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Australia is a unique country. It's the world's largest island, but it's also the world's smallest continent. In fact, Australia is the only country that is also a continent. It's about the size of th
[00:00.00]MODULE 7 Australia [00:02.46]模块七 澳大利亚 [00:04.93]Unit 1I'm looking forthe photos that you tookin Australia. [00:07.55]第一单元我在找你在澳大利亚拍的照片 [00:10.16]Listening and vocabulary2 Listen and check your
By Phil Mercer Sydney, Australia 01 October 2007 Tourism officials in Australia say the number of visitors from Arab Gulf nations is increasing. Airlines are scheduling more flights between the Middle East and Australia to accommodate the rising popu
By Phil Mercer Sydney 04 October 2007 Australia has announced a temporary freeze on the settlement of refugees from Africa, including those from Sudan's Darfur region. Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews says the refugees had trouble integrating into
By Phil Mercer Sydney 10 October 2007 Australia has taken its battle against Japanese whaling in the Antarctic online with a new YouTube campaign. Australia has been a fierce critic of Japan's plans to hunt 50 humpback whales in the Antarctic in the
By Phil Mercer Sydney 19 May 2008 Australia will increase its annual migration intake to 300,000 people a year - the biggest rise since the end of World War II. The increase in the annual quota is intended to address the country's chronic skills shor
A unique program to capture carbon at coal power stations has been unveiled in Australia. Operators of a demonstration plant say it is the first of its type in the world and involves burning coal in oxygen rather than air, which reduces carbon dioxi
A boatload of suspected asylum seekers intercepted off Australia's northern coast is being taken to an island center for processing. After a spate of people smuggling incidents, the government has outlined plans to intensify surveillance of its nort
The Australian government is investigating reports that the Taliban killed up to 20 Afghans who were denied asylum in Australia and sent back to Afghanistan. They allegedly were among 400 asylum seekers denied entry into Australia by the former gove
The tiny northern corroboree frog of Australia is only just hanging on. Populations of both the northern and southern corroboree frogs have declined catastrophically in the wild over the last two decades. The primary culprit is the deadly chytrid fun
By Barry Kalb Hong Kong 23 February 2008 The United States and Australia have reaffirmed their alliance in the first high-level meeting between the two countries since the installation of the new Kevin Rudd government in December. U.S. Defense Secret
Australia's top climate adviser has unveiled the likely costs of an emissions trading program. Professor Ross Garnaut has proposed cautious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and recommends that Australia's total emissions should to be c
By Phil Mercer Sydney 02 April 2008 Australia's first large underground carbon storage facility has opened in the southern state of Victoria. The geo-sequestration plant will capture carbon dioxide from a power station and store it two kilometers ben
By Phil Mercer Sydney 17 December 2007 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned that NATO's anti-Taliban tactics in Afghanistan are not working. The newly elected leader said it is critical that security in the troubled country be stabilized.
By Phil Mercer Sydney 19 December 2007 Australia says it intends to send planes and a customs ship to monitor Japanese whalers off Antarctica. The government says the surveillance mission will collect video and other evidence that could be used in an
By Phil Mercer Sydney 11 March 2008 Australia has ratified its acceptance of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The new government elected last year made signing the emissions-limiting accord its first act. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. The Ky
By Phil Mercer Sydney 02 January 2008 There is cautious hope that Australia's long drought is about to break. The La Nina weather pattern has drenched parts of the arid continent in recent months. Sydney had its wettest November in more than a decad
Australia has opened a new National Center for Bio-Security to build its defenses against infectious diseases and biological weapons. Medical experts say it will help protect the country from threats such as SARS and bird flu as well as attacks by t
By Phil Mercer Darwin, Australia 13 February 2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made a historic apology to the country's Aboriginal people for past mistreatment. Mr. Rudd said past policies of assimilation under which indigenous children w
By Phil Mercer Sydney 10 October 2007 Australian farmers are eager to see progress in World Trade Organization talks, they think the WTO is the best way to foster greater prosperity and open up overseas markets. Economists say that international trad