澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-22
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Rescuers in New Zealand are still waiting to enter the Pike River coal mine where 29 men are trapped, including two Australians. It’s been almost three days since a gas explosion rocked the mine near Greymouth on the South Island. Officials say levels of dangerous gases are still too high for rescuers to go in.
Emergency department doctors say hospital overcrowding and bed shortages are costing Australian lives. A study of 76 emergency departments over one day in September found more than a third of all patients were waiting to be transferred to a
ward1. The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine findings will be presented at today’s annual Emergency Medicine conference in Canberra.
After winning a key
concession2 from the Government on the National Broadband Network, the Greens say they’ll now support moves to split Telstra. The Government wanted the power to automatically privatise the NBN, but the Greens say they’ve now done a deal. That means Parliament would have to approve any plans to privatise the network.
The Prime Minister is out of step with the majority of Australians who support gay marriage, according to a new poll. The Nielsen poll shows 57 per cent of people support same sex marriage; thirty-seven per cent were either undecided or opposed to gay marriage.
And the Irish government is expected to make an official bailout request from the EU today. Finance Minister Brian Lenihan did not
specify3 how much Ireland would ask for, but it’s expected to be in the tens of billions of dollars.
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