澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-12-24

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America's National Rifle Association has defended its call for armed guards to be stationed at schools. The gun lobby is rejecting calls for gun reform in the wake of a school shooting that killed 26 people, 20 of them young children. 

 

 

 

Back home, Catholic Cardinal⁴ George Pell has used his Christmas message to apologize to those who've been sexually abused by fellow Christians⁵. Cardinal Pell says he's shocked and ashamed by the abuse suffered at the hands of priests and teachers.

 

 

 

More firefighters will be brought in this morning to help battle a bushfire burning in the southeast of South Australia. The blaze is now within containment⁶ lines after earlier burning out of control. It's burnt out more than 5,000 hectares of scrub and grassland⁷ since midday yesterday. And in Victoria, fire authorities say a 300-hectares-grass fire, which was threatening the town of Langkoop in the state's west , is under control.

 

 

 

Shoppers will be out in force across the country today to get in their last-minute Christmas shopping. Some shopping centres have been open all night to cash in on the final pre-Christmas buying spree. The Australian Retailers⁸ Association is predicting consumers will spend more than 40 billion dollars in the lead-up to Christmas.

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