澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-04-09（在线收听） |
Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher is being remembered as a strong but divisive leader. Baroness Thatcher has died in London following a stroke. She became Britain's first female prime minister in 1979 and transformed the U.K. with a radical free market agenda. Thatcherism as it was called help curb inflation, but also led to massive job losses. She also committed Britain to war over the Falkland Islands, and survived an IRA assassination plot. The Opposition is releasing the detail of its alternative broadband policy today. The Opposition says that its plan would cost 29 billion dollars, compared with government's 44-billion-dollar National Broadband Network. The coalition's communication spokesman Malcolm Turnbull says it will provide internet speeds over at least 25 megabits a second.
Holden has refused to rule out forced redundancies, as it sheds 500 jobs in South Australia and Victoria. The company says the high Australian dollar and weak demand is to blame for the cuts.
Voter support for the Gillard government has risen in the latest opinion poll. Today's Newspoll shows labor gaining a 2% boost to its primary vote. But labor still trails the coalition 45% to 55% on a two-party-preferred basis.
North Korea says it's pulling its workers out of an industrial zone that it shares with South Korea. Pyongyang has more than 50,000 workers at the site, which was set up as a symbol of cooperation between the neighboring countries. |
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