VIC:Main stories on 1200 3AW news

AAP General News (Australia)
08-05-2010
VIC:Main stories on 1200 3AW news

MELBOURNE, Aug 5 AAP - Main stories in Thursday's 1200 3AW news:

- A coroner has found an elderly couple were killed in an explosion on a boat which
was known by the company which sold it to be a danger.

- The Labor Party's attempts to refocus the election debate on the economy have again
be overshadowed by former prime minister Kevin Rudd.

- Prime Minister Julia Gillard is campaigning in Queensland.

- Australia's first commercially viable fully electric cars have arrived in Victoria.

- Forty US billionaires have pledged to give half of their wealth away to charity.

- Sport: AFL Demons have announced they are debt free and have money in the bank.

- Essendon to clash with Carlton on Friday night at the MCG.

- Lord Mayor Robert Doyle is considering a facelift for St Kilda Road.

- Two men are being questioned after their friend was electrocuted in Hastings on Thursday
morning.

- Finance: Australian dollar trading at 91.68 US cents.

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