VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
08-09-2007
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers

MELBOURNE, Aug 9 AAP - The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers:

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Page 1: A besieged John Howard will go to the polls with cash-strapped homeowners fearing
still more interest rate pain.

Page 2: AFL Collingwood legend Mick McGuane has allegedly been caught on police surveillance
visiting men claimed to be linked to Melbourne's gangland war.

Page 3: Two drunken thugs celebrated a vicious assault on a popular uni student by
buying more alcohol before one re-enacted the near-fatal blow for his friends, a court
heard yesterday.

World: North and South Korea will hold their second-ever summit this month in an attempt
to bring lasting peace to the peninsula divided for 60 years by minefields and barbed
wire.

Finance: Continued high household and government spending may result in further rate
rises later this year or early next year to bring the current interest rate cycle to a
peak at 6.75 per cent.

Sport: Grant Thomas is demanding $200,000 from AFL club St Kilda in the latest fallout
from his sacking as coach last year.

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