澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-05-11

In business, a multi-billion-dollar offshore LNG facility has been given the green light off the WA coast. The Prelude, floating LNG plant has been developed by Royal Dutch Shell. It will be the first time that onshore processing techniques are used

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-05-12

In other news today, violence has erupted in Syria's third largest city, Homs. Syria's army has been shelling the city and there've(口误) been reports of gunfire. At least nine people are thought to have been killed. Dozens more have been wounded.

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-05-17

The head of the International Monetary Fund remains in custody after facing court in New York for allegedly sexually assaulting a hotel maid. The judge ruled that Dominique Strauss-Kahn was a flight risk despite his offer to post $1 million bail. Mr

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-05-18

The Queen has paid tribute to Irish nationalists who died fighting for independence from Britain. Dressed in emerald green, Queen Elizabeth laid a wreath at Dublins Garden of Remembrance. She is the first British monarch to visit the Irish Republic a

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-22

It will be another challenging day for the airlines and their passengers as they try to get their planes back in the air. Adelaide flights will resume shortly with Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra following as today progresses. But its likely to take d

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-05-14

The Transport Workers Union has lost acourt battle with Qantas over industrial action by baggage handlers two years ago. The stop work meeting in March 2009 caused major delays at airports around Australia.The Federal Court has found that TWU and its

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-14

New Zealand's government says yesterday's powerful aftershocks in Christchurch won't set back the city's recovery. About a dozen more aftershocks shook Christchurch overnight. About 20,000 homes are still without power and water has been restored to

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-17

The Federal Governments asylum-seeker deal with Malaysia will be challenged in the High Court. Refugee advocates have lodged papers on behalf of a Kurdish woman and her son who arrived by boat after the deal was announced. The womans husband has alre

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-18

Woodside has lost $1.5 billion in value after announcing a cost blowout on one of its LNG projects. The company has revealed its Pluto project in WA's northwest is over budget by almost $1 billion. It was due to start production in December, but that

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-16

Nearly 2,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, and hundreds more are now isolated by floodwaters on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. The Manning River east of Taree has peaked higher than expected overnight. And the SES says that sligh

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-19

Low cloud and showers have been pushed into the southeast by strengthening northwesterly winds. And we have also got a thick band of cloud approaching southern south Australia along a strong cold front. Apart from the southeast, clear skies over most

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-01

Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic is now at The Hague where hell face war crime charges. Mladic was whisked from a Belgrade court and onto a plane after his appeal against extradition was rejected. Hes accused of masterminding the massacre

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-02

There are calls from both sides of politics now for tougher action against Syria. The Government has increased its sanctions against the regime, and Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd is now calling on the UN to bring Syria's president before the Internatio

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-05

First to the satellite image. Further massive cloud across Western Australia is in a deepening trough that's causing rain from the state's northwest all the way down towards the southeast. We'll see some heavy rain along the Pilbara coast. Cloud is a

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-06

Former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn has faced court in New York and hes pleaded not guilty to sex assault charges. Strauss-Kahn was heckled by a group of hotel workers as he arrived at the court. They were chanting s

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-07

A 23-year-old Australian soldier has been killed in Afghanistan's Helmand province. The Chief of the Defence Force Angus Houston confirmed the death this morning. He says the combat engineer who was shot by insurgents was a superb young man. It's the

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-08

(The) Federal Government is suspending all live cattle exports to Indonesia. Now the Government had already slapped a ban on 12 Indonesian abattoirs after a Four Corners report revealed horrific examples of torture and cruelty. The Government has bee

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-09

The future of up to 20,000 head of cattle in transit and in holding yards remains uncertain after yesterday's decision to ban live exports. Federal Government backbenchers are also calling for a review into live exports to the Middle East. Meanwhile,

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-13

Virgin will resume limited services from Melbourne, Tasmania and New Zealand in about half an hours time with Qantas is expected to recommence its flights from 10:00 this morning. Jetstar also hopes to get some of its planes back in the air this morn

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-15

Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has been caught out asking a tobacco company for political donations six years ago. The ABC has obtained letters that Ms Roxon wrote to Philip Morris executives back in 2005, inviting them to a $1,500-a-table fund