Main stories in today's 0745 ABC news

AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-2009
Main stories in today's 0745 ABC news

SYDNEY, Aug 17 AAP - Main stories in today's 0745 ABC news:

- The Australian Conservation Foundation says there is no need for industry assistance
under the renewable energy target legislation.

- The NSW government says it will waive fees for investors wanting to build new wind
farms in NSW.

- The Royal Commission into Victoria's summer bushfires will hand down its interim
report on Monday.

- The Greens are pushing for changes to the federal government's plan for universities
to charge student services fees.

- The latest opinion poll shows that federal opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull is
still out of favour with voters.

- A UN expert has arrived in Australia for a 12-day mission examining the plight of
indigenous people.

- The federal government says several issues need to be resolved before it considers
a bid to buy Australia's biggest cotton plantation.

- Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is set to appoint the first women as government
ministers since the Islamic revolution 30 years ago.

- The number of British troops that have died in Afghanistan has reached 204.

- Two Russian air force jets have collided during a rehearsal for a major air show.

- Jamaican Usain Bolt has won the men's 100 metre sprint at the world athletics championships
in Berlin in world record time.

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