Fed: Milestones for the week

AAP General News (Australia)
04-20-2007
Fed: Milestones for the week

SYDNEY, April 20 AAP - - Milestones of the week



PARCHED - The Murray-Darling Basin, where Prime Minister John Howard says irrigators
will lose their water supplies unless there is significant rain in the next six to eight
weeks.



QUIT - Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd and Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey, from
their regular spot on morning television show Sunrise, amid a row over planning for a
"fake" Anzac Day dawn service in Vietnam.



PLANNED - A new refugee exchange scheme, in which asylum seekers detained on Nauru
would be taken to the US and Cuban refugees held at Guantanamo Bay would be resettled
in Australia.

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