Main stories in Wednesday's AM program

AAP General News (Australia)
12-14-2011
Main stories in Wednesday's AM program

SYDNEY, Dec 14 AAP - Main stories in Wednesday's AM program:

- Stevedoring company POAGS has locked out its workers and used a helicopter to fly
in non-union labour to Port Kembla in NSW over an interstate industrial dispute.

- The federal Treasury secretary has warned the country's coffers will suffer from
weak revenue for the next decade, as Europe heads towards a recession in 2012.

- The US Federal Reserve has pointed to Europe as a big risk to its economy, saying
it has the potential to unravel America's moderate recovery.

- Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey says he's worried the Treasury secretary
is preparing the ground for the government to introduce new taxes.

- A shooting and grenade attack in a crowded market area in the Belgian city of Liege
has left at least three people dead and more than 75 injured.

- There's been no breakthrough in Papua New Guinea's political impasse, following chaotic
scenes around Government House in response to the Supreme Court's decision to reinstate
Sir Michael Somare as prime minister.

- An ABC investigation has confirmed that more than 35 violent deaths in Australia
have been linked to men who attended the same notorious Tamworth boys home when they were
teenagers.

- One of Australia's most senior judges, Justice Peter McClellan, says the jury should
no longer be used in complex criminal trials.

- A leading ecologist has described the Victorian government's new plan for the timber
industry as "medieval".

- Scientists say they've narrowed the search for the elusive Higgs boson, or God particle,
which can help explain why particles have mass.

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