AAP General News (Australia)
04-20-2009
Main stories in today's ABC 0900 Radio News
PERTH, April 20 AAP - Main stories on today's 1000 ABC Radio news:
- Federal opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull says the increasing number of asylum seekers
reaching Australia shows the government was wrong to scrap temporary protection visas
and should reintroduce them.
- Federal opposition frontbencher Christopher Pine says there's a small group of liberal
MPs who are trying to undermine the deputy leader Julie Bishop.
- The Royal Commission into Victoria's bushfires has been told the bushfire warning
system didn't cope with conditions on black Saturday.
- Rio Tinto share holders have expressed their anger during the annual general meeting
about the way the mining company handled several issues including the cost of purchasing
Alcan.
- Former United states surgeon Jayant Patel has been committed to stand trial in the
Supreme Court in Brisbane.
- In AFL, Richmond president Gary March says the AFL does have a contingency plan if
coach Terry Wallace quits the club.
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