英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-05-09
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The Federal government is facing another pre-budget backflash this time over plans to increase the tax on petrol. Next week's budget will include the first hike in the fuel excise1 in more than a decade. Some coalition2 back benchers say it amounts to yet another broken promise.
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating is calling for an extra tax
levy3 to help support people
aged4 between 80 and 100. Mr. Keating has told Lateline here the existing
compulsory5 superannuation system should cover people aged 60 to 80, but more is needed for older Australians.
Well, a
longevity6 levy of a kind, well at 2 or 3% of wages, and you put it in, but the
Commonwealth7 gives, guarantees you a
calibrated8, precise product - income support, age care - all the time when you can't help yourself.
The Federal government's policy of processing
asylum9 seekers
offshore10 is being challenged in the High Court. Lawyers for an Iranian man will argue a decision to send him to Manus Island is illegal. Today's challenge is the latest in a long list of court action against offshore processing.
And pro-Russian
activists11 in eastern Ukraine will go ahead with this weekend's independence vote despite a call by Russia's president Vladimir Putin to
postpone12 it. Ukraine's government says it'll ignore the results while the European Union is warning it will only worsen the crisis.
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