Main stories in today's 0745 ABC news

AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-2009
Main stories in today's 0745 ABC news

SYDNEY, Dec 21 AAP - Main stories in today's 0745 ABC news:

- The federal government is expected to set a target by February for Australia's greenhouse
gas emission cuts by 2020.

- Australia Post has accused the union representing mail workers of holding it to ransom
over planned industrial action.

- The union representing academic staff says the University of Western Sydney is trying
to force through a new workplace agreement just before Christmas.

- The tourism sector says it believes the Barangaroo development has the potential
to become a major tourist drawcard.

- The Fred Hollows Foundation says it hasn't lost $2 million from bad investments.

- Extreme weather is continuing to wreak havoc in Europe.

- A massive winter storm in the eastern United States is slowly making its way to the northeast.

- Afghan president Hamid Karzai is urging the Netherlands not to pull its troops out
of Afghanistan.

- Authorities fear protests after a senior Iranian cleric died.

- Police have released images of a handwritten letter they believe could be a breakthrough
into the disappearance OF a woman in Parkes.

- Australia's cricket captain Ricky Ponting says he'll be talking to his team about
on-field discipline ahead of the Boxing Day test.

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