Fed: Milestones of the week

AAP General News (Australia)
04-13-2007
Fed: Milestones of the week

SYDNEY, April 13 AAP - Milestones of the week

RETIRED - Rugby league legend Andrew Johns, after suffering a neck injury that doctors
warned could catastrophically worsen if he continued playing football.

DEPLOYED - 300 Australian troops, to Afghanistan as part of a special operation to
fight the resurgent Taliban.

FAREWELLED - Two victims of the Sydney ferry disaster, Morgan Innes and Dr Alan Blinn
at funerals in Brisbane and Sydney.

PEAKED - The Easter road toll, at 27, three more deaths on Australia's roads than the
same time last year.

RULED - The Australian Communication and Media Authority, that radio presenter Alan
Jones broadcast comments which encouraged violence and vilified people on his program
before the Cronulla race riot in Sydney.

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