NSW:Main stories in Thursday's 0745 ABC news

AAP General News (Australia)
12-02-2010
NSW:Main stories in Thursday's 0745 ABC news

SYDNEY, Dec 2 AAP - Main stories in Thursday's 0745 ABC news:

- Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has announced he will not head to Zurich to
support his country's World Cup bid, citing unscrupulous competition.

- The federal sports minister Mark Arbib says it is hard to know which way the bidding
will go at a FIFA conference in Switzerland to determine which countries will host the
2018 and 2022 World Cups.

- Local emergency services in Coonamble in the state's central west are preparing to
help up to 1000 residents leave their homes as the Castlereagh River rises.

- NSW police officers are set to release an election wishlist, calling for hundreds
of millions of dollars in extra spending.

- The City of Sydney is set to move away from coal-fired power plants and rely on gas-driven
power plants by 2030.

- North Carolina police are refusing to comment on rumours 10-year-old Australian girl
Zahra Baker was raped before she was murdered and dismembered.

- New Zealand is expected to pause for two minutes as the nation remembers the 29 miners
killed in the country's worst mining disaster in almost a century.

- The last question time for the NSW parliamentary year will be held on Thursday.

- The tax office has flagged a crackdown on businesses involved in the federal government's
economic stimulus programs.

- Credit unions are pressuring the federal government to reopen its wholesale funding
guarantees for smaller lenders.

- Fast bowler Mitchell Johnson is expected to be dropped from Australia's side when
the team for the second Ashes test is announced.

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