澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-05-22

 Top stories today, three more shots have been fired from the house at the center of an ongoing¹ siege in Melbourne's northwest, the man holding police at bay is understood to be 43-year-old, Christopher Dean Binse, a convicted prison escapee, authorities say some members of the media have defied police instructions and moved from designated safe zones.

 

Qantas has announced a shake-up of the executive team and business structure, Qantas International and Qantas domestic will soon be run as two separate companies from July, the businesses will also report their profit numbers individually.

 

The prime minister says she isn't going to change her mind and accept Craig Thomson back into the labor² caucus³, earlier this month, Julia Gillard suspended Mr.Thomson from caucus, and asked him to suspend his membership of the labor party, Mrs.Gillard is visiting US, but says she has seen a summary of Mr.Thomson's address to parliament yesterday.

 

And four girls at the center of the International custody⁴ battle could be on a plane bound for Italy as early as tonight, police say the four sisters are safe after being found in a house at Buderim on the Sunshine Coast last night, they've been in hiding for the past week after refusing to board a plane to return to Italy with their father.

1 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

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 caucus   

n.秘密会议；干部会议；v.（参加）干部开会议

参考例句：

• This multi-staged caucus takes several months.这个多级会议常常历时好几个月。
• It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险。

4 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。