Main stories in today's 1200 ABC news

AAP General News (Australia)
12-02-2009
Main stories in today's 1200 ABC news

SYDNEY, Dec 2 AAP - Main stories in today's 1200 ABC news:

- The senate has defeated the federal government's emissions trading scheme, despite
two opposition senators crossing the floor.

- Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he wants Nationals Senate Leader Barnaby
Joyce to be on his frontbench and wants Joe Hockey to remain as shadow treasurer.

- Mr Abbott has indicated that he would have taken a tougher approach to getting asylum
seekers off the Oceanic Viking.

- Campaigning in the federal Sydney seat of Bradfield is heating up ahead of Saturday's
by-election.

- It has been revealed that the NSW government spent more than $40 million paying overtime
wages to staff from the Department of Corrective Services last financial year.

- Former West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara says there needs to be a radical overhaul
of the sport in the Caribbean.

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