Main stories in today's 1300 2UE News

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-2007
Main stories in today's 1300 2UE News

SYDNEY, Aug 23 AAP - Main stories in today's 1300 2UE News:

- Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has flagged the commonwealth takeover of all public
hospitals if Labor wins the election.

- Unions say they aren't worried about State Transit investiagting a wave of illness
that has struck down Sydney bus drivers.

- Organisers of World Youth Day are about to hold an emergency meeting with Randwick
Race Course officials in a bid to make a peace deal.

- A Senate candidate for the upcoming federal election has compared Muslim immigration
to the bird flu.

- The Howard government says a new independent study has vindicated its workplace laws.

- In rugby league, Leichhardt Oval is officially sold out for Sunday's clash between
the Wests Tigers and South Sydney.

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