澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-07-24

 Bill Shorten is preparing to sell his policy of reversal on the asylum¹ boat turnback to ALP National Conference. Several Labor² MPs have strongly criticized the opposition³ leader's decision to support the government's turnback policy. Bill Shorten's former leadership rival Anthony A. says he has real concerns about appealling to people's dark sides. Labor's conference spokesman Andrew Lee says he is not sure if Mr. Shorten has the numbers to change the policy. Predicting outcomes in Labor Party conference, saying now, other attenders are for ...in past years. But what I can confidently tell you is this despised one we conducted with respect. NASA has discovered a planet very similar to earth. Kepler 452b orbits its star in a similar distance to earth orbits the sun. Its surface gravity is twice as strong as that on earth and orbits its star every 385 days. NASA's science chief says the new world is the most earth-like planet to be discovered. A British teenager has admitted to be involved in a terrorist plot attacking the Anzac Day parade in Melbourne. The 15-year-old pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to one cut being set in another person to carry out and attack the event. He will be sentenced at a later date. And the prime minister Tony Abbott has described the GST as one of the better taxes. It comes up to the state and territary leaders that discuss the prospects⁴ of the rising GST to help pay off ever rising health costs. Mr. Abbott says he wants to make a tax system as fair as possible. 

1 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

2 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

3 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

4 prospects   

n.希望，前途(恒为复数)

参考例句：

• There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
• They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。