澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-13

Hello, Nick Dole with the National Weather. Lets take a look at the satellite picture first. And patchy low cloud across the southeast trapped under a high is bringing the odd shower to South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. A ridge of high pressure

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-05-26

The Thai governments cracking down on those that it blames for causing the recent unrest in Bangkok. A Thai court has approved an arrest warrant for ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra, accusing him of inciting last week's protests. His lawyer Robert Amster

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-05-27

Energy giant BP has begun a complex operation to plug its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. After a string of failed attempts to stop the leak, the company is now said it's going to force-feed the broken pipe with heavy drilling, mud and cement

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-05-30

Hello, Nick Lucchinelli with the National Weather. Thick cloud is swarming over the southeast of the country around an intensifying low, generating heavy rain. Scattered cloud over western Victoria and South Australia is bringing showers. Mostly clea

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-05-31

In the US, it's feared it could be more than two months before oil stops leaking from a well in the Gulf of Mexico. BP's latest attempt to plug the leak failed. Twenty million gallons have so far spewed into the Gulf in the worst oil disaster in US h

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-16

A report into Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday massacre has found the killing of 13 Catholic protesters by British soldiers was unjustified. British Prime Minister David Cameron has apologized for the deaths as he handed down the findings. It found t

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-02

Australian system of detaining and processing asylum seekers offshore is being challenged in the High Court. Four new challenges to the policy have been filed. Lawyers for at least 13 Afghani and Sri Lankan asylum seekers have already managed to dela

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-03

The second Australian was wounded during Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Fairfax photographer Kate Geraghty said she was attacked with a stun gun and suffered burns and bruising. Israel is deporting nearly 700 people arrested during the r

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-07

A poll shows that the Rudd Government would lose in an election if it was held today. The Nelson poll conducted for Fairfax, shows the Coalition leads Labor on a two-party preferred basis by 53% to 47%. That's an increase of three percentage points f

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-08

More than 80 asylum seekers have spent their first night at a mining camp in the remote Western Australian town of Leonora. The families from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Iran were flown to the town yesterday from the overcrowd detention centre at Chri

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-05-28

Federal Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor has accused West Australian Government of softening its stance on people smugglers. The State's Attorney-General Christian Porter has announced that WA will no longer house people smugglers in its prison

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-05-29

The Federal Government has been accused of misusing taxpayer money to fund its mining super profits tax campaign. The Government exempted itself from its own guidelines to run the ad blitz to counter what it says is misleading information from the mi

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-05

A positive turn in the US jobs market has failed to lift hopes of an economic recovery with 431,000 new jobs recorded in May. The unemployment rate dropped from 9.7 percent to 9.9 percent last month on the back of public sector hiring for an upcoming

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-18

US Congress has accused BP of paying no attention to the tremendous risks of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. At a congressional hearing into Americas worst oil spill, BP chief executive Tony Hayward was accused of cutting corners to save money. In Eu

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-04

Close to 1.4 million workers are expected to benefit from a boost to the minimum wage. The Fair Pay Commission's awarded a $26-a-week increase, taking the minimum wage to 570 dollars. Employers had argued the increase should be limited to $ 12.50. Th

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-01

Documents show the Federal Government was planning ads promoting its super profits tax before the Henry review was publicly released. The review recommended the mining tax. Letters between Federal MPs show the Government expected the tax to affect sh

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-17

Goldman Sachs will pay a $600 million fine to settle a fraud case. The US financial regulator imposed the penalty on the bank for misleading investors about a hedge fund that was destined to fail. The Securities and Exchange Commission says the penal

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-18

The satellite image shows a cloud band stretching across southern Australia. A cold front is producing some scattered showers. Cloud extending through WA in a trough is generating rain across the northwest. There will be some isolated showers along Q

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-25

Patchy low cloud over the southeast trapped under a high is causing a few showers. Scattered cloud over coastal Queensland in onshore winds is also bringing showers. And wet weather will continue in Queensland and New South Wales tomorrow, brought on

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-08-07

The local share market has closed flat on the back of weakness in financial stocks, with investors cautious ahead of key US jobs data due out tonight. The All Ordinaries edged up just one point and the ASX 200 finished unchanged. The big four banks a