Main stories in today's AM Program

AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-2007
Main stories in today's AM Program

SYDNEY, Aug 24 AAP - Main stories in today's AM Program:

* Labor is promising to take control of every public hospital in the nation if it can't
improve the system by negotiation. Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd also says he will act
to remove hospital bottle-necks and try to end the culture of cost and blame-shifting
between the states and the commonwealth.

* A new intelligence report released in the US reveals that the United States has deep
doubts about the Iraqi government.

* The premier of Western Australia Alan Carpenter says the Browse Basin Project, a
multi-billion dollar facility to process gas, will go ahead. He vows to protect the environment
but admits he can't please everyone when it comes to deciding where the facility will
be built.

* 79 horses arriving in Australia for stud duties have been quarantined for thirty
days at facilities in Sydney and Melbourne after travelling with a horse that's suspected
to have equine influenza.

* There is almost the same amount of feral pigs in Australia as there are people. The
animals can weigh up to 200 kilograms, carry disease, destroy crops and devastate the
environment.

* In a bid to help and warn Australian investors corporate regulator ASIC has publicly
named a swag of risky investment products.

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