澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-11-16（在线收听）

Both sides of politics will today make a national apology to the Australians and former child migrants who suffered while in institutions or in care. The Federal Government says it's a significant step forward in the healing process. Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown will also give a formal apology early in the new year for the role successive British government's played.

The Federal Government's emissions trading scheme could pass the Lower House as early as today. But a concession to the Coalition excluding agriculture from the ETS has failed to win support from the Nationals and at least one Liberal. The Government and Opposition are still negotiating other changes.

The US President Barack Obama has called on Burma's Prime Minister to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He made an appeal for her release when he met General Thein Sein at a meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Singapore at the weekend. Mrs. Suu Kyi's house arrest was extended in August ahead of elections next year.

And in golf, Tiger Woods hasn’t ruled out returning to Australia next year if his tournament schedule allows it. The world No. 1 was a two-shot winner at the Australian Masters at Kingston Heath in Melbourne yesterday.

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