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AAP General News (Australia)
08-20-2004
NSW: The main stories in today's Sydney newspapers=3

THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

Page 1: Qantas steps up its push for the federal government to review regulatory constraints
on the airline in the face of global competition; NSW Premier Bob Carr blasted by the
ICAC for "evil" comments about an ongoing inquiry; Goldman Sachs JBWere successfully pitch
to manage the float of Just Jeans by dressing its bidding team in denim.

Page 2: Index.

Page 3: ASIC bans Rene Rivkin for life from providing any financial services; New code
of conduct issued for real estate agents; Federal Treasury finds that financial services
firms have suffered a three-to fourfold increase in the cost of red tape over the past
five years.

World: Google cuts the number and price of shares it planned to sell during its controversial
float; Seven political parties to campaign for Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri
in next months' election against Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono; Spending on advertising in
the US rose 6.4 per cent in the first half to $US49.6 billion.

Companies: Winemaker Southcorp reports solid turnaround in earnings but warns of a
subdued profit increase in the year ahead; Leighton Holdings says the group's Spencer
Street railway development in Melbourne was back on track after major write-downs of the
project sent its annual profit lower.

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