Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News

AAP General News (Australia)
12-28-2005
Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News

SYDNEY, Dec 28 AAP - Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News:

- An Australian man, Tallaal Adrey, has been sentenced to four years in jail in Kuwait
on terrorism charges.

- Adrey's lawyer says the information used to convict his client was extracted by torture.

- Adrey will be deported to Australia after serving his sentence.

- The father of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks says he remains hopeful
that British citizenship will be his son's ticket out, despite an appeal from the British
government.

- The share price of PBL is expected to fall after the death of Kerry Packer.

- NSW Local Government Minister Kerry Hickey says it's too early to say if legislation
banning certain breeds of dogs will be broadened after a fatal dog attack on the state's
south coast.

- Queensland has recorded the highest number of road deaths so far over the Christmas break.

- A man has been shot in the face while driving his campervan near Tweed Heads on the
NSW north coast.

- Two men who spent 11 days on a life raft without supplies are returning to Australia today.

- Greenpeace rejects claims its activists are disregarding the laws of the sea as they
trail a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean.

- NSW RFS Commissioner Phil Koperberg has declared a total fire ban across most of
the state due to an extreme fire danger.

- South African cricket coach Micky Arthur says his side is keen to frustrate Australia
in the opening session on day three of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG.

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