澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-11-28

 Leading the News this morning.The shock and grief of the death of batman Phillip Hughes has echoed around the cricketing world.Flags are flying at half masts at Lords .The current round of Sheffield shield games have been abandoned and a question mark now hangs over next week's first test between australia and India.Phillip would like us to keep playing cricket and I don't know how soon that's going to happen. Already grade cricket in Sydney's off this weekend, the whole round. Pakistan and England - New Zealand have stopped playing their game and then we've got a Test match next week - we don't know what's going to happen with that.

 

Jim is there, Queensland's premier¹ Campbell Newman has called in the army to help clean up after a massive storm hit the state's southeast late yesterday.Winds of up to 140 kilometres an hours and hale stones as big as golf balls caused widespread damage and chaos² across Brisbane.Tens of thousands of people were left without power and the SES received more than a thousand calls for help.

 

Victorians head to the polls tomorrow and election eve Galaxy³ poll shows Labour still holds a 52 to 48 percent lead over the coalition⁴ in the two party preferred vote.if the Coalition does lose power,It will be the state's first one term government in 60 years.

 

A report card on the federal government's handling the indigenous⁵ affairs has found the coalition's approach is causing high stress and uncertainty⁶.Social justice commmioner Mick Gooda partly blames deep budget cuts and changes to the way funding is provided.

1 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

2 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

3 galaxy   

n.星系；银河系；一群(杰出或著名的人物)

参考例句：

• The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
• The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。

4 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

5 indigenous   

adj.土产的，土生土长的，本地的

参考例句：

• Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
• Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。

6 uncertainty   

n.易变，靠不住，不确知，不确定的事物

参考例句：

• Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
• After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。