WA: Main stories in today's Perth newspaper

AAP General News (Australia)
12-11-2008
WA: Main stories in today's Perth newspaper

PERTH, Dec 11 AAP - Main stories in today's The West Australian newspaper:

Page 1: Taxpayers secretly footed a $190,000 superannuation tax bill for former Governor-General
Michael Jeffery when he retired three months ago after he complained to the Rudd Government;
Thousands of WA jobs are at risk after a Rio Tinto call to slash 14,000 jobs worldwide
because of the global economic crisis.

Page 3: Senior WA public servants are under investigation by police over allegations
that millions of dollars of taxpayers' money earmarked for the State's premier technology
development centre are missing.

Page 5: A man who saw his friend killed with a cricket bat during a clash with a group
of teenagers told police twice they had charged the wrong person over the attack, a jury
has been told.

World: The US was stunned yesterday at the greed and arrogance of Illinois Governor
Rod Blagojevich, who was roused from bed by the FBI and arrested for plotting to sell
the vacant Senate seat of president-elect Barack Obama for cash or a plum-job with the
Obama administration. (CHICAGO)

Business: Rio Tinto has issued a dire warning to rivals BHP Billiton and Fortescue
Metals Group about the appetite of the Chinese for iron ore next year.

Sport: Ben Cousins has the hope Richmond may pick him up after the club's application
to have injured Graham Polak put on its rookie list.

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