Main stories in Wednesday's 0745 ABC news

AAP General News (Australia)
02-16-2011
Main stories in Wednesday's 0745 ABC news

SYDNEY, Feb 16 AAP - Main stories in Wednesday's 0745 ABC news:

- The NSW Labor government is heading for annihilation at next month's state election
if the results of a new opinion poll are repeated at the ballot boxes.

- Liberal member for Goulburn Pru Goward says the latest Nielsen Poll shows NSW voters
don't want the sort of power-sharing arrangements that resulted from the last federal
election.

- Opposition leader Barry O'Farrell has compared the Greens to the devil during a forum
of Christian leaders at Parliament House on Tuesday night.

- The Shooters and Fishers Party say if they hold the power in the upper house after
the election it will make sure its supporters will not be disadvantaged by government
policies.

- The federal opposition will press the government to reveal how much it spent on the
funerals for some victims of the Christmas Island boat disaster, but there are more signs
of divisions within the Coalition over the issue.

- The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been ordered to stand trial on charges
he had sex with an underage prostitute and abused his power to cover it up.

- Economic ties will be top of the agenda when prime minister Julia Gillard is officially
welcomed to the New Zealand capital.

- Two men are due to face court on Wednesday after police allegedly found more than
$4 million of the drug ice on George Street at The Rocks.

- Stocks on Wall Street have fallen as a result of disappointing economic data, with
local stocks expected to open in the red.

- US president Barack Obama has criticised the Iranian regime for crushing protests
held in celebration of Egypt's political change.

- Australia will head into the cricket World Cup without any wins in the warm-up matches.



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