据2008年9月21日《悉尼晨锋报》报道,澳大利亚公司监管机构采取与英美等国相似的措施限制股票市场的卖空交易。
澳大利亚证券及投资监管委员会宣布,从星期一开始禁止进行卖空交易。卖空交易是以借得的股票进行的交易,投资者在所交易股票跌价时获利。美国和英国的证券监督机构已经采取了禁止卖空交易的措施。
联邦政府有关发言人表示,卖空交易是一种操纵市场的行为,它使市场动荡起伏,对当前的市场状况极为不利,因此政府对证监会的决定表示欢迎。


1 比尔·盖茨 570亿美元 微软
2 沃伦·巴菲特 500亿美元 伯克希尔哈撒韦
3 劳伦斯·埃里森 270亿美元 甲骨文
4 吉姆·沃尔顿 234亿美元 沃尔玛百货
5 罗布森·沃尔顿 233亿美元 沃尔玛百货
6 艾莉丝·沃尔顿 232亿美元 沃尔玛百货
7 克里斯蒂·沃尔顿家族 232亿美元 沃尔玛百货
8 迈克尔·彭博 200亿美元 彭博
9 查尔斯·科赫 190亿美元 柯克能源公司
10戴维·科赫 190亿美元 柯克能源公司

也许外交官出身,陆克文总理对于海外访问似乎特别热衷,但是他如今是总理,不是外交部长。他上任以来的外访行程已经超过了澳洲外长,这不能不让挣扎在生活成本不断上涨中的澳洲国内民众为之侧目。
The EPA's list of current and former landfills that require on-going management or clean-up.
Bunting Road, Brooklyn
594 Geelong Road, Brooklyn
40-60 McDonald Road, Brooklyn
Former Sydenham Quarry landfill, Sydenham Road, Sydenham
Green Gully Road, Keilor Downs
Quarry Road, Narre Warren North
Five Mile Road, Nar Nar Goon
Lots 7-12 Stevensons Road, Cranbourne
Clifton St and Wales Road, Northcote
Lot 87 Newlands Road, Reservoir
Parish of Frankston C/A 33C, Frankston North
Clarke Road, Springvale South
Clarke Road (eastern side), Springvale South
125 Colemans Road, Lyndhurst
Former Altona landfill, Queen St, Altona
22 New St, Spotswood
Kyle Road, Altona North
Former Craigieburn Road landfill, Craigieburn
Mahoneys Road, Campbellfield
Lot 8, Elder St, Clayton South
Ryans Road, Clayton South
Clayton Road, Clayton South
Mulkarra Drive, Chelsea
Scotch Parade, Celsea
llewellyn Park and Cathies Lane, Wantirna South
Former James Hardie landfill, Brooklyn
Farnsworth Avenue, Footscray
Dorset Public Golf Course, Trawalla Rd, Croydon
Ferris Road, Melton
119 Truemans Road, Rosebud West
254-450 Moorooduc Hwy, Mt Eliza
2 Lens St, Cribb Point
14 Federation St, Boxhill
500 Cooper St, Epping
20-34 Mahoneys Road, Thomastown
108 Killara Road, Gruyere
喜欢豢养宠物的网友要小心了。




资料显示,前霍华德政府提供了澳洲有史以来最大的社会福利,而目前执政的工党并未能予以改变。自从2004年,由中国带动的资源热潮,使澳洲资源经济非常蓬勃,有13.2万个有孩子的家庭享受免税;2万个单亲家庭和12.4万对夫妻和单身人士处于纳税的灰色区。
慷慨的税收制度使得纳税人可获得收入而不用交税。单身的免税收入可达$19,448元;单亲可达$53,819元;有两个孩子,夫妻均有收入的家庭免税收入可达$59,367元。
随着人口的老年化,这种制度的危险是当经济放缓时选民会要求更多的补贴,到下一个10年的后期,将会有50%的家庭享受免税。

From 'Have kids, must move out''
The Age February 26, 2006In some ways, the couples who move to once-daggy McKinnon can suck on their lattes as well as live in the home of their dreams.The comparatively nondescript patch of suburb, wedged on flat land between Ormond and Bentleigh, is undergoing a mini-boom in school populations and real estate prices. One primary school has seen enrolments rise from 150 to more than 500 in the past decade.Real estate agents such as Nick Renna of Hocking Stuart and Craig Williamson of Buxtons are enjoying the action as hundreds of people inspect any house in the $550-650,000 price range.Mostly, they say, the influx is coming from St Kilda, Elwood and Carlton, among people who are trying to hold on to a cosmopolitan lifestyle - they still want the "brekky" outside on Sunday morning. If Bentleigh doesn't suit - and it is trying very hard - then St Kilda is only 10 minutes away.Williamson says the area's period houses - invariably the Californian bungalow - are often unrenovated, having been in one family for a lifetime. They are affordable - and young couples love stamping their own style upon them.The magnet at the hub of all this action is McKinnon Secondary College, which last year attained its long-held ambition to be the state system's top non-selective-entry VCE school, measured by the number of subject scores over 40.The school has always done well, but principal Alan Lawrence can boast that it just pipped the highly regarded Glen Waverley Secondary, and that 93 per cent of the VCE class got first-round university offers.This year, McKinnon has 1402 students, all taken from the school zone and from siblings of children already at the school.But Lawrence would like the freedom to pick another 20 or so children from outside the zone for the music-specialty school (the school is famous as the place where The Cat Empire's Harry Angus learned his trumpet skills).As a result, discussions will be held this week about reducing the size of the zone.For home buyers, this is the wildcard, one of the factors the Gannons took into account when they bought in Queen Street, just a few streets from the school.For Andrew, an IT professional working in South Melbourne, and Michelle, a partner in a Camberwell hairdressing salon, it was always going to be a top public or private school for Dylan.They could probably afford private education, they say, but opted instead to put the money into renovation and possibly a swimming pool."The other thing was that we didn't want to be slaves to our kids' education, and we also factored in that if we could spend more time with them, rather than having to work, that would also be pretty positive in the relationship and support," Andrew says. So McKinnon it was.













| 据2008年9月16日《悉尼晨锋报》报道,墨尔本一个法庭周一判决六名穆斯林男子罪名成立,他们被控密谋对澳洲发动恐怖攻击。 这是澳大利亚最大的恐怖分子审判案。经过六个月的庭审以及一个月的商议之后,陪审团同时还做出了其他四名穆斯林男子无罪的判决,并且还在继续商议对另外两名嫌疑人的指控。 这个团伙被指控计划针对足球比赛进行恐怖袭击。控方表示,这个恐怖团伙头目Abdul Benbrika甚至告诉他的追随者,无辜的妇女儿童也在可杀之列。被告的辩护律师则表示,Abdul Benbrika与其他人只不过是因为对中东穆斯琳所受待遇不满而发泄心中的怒气而已。 相关链接:路透社:澳洲反恐法规日益严格 境内穆斯林人人自危 |
