近来，中国的治安恶化，针对外国人的枪击越来越多。中国警方在劫持人质的事件中，经常选择开枪解决事情。去年6月，上海警方射杀了一名在肯德基炸鸡店劫持一名儿童的劫匪。2005年6月，西安警方也是射杀了一名劫匪。
Suburbs in Sydney's west,southwest and northwest were the hardest hit,with Blacktown becoming the repossessions capital of Sydney.随着利率继续上升，汽油价格的猛涨，信用卡消费激增，家庭预算更加捉襟见肘，情况将变得更糟。
"When you can go in to any store, and get the best quality and you're guaranteed the lowest prices, there's no reason not to go there,"ALDI超市确实价廉物美，价格虽然便宜，但质量就一定不如Coles & Woolie吗？我个人的亲身经验是未必如此。
Choice sent out secret shoppers to buy a basket of 33 specific items at 111 supermarkets across the country. The basket at Coles cost $97.47, where 10 of the items were on special, while at Woolworths, where only two or three of the items were on sale, the basket came in at $105.43 - 8 per cent more than Coles.澳洲人被Coles和Woolworth这两家垄断的时间太久，盘剥的利润太多，似乎都已经麻木了。
The basket contained 28 branded products and five staples. At Aldi, which only sells products under its own brand, the cost of the basket dropped to $55.70, almost half the price of the major chains.
Spurred on by new figures showing that more than a million households are suffering housing stress, Mr Rudd doubled the number of homes expected to be built under Labor's National Rental Affordability Scheme to 100,000.Investors will be offered $6,000 tax breaks for 10 years - not the five promised before the election - if they rent out their new properties at 20 per cent below the market rate.The aim is to cut rent on a new average three bedroom unit to $280 a week from the current $350 - a $70 saving.
States and Territories have agreed to provide $2,000 per home either through cash payments or in kind, such as via the provision of cut price land or concessions on stamp duty.
