澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-06-21

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The ABC understands no more families will be sent there until a permanent facility is built.

 

Tony Abbott will today release the Coalition's vision for developing Northern Australia. The document suggests turning the Top End into a food bowl, increasing the number of tourists to the region and developing an energy export industry. It also flags using tax incentives² to boost the population in northern cities.

 

New South Wales police admit that one of its officers destroyed evidence relating to child sex abuse inquiries³ by the Catholic Church. Inspector⁴ Beth Cullen shredded⁵ documents detailing internal investigations⁶ by the church between 1998 and 2003.The former New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions⁷ Nicholas Cowdery QC says the decision to destroy the records is extraordinary.

 

Signs that the United States is considering ending its stimulus⁸ measures have sent shockwaves wide through global markets. They've had their biggest one day fall in 19 months. European markets fell around three percent. Wall Street is down two and a half. The Aussie dollar is now below 92 US cents.

 

And a man in his twenties has died after collapsing⁹ at Sydney's Villawood immigration detention¹⁰ centre late yesterday. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful. Police say they're not treating the death as suspicious.

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