Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News

AAP General News (Australia)
08-29-2006
Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News

SYDNEY, Aug 29 AAP - Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News:

- The founder and former leader of the Australian Democrats, Don Chipp, dies in Melbourne
after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.

- The Deputy Leader of the Democrats Andrew Bartlett says Don Chipp has left a huge legacy.

- The former Democrats Senator Vicky Bourne pays tribute to the man she calls the heart
and soul of the party.

- After having his terror-related conviction overturned earlier this month, Victorian
man Jack Thomas spends the night under a curfew.

- Jack Thomas' brother Les tells the ABC's Lateline program that the control order
is a political stunt.

- The UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says all parties to the Israeli-Lebanon war will
have to make painful compromises to avoid a return to hostilities.

- The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announces a low-level inquiry into the Lebanon
war, but he rejects demands for an inquiry by an independent state commission with the
power to dismiss people.

- Today's return to parliament by MPs after a nearly three-month break will be cut
short by strike action from parliamentary staff.

- With parliamentary staff planning to strike this afternoon the head of the Public
Service Association says the parliament has been cut to the bone and can't take any more
job reductions.

- A new survey says small business owners in NSW have lower levels of confidence in
the economy than business owners in other states.

- In rugby league, the Sydney Roosters says there is no truth to suggestion former
Warriors coach Daniel Anderson is set to replace Ricky Stuart.

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