Qld: Courier-Mail fronters
BRISBANE, April 2 AAP - Main stories in today's Brisbane Courier-Mail:
P1 - Australia's immigration intake will jump by up to 30,000 a year to cope with soaringapplications for citizenship from foreign students; A red-eyed Queen attends All SaintsChapel in Windsor for a family memorial service in honour of the Queen Mother; IsraeliPrime Minister Ariel Sharon has declared his country was at war and branded Yasser Arafatan enemy of the free world.
P2 - Development of a modern-day Queenslander -- a house to suit Brisbane's sub-tropicalclimate -- is on the Brisbane City Council's drawing board; Woomera escapees could perishin the desert after being given "survival" packs containing little or no water.
P3 - A police officer jailed for corruption and drug trafficking supervised a youthleadership camp while on release at a half-way house run by a former top public servant;The Triple-0 service has been rocked by allegations including a claim of sex in a callarea dedicated to dispatching emergency aircraft; A Toowoomba woman brutally murderedand hanged from a tree had only hours earlier laid out chocolate Easter eggs for her seven-year-oldson to discover when he woke up on Easter Sunday; An Australian woman has escaped thedeath penalty but will spend five years in jail in the Middle East after being found guiltyof drugs charges.
World - Israel last night declared its intention to "totally isolate" besieged Palestinianleader Yasser Arafat as its troops stepped up their operations in the West Bank despiteinternational calls for their withdrawal.
Finance - United States energy giant Mirant Corp has put its Wilkie Creek coal mineand mothballed Kogan Creek power project up for sale as part of a global divestment program.
Sport - Former Sydney Roosters coach Graham Murray is expected to be installed tomorrowto take over the North Queensland Cowboys for the next three years.
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KEYWORD: FRONTERS QLD
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