Main stories in Friday's 1300 2UE news

AAP General News (Australia)
12-10-2010
Main stories in Friday's 1300 2UE news

SYDNEY, Dec 10 AAP - Main stories in Friday's 1300 2UE news:

- The man alleged to have murdered underworld figure Carl Williams inside a Melbourne
jail has been committed to stand trial for murder.

- The Gillard government is coming under increasing pressure to outline which Australian
laws it believes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has broken.

- Hundreds of Wagga residents are still being kept from their homes despite the worst
of the floods easing in the region.

- A school house mistress has been found guilty of sexually abusing boys in her care.

- Hospital staff are supporting a new government website which compares the performance
of different hospitals.

- South Australian batsman Callum Ferguson has pushed his case for national selection,
notching up a century against NSW at the SCG.

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QLD:Abbott anti-rape mantra not on: Greens

AAP General News (Australia)
08-03-2010
QLD:Abbott anti-rape mantra not on: Greens

By Angela Harper

BRISBANE, Aug 3 AAP - Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's bid to win female votes may have
just taken a hit after what the Greens describe as an "inappropriate" anti-rape mantra
levelled at his counterpart.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has thrown down the debate gauntlet to Mr Abbott after
initially rejecting his call for three debates.

The pair held what was meant to be their one and only debate at the end of the first
week of the election campaign.

On Monday, Ms Gillard changed her mind, publicly challenging Mr Abbott to a second
debate on the economy.

Mr Abbott has rejected her offer saying it clashes with his campaigning schedule.

"Labor had the chance to have three debates at the start of the campaign, they repeatedly
refused and frankly, things have moved on, the time for changing the rules has passed,"

he told reporters in Brisbane.

"She said no repeatedly, and when she said no, I thought she meant no."

This is a term commonly used to describe a women's right to say no to sex.

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young told reporters there should be three debates that
should include Greens Leader Bob Brown.

"In relation to Tony Abbott's comments, I do think they're inappropriate," Senator
Hanson-Young told reporters in Brisbane.

"Like his colleague Barnaby Joyce, perhaps he is suffering from a bit of foot-in-mouth disease."

Senator Joyce commented on ABC's Q&A program on Monday night that asylum seekers could
bring foot and mouth disease into the country.

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SA: The main stories in the 1200 ABC SA news

AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-2009
SA: The main stories in the 1200 ABC SA news

ADELAIDE, Dec 21 AAP - The main stories in the 1200 ABC SA news:

- An Adelaide woman is charged with murder after the death of a man on SA's Yorke Peninsula.

- Qantas defends the employment of New Zealand pilots.

- Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the outcome of the Copenhagen climate
change summit vindicates his stand against Australia's emissions trading scheme.

- Australian shares higher in morning trade.

- South Australia continues the run chase for outright points in the Sheffield Shield
match against Western Australia at Adelaide Oval.

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KEYWORD: MONITOR 1200 ABC SA NEWS

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Fed: PM says every possible asset being deployed in search-2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-12-2009
Fed: PM says every possible asset being deployed in search-2

"We are deploying all possible assets to try and identify the location of this aircraft,"

Mr Rudd told the Seven Network.

"Every Australian feels this morning the extraordinary anxiety of the families of these
nine Australians who are missing."

He described the incident was "every family's worst nightmare".

Mr Rudd, who is familiar with the search area having walked the Kokoda Track, says
the terrain is very difficult and dangerous.

"And it's got a particularly difficult set of climatic conditions as well, very rugged
mountain terrain, very fickle climate."

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NSW: Jury discharged without verdict at Chant murder trial

AAP General News (Australia)
04-02-2009
NSW: Jury discharged without verdict at Chant murder trial

A judge has discharged the jury at the New South Wales Supreme Court trial of a woman
accused of shooting her husband dead and dismembering his body.

The jury told New South Wales Supreme Court Justice RODERICK HOWIE it couldn't decide
if the incident was murder .. manslaughter or simply an accident.

JOYCE CHANT denies killing her husband ROBERT CHANT in September 1992 but has admitted
to dismembering his torso .. legs and arm and dumping them in three separate locations
across the state.

During Ms CHANT'S trial the jury was told her violent .. abusive husband was accidentally
shot during a struggle over a gun.

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KEYWORD: CHANT (SYDNEY)

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Vic: Journalists, community called to rally outside The Age

AAP General News (Australia)
08-29-2008
Vic: Journalists, community called to rally outside The Age

A protest rally will be staged from 2.30pm (AEST) outside the offices of The Age newspaper
in Melbourne.

Unions say the rally will protest against what staff claim is the lowering of editorial
standards at the paper.

Fairfax Media staff in Melbourne and Sydney are on strike until Monday over job cuts and pay.

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KEYWORD: FAIRFAX RALLY (MELBOURNE)

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Fed: Olympic flame starts relay =14

AAP General News (Australia)
04-24-2008
Fed: Olympic flame starts relay =14

On Anzac Parade pro-Chinese and pro-Tibetan supporters clashed just hundreds of metres
from the Australian War Memorial before the torch arrived.

Three protesters jumped the barricades and carried Free Tibet signs down the centre
of Anzac Parade .. a road flanked with memorials to Austraila's war dead.

About 50 pro China demonstrators followed them and tried to cover the Tibetans and
their signs with large red Chinese flags.

Pandamonium broke out as the two groups yelled at each other until police intervened
and ordered everyone behind the barricades.

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