Main stories in Monday's 0745 ABC news

AAP General News (Australia)
08-30-2010
Main stories in Monday's 0745 ABC news

SYDNEY, Aug 30 AAP - Main stories in Monday's 0745 ABC news:

- The key independent MPs will continue their talks with Labor and the Coalition on
Monday as both parties continue their campaign to form a minority government.

- Independent MP Rob Oakshott claims he has been receiving threatening "Rambo"-style
phone calls in recent days, adding that he hopes the incidents are not an attempt to destabilise
the negotiation process and force another election.

- The Climate Institute says climate change was the deciding factor for many voters
at the ballot box at the federal election, claiming a study shows many voters swung against
Labor because of the ETS backflip.

- Lawyers for the retailer David Jones are expected to begin their challenge against
a $37 million sexual-harassment suit on Monday.

- The man at the centre has been caught on tape boasting about his involvement in a
match-fixing scandal embroiling the second test between Australia and Pakistan in Sydney
earlier this year.

- The captain of the Australian Cricket team Ricky Ponting says allegations that the
Pakistani cricket team may have thrown the test against Australia earlier this year are
shocking.

- Police will return to the Belanglo State Forest in the southern highlands on Monday
morning after the discovery of bones over the weekend.

- Australian researchers have found there has been an 80 per cent drop in the number
of shooting suicides in Australia since the former Howard government introduced the firearm
buyback scheme.

- Locals in Newtown have been celebrating after deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt visited
some residents to inform them their homes will not be bulldozed to make way for a new
train tunnel.

- Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, US President Barack Obama
has vowed to stay by the city as it gets back on its feet.

- Israeli activists have joined the campaign against Jewish settlements in the West
Bank by boycotting a performance at a cultural centre.

- The Australian basketball team has lost to Argentina at the basketball world championships.



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