Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News

AAP General News (Australia)
04-07-2006
Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News

SYDNEY, April 7 AAP - Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News:

- Residents of Katherine in the Northern Territory expected to start cleaning up today
after flood waters peaked around 19 metres late yesterday.

- Residents in Western Australia's north are bracing themselves for another cyclone.

- A windy weather forecast for the NSW mid north coast could hamper efforts to control
a large bushfire at Bungwahl south of Foster.

- A former senior Bush administration official says the US president himself authorised
the leaking of secret information.

- Lawyers appearing before the AWB inquiry given until lunchtime to apply to question
two senior government ministers.

- A French inquiry into Iraq's oil-for-food program places the country's former interior
minister under investigation.

- The NSW Police Association says it won't support the use of water cannons at union
picket lines and protests.

- There'll be more talks today between the NSW government, smash repairers and NRMA
Insurance aimed at resolving the conflict over the company's internet based repair system.

- NSW Premier Morris Iemma leaves for Rome today to represent Sydney as the next host
of the Catholic World Youth Day.

- NSW government has announced 50 students in public housing will receive $2,000 scholarships.

- In golf, Fiji's Vijay Singh holds a one-shot lead after his opening round in the
US Masters at Augusta.

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