Main stories in Tuesday's 0745 ABC news

AAP General News (Australia)
04-27-2010
Main stories in Tuesday's 0745 ABC news

SYDNEY, April 27 AAP - Main stories in Tuesday's 0745 ABC news:

- The federal government is set to make budget savings by dropping the emissions trading
scheme for around three years.

- A new report for the NSW Urban Taskforce warns a shortfall in development in Sydney
could see it lose its position as Australia's largest city to Melbourne within three decades.

- Another economic report on Tuesday predicts the resurgence of resource-rich states
will deepen Australia's economic divide.

- Access Economics says the NSW economy is showing signs of genuine recovery but may
not be entirely out of the woods.

- The latest Newspoll is reflecting growing popularity in NSW of Premier Kristina Keneally.

- Former Melbourne Storm CEO Brian Waldron has commented publicly for the first time
since the club was stripped of two Premierships for salary cap rorts.

- West Australian Treasurer Troy Buswell will learn on Tuesday whether the misuse of
tax payer funds during an extra-marital affair will cost him his job.

- The Independent Commission Against Corruption will hold a public inquiry on Tuesday
into allegations a prison guard sold drugs to inmates at a Sydney jail.

- An environmental group says coal mining has badly damaged a wilderness area in the
Gardens of Stone National Park, near Lithgow, west of Sydney.

- A new poll shows climate change is still of great concern to two-thirds of Australians
and could be a deciding factor in the next federal election.

- Gold Coast Titans have grabbed a share of second spot on the NRL ladder with a win
over Manly on Monday night.

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