HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, April 30

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HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, April 30

CANBERRA - Pan Pharmaceutical had been the victim of a rogue laboratory analyst whofalsified test results, the company's chairman Ross Brown said today. (Pan Second Daylead)

SYDNEY - Snake oil and medicine-man quackery, or natural pathway to wellbeing? (Pan- News Analysis)

(To come - Pan Nightlead, following Pan presser and meeting with TGA. Also to come- Pan Politics N/L, Pan Jobs N/L, Pan List, plus updated factbox)

CANBERRA - Federal Labor MP Laurie Brereton today called for an inquiry into a nationalspy agency amid allegations it illegally tapped his phones. (DSD Brereton. DSD N/L tocome.)

CANBERRA - ASIO director general Dennis Richardson today denied that Australia's domesticspy agency did not have the resources to do its job. (ASIO)

MELBOURNE - Australia will play a key role in the fight against SARS by hosting a specialbriefing on the killer virus for emergency medicine experts from 40 nations, it was announcedtoday. (SARS Aust. N/L to come.)

MELBOURNE - Federal Opposition Leader Simon Crean today said Labor could reveal detailsof its Medicare "rescue package" within two days of the federal Budget. (Medicare Crean.

N/L possible)

PERTH - A former able seaman said today senior Navy officers pressured her into lyingto a board of inquiry into the accident which killed four young sailors on HMAS Westraliafive years ago. (Westralia)

JAKARTA - Indonesian police have arrested 41 Vietnamese boat people bound for Australiaafter earlier allowing them to sail on, the official Antara news agency said today. (IndonBoat Arrests. N/L to come, taking in end of people smuggling conference.)

SYDNEY - Australia's competition watchdog has launched a wide-ranging regulatory andpricing review of mobile telco services, with dominant carrier Telstra Corp wary aboutincreased regulation. (Mobiles ACCC)

MELBOURNE - Shares in biotech Biota Holdings Ltd rocketed upward at the open of tradingtoday, after the company announced today that its US subsidiary, Biota Inc, had made animportant breakthrough in the development a new drug to combat HIV/AIDS. (BIOTA to come)

LONDON - Mark Bosnich today vowed to fight a nine-month ban handed down by England'sFootball Association following the former Socceroo's positive test for cocaine. (SoccerBosnich Daylead)

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