Main stories in Tuesday's AM program

AAP General News (Australia)
08-30-2011
Main stories in Tuesday's AM program

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

- Prime Minister Julia Gillard will visit Port Kembla to meet with workers at the BlueScope
Steel mill, but locals say the assistance package announced to help those affected by
the company's job cuts is not enough.

- New research by the Grattan Institute into the carbon tax has found that steelmakers
would make a windfall gain under the federal government's industry compensation package.

- Australia's laws against people smugglers could be unravelled on Tuesday, as lawyers
representing dozens of Indonesian men argue that people smugglers are legally entitled
to assist asylum seekers.

- Rebel fighters in Libya are finding more evidence of the brutality enacted by Muammar
Gaddafi forces, including the discovery of more bodies outside a warehouse in Tripoli.

- While tens of thousands of Libyan political prisoners remain unaccounted for, others
have been found aboard a ship docked in Benghazi harbour.

- Since the demise of the Gaddafi regime there have been calls for Lockerbie bomber
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to be extradited to the West, but his family says he's on his
death bed in Tripoli and should be left at peace.

- The UN is warning authorities to be on high alert over the possible return of the
bird flu virus.

- Almost 10 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks, Americans are preparing
to commemorate those lost, including the 184 people who died at the Pentagon in Washington
D.C.

- World champion boxer Daniel Geale has returned to Tasmania to defend his title in
what has been billed as the state's biggest ever sporting event.

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