The main stories on today's 1900 ABC TV news

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-2011
The main stories on today's 1900 ABC TV news

The main stories on ABC television's 1900 news:





1. The new state government put transport at the top of it's to-do list, but two days
after a triathlon brought Sydney traffic to a standstill, a peak-hour power spike has
stopped the rail network.





2. Pauline Hanson won't be taking a seat in the New South Wales parliament after all,
after the distribution of preferences dashed the hopes of the former One Nation leader.





3. The prime minister has backed the right of women to die for their country after
some defence analysts criticised the military's move to open frontline combat roles to
women.





4. A Sydney man who stabbed his father and sister to death says he'll forever be sorry
for what he did.





5. The Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody warned that far too many
Aborigines were being locked up, but twenty years on rates of Aboriginal incarceration
have more than doubled, and the Social Justice Commissioner says it's not good enough.





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KEYWORD: MONITOR 1900 ABC NEWS

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