澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-21（在线收听）

The search continues for a plane carrying six Australian mining executives that's gone missing in West Africa. The men from Sundance Resources were planning to inspect iron ore sites. The plane carrying 11 people including mining magnate Ken Talbot was due to arrive in the Congo on Saturday night after leaving Cameroon.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is gaining ground on Kevin Rudd as the preferred prime minister according to the latest Newspoll. Support for Mr Abbott jumped four percentage points to 37 per cent. Mr Rudd's popularity dropped three points to 46. Labor narrowly leads the Coalition on a two-party preferred basis.

The Federal Government hopes to fast track its national broadband network after striking an 11-billion-dollar deal with Telstra. The deal involves a 2-billion-dollar sweetener to Telstra and follows months of intense negotiations between the Government and the Telco.

At least 147 people have been killed in flooding in southern China. Heavy rain triggered landslides, cutting food and water supplies and burying almost 100 people. Almost 1.5 million people living along the river have fled their homes.

And BP has rejected accusations that it underestimated the size of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A BP document released by a US congressman shows up to 100,000 barrels of oil could be leaking into the ocean each day.