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Radio Australia News nospam@your.abc.net.au nospam@your.abc.net.au 2008-08-21T19:41:17+11:00 2008-08-21T19:41:17+11:00 Australian aid has failed to help the Pacific, particularly Papua New Guinea, according to a new report.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342744.htm2008-08-21T19:41:17+11:00Fiji's human rights body is claiming Australian military helicopters endangered aviation safety by flying unannounced into Fiji's airspace on the eve of the 2006 coup.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342966.htm2008-08-21T19:41:17+11:00Australia's Northern Territory government has proposed its own guest worker scheme, employing people from East Timor.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342778.htm2008-08-21T19:41:14+11:00A promise by the National Australia Bank to follow the Australian Reserve Bank if it cuts interest rates later this year has failed to influence the other major banks to do the same.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342892.htm2008-08-21T17:45:53+11:00A tourism lobby group says Australia should build a health travel sector in the same way it has developed education tourism.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342891.htm2008-08-21T17:45:53+11:00The Business Council of Australia is lobbying the Australian government to change its proposed emissions trading scheme because of the cost to the economy.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342890.htm2008-08-21T17:45:53+11:00As Qantas announces a huge profit jump in its full-year results, the airline's engineers have accepted a new enterprise bargaining agreement offered to them, bringing months of industrial action to an end.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342643.htm2008-08-21T14:53:40+11:00Senior members of Australia's political opposition have raised the issue of race in the debate about plans to bring in guest workers from the Pacific.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342436.htm2008-08-21T14:53:40+11:00A south-east Queensland vet has become only the third Australian to die from Hendra virus.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342433.htm2008-08-21T14:30:30+11:00A baby humpback separated from its mother off Sydney's north shore is getting weaker.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342435.htm2008-08-21T14:30:30+11:00More than 400 jobs are to be cut at Broken Hill's major lead and zinc mine in New South Wales' far west.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342434.htm2008-08-21T14:30:30+11:00The Queensland Government has defended an increase in the amount of water irrigators are taking from the northern end of the Murray Darling river system.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342437.htm2008-08-21T14:30:30+11:00Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he expects today's talks at the Pacific Island Forum to focus on Fiji's boycott of the event, as well as climate change.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342024.htm2008-08-21T08:08:04+11:00An Australian Nationals politician has defended the Government's new Pacific Island worker scheme against attacks from the Coalition Leader Brendan Nelson.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2341921.htm2008-08-21T04:33:24+11:00The Australian government has been forced to apologise over an embarrassing incident at the Pacific Islands Forum in the tiny nation of Niue.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2341869.htm2008-08-20T22:31:13+11:00Australia's federal opposition leader, Brendan Nelson, has attacked the government's new guest worker trial, arguing that Australians can fill labour shortages in regional areas.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2341714.htm2008-08-20T22:21:03+11:00Papua New Guinea says it remains cautious about the possibility of labour exploitation under a pilot scheme where Pacific Islanders will be offered seasonal jobs in Australia.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2341507.htm2008-08-20T20:00:02+11:00The Australian government has refused to commit to a substantial increase in funding for Australian athletes in the lead up to the London Olympics.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2341783.htm2008-08-20T20:00:01+11:00Australia's shadow treasurer, Malcolm Turnbull, does not think Treasurer Wayne Swan has the power to force banks to lower interest rates.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2341782.htm2008-08-20T20:00:01+11:00An Australian marine science expert says a whale calf, abandoned by its mother off Sydney's nothern beaches, should be euthanised.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2341781.htm2008-08-20T20:00:01+11:00An Australian court has granted an 86 year old alleged war criminal bail while he fights efforts to extradite him to Hungary to face a murder charge.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2341712.htm2008-08-20T20:00:01+11:00Australia's shadow treasurer, Malcolm Turnbull, does not think Treasurer Wayne Swan has the power to force banks to lower interest rates.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2341713.htm2008-08-20T18:35:18+11:00The chief executive of the world's biggest miner and a major sponsor of the Beijing Olympics, has refused to buy into criticism of China's human rights and freedom of speech record.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2341506.htm2008-08-20T16:02:15+11:00New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says she is not offended by a booklet handed out to media by the Australian Government, which implies she's a control freak.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2341232.htm2008-08-20T16:02:15+11:00The Malaysian based airline, Air Asia X, has announced it will fly into the south eastern Australian city of Melbourne.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2341505.htm2008-08-20T16:02:15+11:00