澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-03-08

Good morning. A 23-year-old man will face court tomorrow, charged over the death of a three-year-old Indian boy Gurshan Singh. The toddler was found dead on the side of the road near Melbourne Airport on Thursday night. Gursewak Dhillon has been char

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-01-28

The Federal Governments controversial new My School website has crashed just hours after its launch this morning. Users are reporting problems logging onto the site which lists student data comparing literacy and numeracy rates in almost 10,000 schoo

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-02-28

Hello, Kirsty Heenan with the National Weather. Thick cloud over the tropics and central interior is bringing heavy rain and storms. Cloud spreading over South Australia and New South Wales is causing thundery showers. While a monsoonal low in centra

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-03-03

Water levels have started to drop in the Queensland towns of Charleville and Roma. But authorities are warning the flood threat is far from over. Hundreds of people had to spend the night in an evacuation center. The towns have been declared disaster

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-03-04

The Federal Government hasn't ruled out tax hikes to fund a 50-billion-dollar overhaul of the health system. Kevin Rudd is vowing to fix the hospital system with the Commonwealth taking over funding of all primary healthcare and 60 per cent of hospit

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-03-02

A small plane carrying aid to the quake-hit Chilean city of Concepcion has crashed killing six people. Meanwhile the Australian government will donate a million dollars towards the emergency response to the earthquake and tsunami. At least 720 people

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-03-05

Victorian police say theyll do everything they can to find out what happened to a three-year-old Indian boy whose body was found in Melbourne last night. Three-year-old Gurshan Singh disappeared from a relative's home in Lalor yesterday. His body was

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-02-15

Five Sydney men who planned a violent jihad on Australia will be sentenced today. In October last year, a jury found them guilty of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism. The men have been in custody since their homes were raided in 2005. They face

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-02-16

Investigation is underway into security at schools after the stabbing murder of a 12-year-old boy. Brisbane schoolboy Elliott Fletcher died yesterday after he was stabbed during a fight at St. Patricks College in Shorncliffe. A 13-year-old student is

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-02-19

The Prime Minister has left open the possibility of using health policy to trigger a double dissolution election. The Senate is expected to vote for a second time on the Government's plan to means test the private health insurance rebate. If it's rej

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-02-20

Fortescue Metals Group has postponed plans for a key expansion of its iron ore operations in the Pilbara. The miner had planned to double output in the region by 2012. But it says a tough six-month has forced it to delay that plan by over a year. The

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-02-21

Hello, Kathryn Stolarchuk with the National Weather. To the satellite image first, we can see a cloud stream over Queensland carried by humid easterlies is generating showers and storms in the northern tropics. More cloud across the south along a tro

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-02-22

The Federal Government will try again this week to get its changes to private health insurance passed by parliament. It wants to means test the rebate for private health insurance and increase the Medicare surcharge for high-income earners who don't

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-02-23

The Federal Opposition has seized on another report that shows the government was advised to delay starting its insulation program because of the risks it posed. The independent risk register was handed to the government last April, but was only tabl

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-02-27

The corporate regulator has ditched its appeal against two former OneTel directors. ASIC lost a civil case against Jodee Rich and Mark Silbermann in November last year. Now it says an appeal will cost too much time and money. ASIC alleged the pair ga

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-03-01

The death toll from the Chile earthquake has risen to more than 700. Rescue efforts have been hampered by blocked roads and fallen bridges. The UN has promised aid and many countries including Australia have offered assistance. The Chilean government

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-04-08

The head of Victoria's Bushfire Recovery and Reconstruction Authority Christine Nixon has apologized for leaving the incident control centre on Black Saturday. In an open letter published in the Herald Sun, the former Victorian police chief accepted

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-04-09

Tasmania's new Labor minority Governments already facing the threat of a no-confidence motion less than a day after being returned to office. The state's governor yesterday reappointed David Bartlett Premier 19 days after the election delivered a hun

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-04-16

Thousands of passengers have been stranded in northern Europe due to mass flight cancellations. A volcanic eruption in Icelands caused a huge plume of ash and it's feared it could cause plane engines to fail. Britain's closed its entire airspace, and

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-04-29

Australia is poised to become the first country to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes. From 2012, the Federal Government will ban all brand names on cigarette packets. But it will still be compulsory to carry graphic warnings. The Australian ar