Main stories in today's 3AW news

AAP General News (Australia)
08-19-2008
Main stories in today's 3AW news

MELBOURNE, August 19 AAP - Main stories in today's 3AW news:

- Aussies Brad Kahlefeldt and Courtney Atkinson go for gold in the triathlon today

- Australian women's basketball team compete against Czech Republic in the quarter finals today

- Speeding motorists face fines in the EastLink tunnel from September while six speed
cameras along the new roadway will be switched on within the next few weeks

- Drug and alcohol groups have slammed the federal opposition's decision to vote against
alcopops, saying it will not solve binge drinking

- A woman has pleaded guilty to stealing Patti Newton's handbag at Chadstone shopping
centre in May.

- A sawmill worker has lost his right arm in an industrial accident involving a machine
used to strip the bark from logs at Traralgon this morning.

- All Ords down 77 points to 4966, the Aussie dollar is at 86.72 US

- AFL Hawthorn midfielder Luke Hodge has accepted a one-match ban for striking.

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