HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30

AAP General News (Australia)
08-21-2010
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30

CANBERRA - Political leaders are casting their ballots in an election race so tight
that every vote seems to count a little more than usual. (Poll10 2nd Update)

Poll10 Vote Wrap to come

Poll10 Count series to begin after 1800 AEST

To come tonight: Poll10 Wrap, Poll10 Swing, Poll10 Senate, Poll10Greens, Poll10 Independents,
Poll10 Nationals and Poll10 Changes, others on merit



SYDNEY - Incumbent politicians and candidates challenging in NSW electorates have hit
the polls in Saturday's federal election that experts say is too close to call. (Poll10
Vote NSW Update)

SYDNEY - Labor's Maxine McKew says there is a huge focus on her Sydney seat of Bennelong
and she has not forgotten the quiet support that helped her to an upset win in 2007. (Poll10
Bennelong Update)

SYDNEY - Voters angry with NSW Labor can blame the government at next year's state
election, embattled western Sydney federal MP David Bradbury says. (Poll10 Vote Lindsay)

SYDNEY - NSW Greens Senate candidate Lee Rhiannon has cast her vote at what is expected
to be one of the busiest polling venues in the country. (Poll10 Vote Rhiannon)

Poll10 Vote NSW Wrap to come



MELBOURNE - The man most likely to give the Greens their first lower house seat in
a general election is hoping his grassroots campaign will secure a historic victory on
Saturday. (Poll10 Melbourne)

Poll10 Vote Vic Wrap to come



BRISBANE - Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has avoided the family of a victim of his
government's home insulation debacle, who were protesting at a booth where he had arranged
to vote. (Poll10 Vote Rudd)

BRISBANE - While Peter Dutton admits $2 snags probably aren't the ideal lunch for the
shadow health minister, what choice does he have? (Poll10 Vote Dutton)

BRISBANE - No more than three years ago, Wyatt Roy failed to become a prefect at his
local high school no fewer than three times. (Poll10 Vote Roy)

BRISBANE - Fake how-to-vote cards distributed as part of a dirty tricks campaign involving
how-to-vote cards won't fool Greens voters, the party says. (Poll10 Vote Greens)

Poll10 Vote Qld Wrap to come



PERTH - Deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop was touring every polling booth in her safe
Western Australian seat of Curtin on Saturday, trying "to win every single vote" she could.

(Perth Vote Curtin)

Poll10 Vote WA and Poll10 Vote SA to come



HOBART - If Hobart's Salamanca Place is any barometer, then the Greens can turn heads
on election night. (Poll10 Vote Brown)

LAUNCESTON - Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett has described Mark Latham as "that
turkey' for advising Australians to vote informally in Saturday's election. (Poll10 Vote
Kennett)

Poll10 Vote Wilkie and Poll10 Vote Jackson to come



SYDNEY - Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has brought the coalition back from
the dead and deserves to win Saturday's election, former prime minister John Howard says.

(Poll10 Vote Howard)

SYDNEY - Labor will most likely scrape by and win the federal election but anyone who
picks a winner ahead of the official count is an "idiot", Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson
says. (Poll10 Vote Richo)



CANBERRA - A shadow has been cast over polling day with the news that two Australian
soldiers have died in Afghanistan. (Afghan Aust Wrap with factbox)



IN SPORT

IRVINE, California - The last time reformed Australian party boy Geoff Huegill stood
alongside American champion Michael Phelps on the starting blocks at a major international
swimming event it was the final of the 100m butterfly at the 2004 Athens Olympics. (Swim
PanPac Wrap)



MELBOURNE - Geelong have vowed they won't rest players in their final home-and-away
match next weekend, seeing it as a full dress rehearsal for the upcoming AFL finals. (AFL
Cats)

AFL Wraps to come



SYDNEY - Penrith fans might want to get themselves a pair of special glasses for the
NRL finals series, because the Panthers are going 3D. (League Panthers)

League Wraps to come

MORE apm

KEYWORD: HIGHLIGHTS NATIONAL

� 2010 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.