say they raised concerns about a West Australian anaesthetist months
before health officials began alerting 250 of his patients that they might have been exposed
to diseases such as HIV.

World: Five times more oil in a day than previously believed is spewing into the Gulf
of Mexico from a blown-out well of a sunken drilling rig. (New Orleans)

Finance: ANZ Bank chief Mike Smith has described the European economy as a "mess" with
a "very real" contagion risk likely to infect credit markets and local equities.

Sport: The Melbourne salary cap scandal has frozen the NRL player market, with several
negotiations stalling as clubs wait to see which Storm players become available next season.

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