Search efforts will continue today for 11 people missing after a boat sank off the Cocos Islands. One person is dead and 27 others have been rescued. A number of planes have been deployed to search for survivors this morning. The Federal Government w

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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

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The Australian embassy in Bangkok has closed amid increasing violence between anti-government protestors and security forces. Since Thursday, more than 30 people have died in those clashes. Thai authorities have cancelled a curfew to allow women and

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A new opinion poll has bad news for the Prime Minister as MPs return to Canberra for the budget sitting of Parliament. The Fairfax poll shows that after a month of new tax announcement(s), Kevin Rudd's support has dropped 14 points to 45 per cent. Bu

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Police in Brisbane have detained a 36-year-old man wanted over the embezzlement of $16 million from Queensland Health. Joel Barlow was found overnight at an address in the inner Brisbane suburb of New Farm. He's being questioned by police at the mome

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Italys Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will have to stand trial on charges of paying sex for an underage prostitute. Now under Italian law, sex workers must be aged 18. The prime minister is also accused of abusing the power of his office by interve

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One of the soldiers injured in an army track accident remains in a critical condition. Another soldier who'd also been in a critical condition is now thankfully stable. 18 soldiers were thrown from the troop carrier when it rolled on a dirt track at

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The Prime Minister has a big job ahead of her,selling the Carbon Tax. The latest opinion poll suggests it's more unpopular than ever. Two thirds surveyed in the Fair Fax Nilson poll say they don't support the tax. The Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor

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POLL: Most Americans Want Congress To Make Zika Funding A High Priority play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0002:56repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update you

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今天我们要学的词是double standard。Double standard, 双重标准。美国国会众议院议长佩洛西指责共和党人在医疗保健改革的辩论中使用双重标准, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Republicans of having a double

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We will begin tonight Keeping Them Honest on campaigns that love the polls but only when the polls are going their way. Right now, that would be the Romney campaign. New polling in battleground states tonight, the latest CNN/ORC survey in Ohio done e

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By Paula Wolfson White House 10 July 2007 President Bush is urging Congress and the American people to give his Iraq policy time to work - this as a new poll shows opposition to the war remains high. We have more on the story from VOA White House Cor

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Fifty million public school children in America are starting a new school year. The number is a record high. Yet, at the same time, school systems in many areas are facing budget problems. Two bus dr

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By Jim Malone Washington 20 March 2008 Some new public opinion polls suggest a close and volatile presidential race in the months ahead. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone has more from Washington. Some good news for Hillary Clinton in her battle

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Allergist Burt Wolf (left) blames global warming for the increased pollen that aggravates allergy sufferers. It's springtime in the United States, a time for many Americans to enjoy the warmer weather and flowering plants. However, it can also can be

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As U.S. voters prepare to go to the polls in eight weeks to elect a new Congress, two new public opinion surveys contain encouraging news for opposition Republicans and warning signs for Democrats and President Barack Obama. The new opinion surveys p

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Immigration has become a central wedge issue in American politics. And whether you identify as Republican or Democrat is a very good indicator of how you feel about the border wall, also about the travel ban and a host of other im

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 23 November 2007 Polls show that Israelis and Palestinians support next week's international peace conference sponsored by the United States. But as Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, they don't believe it w

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New public opinion polls show that President Barack Obama and both major U.S. political parties face a challenging political climate in the months ahead. Two recent surveys - one by ABC News and The Washington Post newspaper, the other by the Gallup

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Well, the prime minister has endured a month or so of bad headlines, a botched budget according to critics, terrible opinion polls, the Abbot Catarda, farce as some MPs call it, now immune to the over laws reform, so what do you do? And it looked lik

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