Main stories in Monday's AM program

AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-2009
Main stories in Monday's AM program

SYDNEY, Aug 17 AAP - Main stories in Monday's AM program:

* The federal government will on Monday, begin negotiations to get the renewable energy
target legislation through the parliament.

* Australia's largest irrigation property Cubbie Station, on the Murray-Darling River
system, is up for sale with a $450 million price tag.

* The commander of the Australian taskforce in Afghanistan says Australian troops may
be needed for five more years. Coalition and Afghan forces are now providing security
for this week's presidential election.

* The Royal Commission into Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires will have its interim
report tabled in state parliament on Monday. It's expected that massive changes will be
recommended.

* The family of a man accused of shooting dead an Australian security contractor in
Iraq, say he was disturbed and had a history of psychiatric illness.

* For the first time, Palestinian militants have detonated a suicide bomb against fellow arabs.

* Jamaican Usain Bolt is proving to be a one-man publicity boom for his sport, smashing
his own world record to run the men's 100m sprint in 9.58 seconds at the world athletics
championships in Berlin.

* A special investigator from the UN begins his two-week examination of Aboriginal
communities in Australia.

* As the US recovers from its worst housing slump since the Great Depression, it is
preparing for a plunge in commercial property values.

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