Tas: Main stories in today's Hobart Mercury

AAP General News (Australia)
08-31-2007
Tas: Main stories in today's Hobart Mercury

HOBART, Aug 31 AAP - The main stories in today's Hobart Mercury:

Page 1: The Tasmanian opposition challenged the state government's $15 million sponsorship
of the Hawthorn Hawks AFL club in light of drug use in the league. Jana Rawlinson has
won her second 400m hurdles world championship gold medal, in Osaka, Japan.

Page 2: Andrew Johns said he had regularly taken drugs from the age of 19 to escape
from the pressure of being a famous rugby league player.

Page 3: A Hobart hotel, the Mornington Inn, threatened to cut work hours for employees
who refused to sign Australian Workplace Agreements last July.

World: A Malaysian man nicknamed King Tooth pulled a seven-carriage train using a steel
rope clenched in his teeth in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Radical anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
has taken the Mahdi Army out of action in Iraq for up to six months.

Finance: Timber giant Gunns Limited reported an $88 million profit after tax, up by
one per cent from last year.

Sport: Gai Waterhouse has urged Sydney racing administrators to move the spring carnival
to summer as the equine influenza outbreak shut down Randwick racecourse yesterday.

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