The main stories on 0200 2GB News

AAP General News (Australia)
12-23-2010
The main stories on 0200 2GB News

SYDNEY, Dec 23 AAP - Main stories in today's 0200 2GB News:



- 17 RAN sailors have reportedly been identified as being part of a drug trafficking
ring operating at Sydney's Garden Island naval base.

- Police are hunting two men over four shootings in five days at Thornleigh and Mt
Colah in Sydney's north.

- State MPs are promising to go ahead with an embarrassing inquiry into the NSW power
sell-off, despite parliament being prorogued.

- The boss of British operator BAA won't be taking his bonus this year because of the
European travel chaos.

- Opposition leader Tony Abbott says he'll wait until the time is right before deciding
whether he can seize power from the minority government.

- Immigration officials are organising a reunion between a boy, orphaned by the Christmas
Island boat tragedy, and his two aunts.

- Briefly: the teenage girl at the centre of the AFL nude photo scandal says she'll
release more images today; a 3.5 earthquake has shaken England.

- FINANCE: Dow Jones; Aussie dollar.

- SPORT: NFL star Greg Inglis will continue talks with the AFL; Peter Siddle is accusing
England of being sore losers; the AFL has cleared Brendan Fevola of improper behaviour;
A-League soccer; Sydney-Hobart yacht race; Roger Federer has beaten Rafael Nadal in the
first of two exhibition matches in Zurich.

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