Main stories in today's AM program

AAP General News (Australia)
08-30-2006
Main stories in today's AM program

SYDNEY, Aug 30 AAP - Main stories in today's AM program:

* Labor says that the latest evidence to the Cole inquiry reveals that the federal
government definitely knew that AWB was involved in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal.

* Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer talks about the latest at the Cole inquiry.

* The latest Newspoll figures for Queensland show Peter Beattie's Labor government
cruising to victory in the state election in less than two weeks.

* The federal government will offer up to $5,000 to people living in areas of high
unemployment who are prepared to move across the country to find work.

* A day after the defence against him was dropped, former school teacher John Mark
Karr apparently still believes he killed six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.

* After almost three years as CEO of the Football Federation of Australia John O'Neill
says he's leave the position when his contract expires in March.

* British condiment HP sauce has been manufactured in the English city of Birmingham
for more than a century, but last week the American owner Heinz decided to close the factory.

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