AAP General News (Australia)
08-21-2007
Main stories in ABC's World Today
SYDNEY, Aug 21 AAP - Main stories in ABC's World Today:
* With an election likely to be called within weeks, the prime minister insists he
is not panicked by yet another bad opinion poll for the government. The latest Newspoll
not only has Labor ahead by ten points, it shows that more voters are growing sceptical
about the coalition's ability to run the economy.
* The owner of the New York strip club the federal opposition visited four years ago,
Elliot Osher, says he greeted the group and took them into the club's VIP lounge. He says
when the man, he now knows to be Kevin Rudd, realised the sort of club he was in he wanted
to leave and that the men did so without even finishing the beers they ordered.
* An uneasy calm appears to be settling over global sharemarkets. The US Federal Reserve's
weekend decision to cut its lending rates to banks further stabilised Wall Street and
European markets overnight.
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