VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
04-11-2006
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers

THE AGE

Page 1: Prime minister John Howard is likely to appear before the Cole inquiry as early
as Thursday, after he agreed yesterday to provide a written statement to the commission
detailing what he knew about AWB's dealings in Iraq and what the government did to protect
the wheat exporter; Victoria Police has become Australia's first force to use an undercover
officer to infiltrate a radical Islamic group.



Page 2: If John Howard testifies in the Cole inquiry he will become the second Australian
prime minister to front a royal commission.



Page 3: Full-fee paying places for domestic first-year undergraduates at Victorian
universities have surged by up to 80 per cent in the past year, an Age survey has found.



World: The US military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the
leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar
with the program.



Finance: Australian companies have delivered the world's best returns to shareholders
over the past five years and it is not just because of a buoyant market, according to
a study.



Sport: The AFL has provoked a showdown with its most powerful club, Collingwood, by
finally decreeing that every club in the competition must design an alternate jumper by
the end of the month.



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