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 Education Minister Christopher Pyne has denied he offered to help James Ashby in his sexual harassment1 claim against former Speaker Peter Slipper2. Mr. Ashby has told 60 Minites that Mr. Pyne offered to find him a lawyer and assured him a job and warned him not to go public about the offer. 

 
He said to me, you are a braver man than I am, as we exited, and said, if you discuss or tell anyone we've had this discussion, I'll be forced to come out publicly and call you a pathological liar3. 
 
Mr. Ashby speaking at 60 Minutes last night.
 
An elderly Australian woman has died and 14 other Australians have been injured in a bus crash in Kenya. The tour bus was on its way to a popular game reserve, when a tyre burst, and it plunged4 down a steep embankment. Ten Australians remain in hospital. 
 
US President Barack Obama will outline his strategy later this week to defeat Islamic State militants5. US has now extended airstrikes into western Iraq while Australia has completed its third delivery of military supplies to the Kurds in the country's north. 
 
A new study has revealed parents who let their children try alcohol may actually be encouraging them to take up drinking. The survey of nearly 2,000 families has found children given alcohol in their early teens are three times more likely to be drinking full serves by the time they are sixteen.

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1 harassment weNxI     
n.骚扰，扰乱，烦恼，烦乱
参考例句：
  • She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
  • The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。
2 slipper px9w0     
n.拖鞋
参考例句：
  • I rescued the remains of my slipper from the dog.我从那狗的口中夺回了我拖鞋的残留部分。
  • The puppy chewed a hole in the slipper.小狗在拖鞋上啃了一个洞。
3 liar V1ixD     
n.说谎的人
参考例句：
  • I know you for a thief and a liar!我算认识你了，一个又偷又骗的家伙！
  • She was wrongly labelled a liar.她被错误地扣上说谎者的帽子。
4 plunged 06a599a54b33c9d941718dccc7739582     
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 )；暴跌；骤降；突降
参考例句：
  • The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
  • She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳，从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。
5 militants 3fa50c1e4338320d8495907fdc5bdbaf     
激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

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