澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-24

The Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard will stand against Mr Rudd in a leadership ballot at nine o'clock in Canberra this morning. Now if she wins, Julia Gillard will become Australia's 27th Prime Minister and its first female leader. Kevin Rudd cal

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-25

And Julia Gillard will hold her first Cabinet meeting later this morning as Prime Minister. She's promised to get straight back to work in her new role. One of her first jobs will be to choose her front bench, and she isn't ruling out her ministerial

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-30

The victims and their families say last night's guilty verdicts in the trial of Jayant Patel have bought closure. The 60-year-old former Bundaberg surgeon has been convicted of three counts of manslaughter and one of grievous bodily harm. Patel will

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-01

The former prime minister John Howard says Julia Gillard must take her full share of responsibility for the Government's problems under Kevin Rudd. Mr Howard says he is unsure if she will make a good PM after her contribution on policy as deputy. He

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-08-05

New South Wales police will today decide just how to continue the search for missing six-year-old Kiesha Abrahams. Last night, nearly 200 people held a candle-lit vigil outside the little girl's home in the Sydney suburb of Hebersham. Detectives inte

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-27

Hello, Nick Dole with the National Weather. Taking a look at the satellite imaging, thick cloud across northeastern New South Wales is bringing some isolated showers and storms to the coast. Patchy cloud over the southeast is pushing some snowfall ac

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-28

The Gillard Government's been rocked by more damaging internal leaks. Last night, Channel Nine reported that Julia Gillard lobbied in Cabinet against the Government's paid parental leave scheme and the size of pension increases. Ms Gillard says she d

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-31

The US President Barack Obama has welcomed the latest economic growth figures, but he says more action is needed to get unemployed Americans back to work. The US economy grew 2.4 percent in the second quarter of this year, but that's a slower pace th

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-08-01

Cloud crossing Victoria and southern New South Wales is producing squally showers and storms. A weak trough extending through the Northern Territory in Queensland may cause rain over the tropics and a high in the west is keeping much of WA and the in

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-30

More than 300,000 extra premises will be connected to the National Broadband Network than originally planned. NBN coverage maps to be unveiled today by the Federal Government show the network will provide fibre optic coverage to 93 per cent of reside

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-08-02

Labor has lost its election-winning lead with the latest Newspoll showing the ALP and the Coalition 50-50. A Nielsen poll published at the weekend showed the Coalition ahead on the two-party preferred basis. Today's poll shows primary support for Ton

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-15

Former prime minister Paul Keating has lashed out at his predecessor Bob Hawke over a biography that he says rewrites history. Mr Keating accuses Mr Hawke of going missing during the 1990s, saying he had to carry the Prime Minister because of Mr Hawk

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-16

The US Senate has passed that landmark bill to overhaul the US financial system. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives early this month. The reform is meant to reduce risk taking by banks and prevent repeats of the 2008 global financial

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-19

The first Newspoll of the federal election campaign shows the ALP has a commanding lead over the Coalition. Today's poll puts Labor 10 points ahead on the two-party preferred basis. Labor's primary vote stays steady at 42 per cent while the Coalition

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-20

And a man wearing red Speedos who confronted Tony Abbott in Melbourne yesterday has been exposed as a Labor campaign officer. Conrad French works in the ALP head office in Victoria with the state secretary and campaign director Nicholas Reece. It had

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-21

And Julia Gillard has launched a fresh attack on Tony Abbott's industrial relations policy. Speaking at a union function in Melbourne overnight, she said Mr Abbott remained a strong advocate for stripping workers of their rights. But Mr Abbott yester

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-22

The Federal Opposition says the Prime Minister must admit the Government's border protection policies are failing. Two boats carrying almost 90 people have arrived at Christmas Island over the past 24 hours. Prime Minister Julia Gillard insists she w

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-23

The Federal Opposition has accused the Government of showing contempt for Australia's national security. The ABC's been told the former prime minister Kevin Rudd sent his 31-year-old chief of staff to stand in for him at National Security Committee m

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-27

The White House says the leaking of confidential military documents poses a threat to national security. Those documents published on whistleblower site Wikileaks suggest Pakistani authorities helped the Taliban plan attacks on NATO. Pakistan's rejec

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-29

The Opposition says the information leaks that have plagued the Government are a sign of chaos at the top. Opposition finance spokesman Andrew Robb has seized on Treasurer Wayne Swan's admission the Government can't stop the leaks. We can't control l