澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-11-03

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A French magazine that published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad has been petrol-bombed. The satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo also announced the Prophet would be guest editor of a special edition. The French prime minister has condemned⁶ the attack.

 

The Prime Minister Julia Gillard has arrived in Cannes for a meeting of the G20. Europe's debt crisis will of course dominate those talks. The Prime Minister is urging European leaders to get moving and finalise the details of their plan to solve the crisis. She says Australia would be willing to contribute more money to the International Monetary⁷ Fund to help prop⁵ up Europe's ailing⁸ economies.

 

The engineers union says the Holden Commodore may no longer be designed in Australia. It says Holden is close to deciding to send its engineering operations for the Commodore offshore⁹. It says such a decision would cost up to 350 jobs at the company's Melbourne plant.

 

And the Greens will unveil plans today to amend¹⁰ the law to make it harder for employers to lock out their workforce¹¹. They say they want to prevent a repeat of the Qantas decision on Saturday that grounded the airline's planes. Greens MP Adam Bandt says the amendment¹² would give Fair Work Australia the power to prevent a company announcing a lockout without any notice.

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