TV3 NEWS. 09/10/2007

News, sport and weather.
Main stories:

An Australian soldier and a second wounded by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. This is Australia's first fatal casualty since troop commitment to Afghanistan and Iraq began.
Angus Houston (Australian Air Chief Marshall); Neil James (Australian Defence Association); John Howard (Australian Prime Minister).

The National Party is demanding answers from the Prime Minister over the police investigation into now Independent MP Taito Phillip Field.
John Key (National Party Leader); Helen Clark (Prime Minister); Taito Phillip Field (Independent MP).