澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-05-24

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The Duchess of York has been caught on camera offering to sell access to her husband Prince Andrew. The News of the World says Sarah Ferguson was filmed by one of its reporters posing as a businessman. And it appears that she accepts 40,000 US dollars in cash. The paper says, Prince Andrew knew nothing about the deal with more than half a million pounds.

A witness at the centre of a corruption¹ investigation² has alleged³ that a Reserve Bank subsidiary was willing to supply prostitutes and pay bribes⁵ to win banknote supply contracts. The allegation surfaced in the special investigation by Four Corners and The Age newspaper. It's found that a middleman hired by Securency International said he intended to bribe⁴ a central bank governor from an Asian country.

A report on Australia's education system says teachers want an overhaul⁶ of the performance evaluation⁷ process. The Grattan Institute report says most teachers surveyed believed that the existing evaluation process doesn't improve teaching in Australian schools.

And lawyers for the Bushfires Royal Commission will this week attack the Victorian Government over its handling of the Black Saturday fires. A leaked lawyers’ submission⁸ accuses the Government of “substantial policy failure” that placed “at least some of those who died at great risk”.

(It’s) found that at least 19 people have been killed and more than 70 injured when a train derailed in a mountainous area in eastern China. State media says a landslide⁹ damaged the tracks causing several carriages to derail and overturn in Jiangxi province.