Main stories in today's AM Program

AAP General News (Australia)
12-10-2007
Main stories in today's AM Program

SYDNEY, Dec 10 AAP - Main stories in today's AM Program:

* The draft declaration on how to combat climate change will be discussed this week
at the UN Climate Conference in Bali and Australia is expected to play a pivotal role.

* Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has charged Professor Ross Garnaut with drafting a climate-change
framework for Labor including shorter-term emissions targets.

* Oprah Winfrey is lending her support to Barack Obama in the US presidential race.

* A new survey has revealed a growing anti-American sentiment in Australia.

* Despite all the talk at the Middle East Peace Conference in America there are plenty
of old and emerging problems which threaten to de-rail all the intentions of finding a
peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

* The Queensland attorney-general is asking the state director of public prosecutions
to explain why nine men who pleaded guilty to raping a 10-year-old girl escaped jail terms.

* The Rudd Labor government will introduce legislation to phase out AWAs next year,
but that hasn't stopped some companies from trying to sign up their workforce before the
agreements are abolished. The latest company is BHP Billiton.

* PrimeAg is a cropping company about to list on the Australian stock exchange. Its
directors are in the process of buying large properties in Queensland and NSW, convinced
that when the drought breaks they will be in a prime position.

* Anne Darwin, the wife of John Darwin, the canoeist who faked his own death, has been
arrested as she arrived back in the UK after living in Panama in Central America.

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