Main stories in today's 1200 ABC news

AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-2009
Main stories in today's 1200 ABC news

SYDNEY, Aug 24 AAP - Main stories in today's 1200 ABC news:

- A corruption inquiry has heard that security guards at Sydney's Holsworthy army base
were accredited after being given the answers to tests.

- An oil spill in the Timor Sea is shaping up as one of the nation's worst.

- The federal government is stripping the ASX of some of its regulatory powers and
giving them to ASIC.

- Bus drivers in Blacktown are back on the road after a snap strike which left thousands
of school students and commuters stranded.

- Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Julia Gillard says she understands that
some students are unhappy with the proposed overhaul of the Youth Allowance scheme.

- Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting says the wrong side was picked for the deciding
Ashes Test against England.

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