NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers
SYDNEY, April 23 AAP - The main stories in today's Sydney newspapers:
THE AUSTRALIAN:
Page 1 - Fears of more big collapses in telecom industry have prompted sweeping changesto competition rules to curb Telstra's market domination. Peter James Knight found guiltyof murdering security guard Steven Rogers at the East Melbourne Fertility Clinic on July16. Prominent Australians back plans for a scholarship program in honour of General SirJohn Monash. Shares out of favour but real estate is running hot, a new investment surveyshows.
Page 2 - An Aboriginal leader wants doctors to get a tax-free $20,000 a year towardstheir studies if they spend six years in remote or urban indigenous communities to beata shortage of medicos. Family pays tribute to murder victim Steve Rogers.
Page 3 - Mel Gibson launches new theatre at National Institute for Dramatic Art. Privatehospitals say they will wear the brunt of patient liability claims after the states andterritories moved to protect doctors from spiralling medical negligence costs. ExpatriateAustralian art critic Robert Hughes will face arrest if he fails to appear in a West Australiancourt to answer dangerous driving charges.
World - An Israeli helicopter gunship kills a leading Palestinian militant and hisbodyguard in a missile strike. The only man indicted as a conspirator over the September11 attacks has told a US court was praying for the destruction of the US and Israel. Thehead of a global chemical weapons control body was ousted yesterday by a US-sponsoredvote provoked by his diplomatic overtures to secure Iraq's compliance on arms inspection.
Finance - Healthcare conglomerate Mayne has sacked its hospitals general manager andwarned of a dramatic profit slump of up to 18 per cent. Westpac has become the last ofthe big four banks to lay its bets on the wealth management consolidation game, yesterdaybuying Rothschild Australia Asset Management and hinting at more acquisitions to come.
Sport - A tribunal ruling means West Coast's Phillip Matera will miss two matches forpushing a field umpire. Disgraced $1 million-a-year superstar Wayne Carey will resurrecthis career next month back where it began 20 years ago - at North Wagga Saints in southernNSW.
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