Main stories in today's AM program

AAP General News (Australia)
04-21-2009
Main stories in today's AM program

SYDNEY, April 21 AAP - Main stories in today's AM program:

* Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull's plan to reintroduce Temporary Protection
Visas (TPV) has stirred up some old resentment in his party.

* Former Liberal MP Bruce Baird says party moderates will be angered by the move.

* Indonesian immigration officials say 70 Afghan arrested asylum seekers will be deported.

Some say they would rather die than return home.

* International aid groups say some of the dire predictions about climate change are
already coming true for some of the world's poorest people.

* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has caused an uproar a United Nations anti-racism
conference, which led to a walk out on the opening day.

* Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan is denying suggestions the government is using the threat
of a recession to divert attention from asylum seekers.

* A 36-year-old Victorian woman has died walking the Kokoda Track.

* As the royal commission into Victoria's bushfires gets underway, there are calls
for the state government to renew its backburning program.

* Tasmania's best known devil Cedric has almost fully recovered from an operation to
remove face tumours that threaten the future of his species.

* There are reports from Fiji that documents dating back to the 2006 military coup
are being destroyed.

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