Vic: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers =2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-17-2009
Vic: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers =2

THE AGE

Page 1: Hopes for a deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions increasingly rest on the leadership
of the US and China after both said they would send leaders to Copenhagen earlier than
planned to wrest control of the acrimonious climate conference; Economists are forecasting
a booming economy and soaring interest rates in 2010 - despite new figures showing growth
slowed to just 0.2 per cent in the September quarter.

Page 2: Spills from Page 1.

Page 3: A series of massive underpasses costing at least $750 million could soon be
built along one of Melbourne's most gridlocked thoroughfares - Hoddle Street - under confidential
state government plans.

World: Indonesian police say they have shot and killed the West Papuan rebel leader
Kelly Kwalik in a raid on a house early yesterday morning.

Finance: The Reserve Bank has sent a blunt message to banks that inflicting more super-sized
interest rate rises on borrowers would be unjustified because profits from lending have
returned to pre-crisis levels.

Sport: The huffing and puffing went on but the West Indies attack was barely a breeze
on Australia's batsmen, who restored order with a performance that may have well taken
the game away in one day of the third Test in Perth.

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