NEWS:

CANCER BATTLE FOR UGLY CHUBBY GIRL

A young Brisbane woman has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease – just one of the 400 Australians expected to be struck down by the cancer this year.
But because the Sandgate shop assistant, 19, is rather ugly, should really shed a few kilos and has never appeared in any Australian TV soap opera, her tragic story ends right here.
• How not to send her SMS messages of support – Page 4
• My own (non-malignant skin) cancer battle, but I’ll leave it to others to judge just how extremely brave I was: Queensland Premier Peter Beattie – Page 5
• I had cancer too but do you know how many more seats the ALP would have lost at the last election if it hadn’t been for my brilliant strategy of agreeing with everything John Howard said and did? – Wayne Swan: Page 7
• How your prayers can help every person who’s ever appeared on Big Brother contract an incurable form of Hodgkin’s Disease: Page 9

Beattie ... extremely brave