The main stories on today's 1700 ABC 702 news

AAP General News (Australia)
08-27-2010
The main stories on today's 1700 ABC 702 news

SYDNEY, Aug 27 AAP - Main stories in today's 1700 ABC 702 news:

- Tony Abbott agrees to submit coalition election costings to Treasury. He's satisfied
there'll be no political interference.

- The Coalition looks certain to take 73 seats - including Brisbane.

- Independent Andrew Wilkie is to push for new laws to protect whistleblowers.

- Drivers are to receive fines from mobile speed cameras from tomorrow.

- Premier Kristina Keneally is aware the government will have to help councils who
face reduced levies from property developers with transitional arrangements.

- A prosecutor has described a child sex case against David Whitby as one of the most
complex ever.

- A former Anglicare employee has been sentenced to four years in jail for fraud.

- A military service has been held for two soldiers killed in Afghanistan last week.

- Pakistan orders the evacuation of a town in the country's south after the Indus River
breaks its banks.

- Gerry Harvey says it's too early to say how federal election uncertainty has affected
Harvey Norman.

- FINANCE: The All Ords is up 15 points, the ASX 200 up 14 points and the dollar buying
88.69 US cents.

- SPORT

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