Main stories in Tuesday's AM program

AAP General News (Australia)
08-10-2010
Main stories in Tuesday's AM program

SYDNEY, Aug 10 AAP - Main stories in Tuesday's AM program:

* Prime Minister Julia Gillard has appeared before a studio audience in her hometown
of Adelaide on Sunday night, answering a range of questions from her thoughts on Mark
Latham, being a red-head, defending her voice and criticisms about her unmarried status.

* Shadow finance minister Andrew Robb says the opposition has found a potential hole
of $3 billion in the government's costings, but cabinet minister Chris Bowen says the
Coalition's misguided figures show how incapable they are of handling the economy.

* Indonesia's counterterrorism unit has arrested notorious cleric Abu Bakar Bashir
in connection with a new terror cell which had access to a large amounts of explosive
and planned to bomb the Australian embassy.

* Actress Mia Farrow has testified at the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader
Charles Taylor that Naomi Campbell knew she had been given diamonds by the African warlord,
contradicting much of the supermodel's testimony given at The Hague last week.

* The Plain English Foundation, an organisation that looks at the straightforward use
of the English language, says both Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition leader
Tony Abbott both use very scripted and controlled words when speaking to voters.

* Prime Minister Julia Gillard and environment minister Penny Wong will pledge on Tuesday
to buy back as much water as the Murray Darling Basin Authority deems necessary to make
the river sustainable.

* Many elderly residents in the central-western town of Forbes are disenfranchised
by this election campaign, with some saying they avoid the topic of politics all together
in their conversations together.

* In the central-western NSW town of Orange, water, the environment and services for
young people are a major concern for voters in this federal election.



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