FED:Main stories in Tuesday's 0745 ABC news

AAP General News (Australia)
08-31-2010
FED:Main stories in Tuesday's 0745 ABC news

SYDNEY, Aug 31 AAP - Main stories in Tuesday's 0745 ABC news:

- Prime Minister Julia Gillard will renew her case for governing during a speech at
the National Press Club later on Tuesday. The federal coalition is claiming to be in the
box seat on a two-party preferred basis.

- There will be three vacant seats in the upper house of the NSW parliament when it
resumes on Tuesday. It follows the resignations of Greens MP Lee Rhiannon, Labor's John
Della Bosca and the death of Shooters MP Roy Smith.

- Laws which would allow same sex couples in NSW to adopt will be voted on during the
current state parliamentary session, with Premier Kristina Keneally said to support the
issue.

- Former prime minister John Howard has taken sides in a factional dispute in the NSW
Liberal party by endorsing a candidate in a pre-selection contest.

- The NSW Department of Health says it is confident all hospitals across the state
will now have better procedures for administering epidural anaesthesia. This follows an
incident in Sydney's south in which a woman was injected with antiseptic rather than anaesthetic
as she gave birth.

- The United Nations climate panel has been told it needs to make fundamental reforms
to prevent the kind of embarrassing errors found in one of its global warming studies.

- The former partner of one of the Pakistani cricketers implicated in the current betting
scandal allegations has claimed he told her the Sydney Test between Australia and Pakistan
was rigged.

- US President Barack Obama has tried to calm jittery financial markets, promising
new measures including further tax cuts.

- The new prime minister of the Solomon Islands says sanctions will not bring about
change in Fiji and has called for positive engagement.

- Detectives will today question a man who drove himself home after being shot in the
head outside a property in Granville, in Sydney's west.

- The Australian share market is set to open lower after weak offshore leads.

- Victorian police say charges will not be pursued after Travis Tuck, a player with
AFL club Hawthorn Hawks, suffered a suspected drug overdose.

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