澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-10-03

 The Prime Minister has intervened to reverse controversial restrictions¹ on women wearing facial coverings in Parliament. The new rules sort of segregate² the women who covered their faces behind glass barriers in Parliament's public galleries. The ruling sparked a media outcry inside and outside the Parliament. 

 

We can't afford to have a division and a splitting off of people behind glass screens in the middle of a place that's supposed to bring us together. 

 

A man is recovering in a Perth hospital this morning after being attacked by a shark. Twenty-three-year-old Sean Pollard was surfing at a beach near Esperance on Western Australia's south coast yesterday when he was attacked. It's understood he lost one arm and a significant part of the other one. 

 

The country's Attorneys General and police ministers are gathering³ in the Victorian city of Geelong for talks on national security. Representatives from ASIO and the Federal Police will address the meeting. The ministers will be briefed on the recent anti-terror raids and the Federal Government's new national security laws. 

 

And a policeman has been shot in the leg with his own gun in Melbourne's north. The officer went into a hotel room at Creston last night where a man was threatening to harm himself. The gun went off during a subsequent struggle. A 43-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder and will face court today.

1 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

2 segregate   

adj.分离的，被隔离的；vt.使分离，使隔离

参考例句：

• We have to segregate for a few day.我们得分离一段日子。
• Some societies still segregate men and women.有的社会仍然将男女隔离。

3 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。