Vic: Main stories on 1800 Nine News

AAP General News (Australia)
04-15-2010
Vic: Main stories on 1800 Nine News

MELBOURNE, April 15 AAP - Main stories on Nine's news:

- Christine Nixon has sought refuge with her parents interstate amid calls for her
sacking as bushfire reconstruction chief.

- A number of Black Saturday survivors say they are the ones who will be hurt if Christine
Nixon is sacked, but others have questioned why she was appointed in the first place.

- Nine News says a $6 million crisis centre in Melbourne was left idle on Black Saturday
while staff coped in an outdated building metres away.

- A convicted killer is on the run after escaping from a jail near Ararat overnight.

- The High Court has thrown out a bid by Peter Dupas to stop his retrial for the murder
of Mersina Halvagis from going ahead.

- Residents in Melbourne's west have called on the Maribyrnong Council to stop drivers
from desecrating a war memorial along Geelong Road.

- Hundreds of spectators have watched as a plane in the Red Bull Air Race crashed into
Perth's Swan River.

- Jail authorities in Bali have laughed off claims Schapelle Corby's mental state has
deteriorated so much that she should be granted clemency.

- An art work commissioned by Melbourne City Council that depicts the blood of dead
babies has sparked controversy.

- Mel Gibson has reportedly split with his Russian girlfriend five months after the
birth of their baby.

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