FED: Milestones of the Week

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-2008
FED: Milestones of the Week

SYDNEY, Aug 8 AAP - Milestones of the week:



HONOURED - Veteran rower James Tomkins who was selected to carry the Australian flag
at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.



RELEASED - An ACCC report into Australian grocery prices, recommending the compulsory
display of unit prices for retailers.



SMASHED - Major international drug ring, with world's single largest seizure of ecstasy
in Melbourne and arrest of 16 people.



CALLED - September 6 selection for Western Australia after Troy Buswell quit as opposition
leader.



DIED - Country music legend Reg Lindsey in a Newcastle Hospital, aged 79.



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