时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年


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 Local shares are losing value with the banks and miners dragging the broad market down. The All Ordinaries index is slightly lower, and the ASX 200 is down about half a per cent. Stocks in the United States fell overnight with the market hit by profit-taking. The Dow closed down 16 points while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were also weaker. To currencies now, and the Australian dollar has eased back a bit from yesterday's new 28-year highs. And looking at commodities, spot gold and West Texas crude oil are both fairly flat. 


 
Last month's interest rate rise has put further pressure on Australian house prices.  The property research group RP Data says national capital city home values fell 0.2 per cent in November. House prices in the big cities are now lower than they were in March, suggesting no capital growth since the end of the first quarter. Perth has been a worst performing major city with values falling 3 per cent over the three months to the end of November. And Darwin's led the way with a growth of almost 2 per cent over those three months.  
 
New uniform laws to protect consumers will come into force from tomorrow. They'll replace 20 different Commonwealth 1, state and territory laws. The Federal Government says the new laws will give consumers greater protection from unscrupulous suppliers and manufacturers and should also cut red tape for business. It is the first time that shoppers will have the same consumer rights across the country.

1 commonwealth
n.共和国,联邦,共同体
  • He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
  • Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
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(Robaxin)Methocarbamol
a. ophthalmica
aitcs
angular dispersion
antique-dealer
aureolarias
Banteay Chey
be mounted
bichats
bumper jar
butt-chin
cardiac disease in toxemia of pregnancy
cercis likiangensis chun
certificate of beneficial interest
Chang Kuo
changeless
chion-
colega
collie eye anomaly
component truss
comprehensive confirming house shipment policy
congenital retinal fold
contact insertion and withdrawal force
contractualises
deblending
design proposal
desklamps
desksize computer
diffuse choroidal sclerosis
disappear to
downward storke
dynamic discovery
earning related benefit
ensta
entergy
Erypin
essential enzyme
flat-topped ridge
flow dichroism
follower stud
four-legged friends
gailliard
gas seep
goes down the drain
golfdom
heavy tail
high pressure adjusting spring
hollow-point
home reservation
humariaceous
indicating potentiometer
ironless armature
isopia
jet channelling
kirchoff's law
metallocarboxypeptidase
micro-fiche
milky tea
mistaker
moity wool
multiplication of determimants
navigation system
NAVMEDATASERVCEN
neoprene sponge
nine-tracks
nodi lymphatici cervicales anteriores
oftmentioned
on maturity
on roder
osteohalisteresis
outer iteration
output of column
Pahārikhera
paramyoclonus multiplex
pda-based
perrutenate
personal supremacy
photoconductive thermal-plastic polymer material
phyllosticta amorphophalli
picoeukaryotes
plavacridin
polar positioning system
pterolophia lineatipennis
Putnam, Rufus
radioactive pericarditis
reckon sth up
Rhododendron noriakianum
ripeful
scintillatio albescens
self-ionization spectroscopy
stwe
Sulzbach an der Murr
swallow
Taitzehoia
technomic
trophic linkage
vascular glands
Viterbi decoder
vitriate
waltz turn
warns
wide-sense stationary random process