SA: Main stories in today's Adelaide Advertiser

AAP General News (Australia)
12-11-2001
SA: Main stories in today's Adelaide Advertiser

ADELAIDE, Dec 11 AAP - The main stories in today's Adelaide Advertiser:

Page 1 - Householders and many small businesses face paying up to $600 for new electricity
meters if they join the national market in 2003.

Page 2 - New SA Electricity Minister Wayne Matthew has hit out at critics of the national
electricity market, likening them to those who attacked telecommunications industry deregulation
in the early 1990s.

Page 3 - South Australia's continuing cold weather has hit traditional summer sales
of beer, ice-cream and soft drinks and reduced seaside trade by up to 40 per cent; Adelaide
has had its coldest start to the summer since 1969.

Overseas - The Middle East peace process was under new pressure yesterday after US
special envoy Anthony Zinni gave the Israelis and Palestinians a 48-hour deadline to shape
up or see him quit (Jerusalem); An Amtrak Acela Express train travelling about 160kph
rounded a curve and killed three teenagers who were walking on the tracks with their backs
to the train, police said (Pennsylvania).

Finance - Newmont Mining yesterday delivered what could be a knock-out blow in the
takeover fight for Normandy; Wind-farming plans for SA were gaining momentum; Minerals
and Energy Minister Wayne Matthew said yesterday. Shares in Coca-Cola Amatil jumped five
per cent yesterday after new chief executive Terry Davis said CCA was on track to post
net profits of $200 million in 2001.

Sport - Adelaide Oval ground manager Les Burdett might have dashed Stuart MacGill's
hopes of a return to Test cricket by declaring the pitch for the first Test between Australia
and South Africa not as conducive to spin as last month.

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