Sunday, July 18, 2010

В Австралии будут проведены выборы (English, Russian)


Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard called an election on Saturday for August 21...

Australia's first female prime minister was appointed three weeks ago by the ruling Labor party as the government faced electoral defeat...

...Australia's robust economy will be key to the 2010 election...

Both the government and opposition have vowed to return to a budget surplus.

Yet, voters will be given stark choices:

* Gillard plans a 30 percent mining tax, raising A$10.5 billion ($9.12 billion) from 2012. Abbott plans to dump it.

* Gillard believes a carbon price to fight climate change is inevitable, with a emissions trading scheme possibly brought in after 2012-13. Abbott does not.

* Gillard has proposed a possible East Timor regional asylum processing center to stop boatpeople arriving in Australia, although she said in an interview with Sky TV there was "no quick fix." Abbott plans to reopen Pacific island detention camps.

"Under Labor we will be moving forward to more debt, more taxes, more spending and more boats -- that's why Labor needs to move out for our country to move on," Abbott told a news conference in Brisbane.

...Australia is one of the world's top per-capita emitters of planet-warming carbon pollution.

The government and opposition have pledged to cut carbon emissions by 5 percent by 2020, but business has warned a lack of a clear climate policy is hindering power sector investment.

The small Greens party is set to control the upper house Senate and will push the next government to introduce a carbon price in return for support on other legislation.

Voters will have to choose between two contrasting personalities in Abbott and Gillard.

Abbott is a pugnacious and socially conservative Catholic, who once trained for the priesthood, and is opposed to same sex marriages and abortions.

Gillard in contrast does not believe in God, is unmarried but has a long-time partner, and is childless.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66G00Q20100717

Краткий перевод:

Премьер-министр Австралии Джулия Гиллард объявила в субботу дату парламентских выборов - они состоятся 21 августа...

...В конце июня Лейбористская партия Австралии избрала Гиллард новым премьером...Радд в последнее время терял свою популярность, в частности из-за своего решения отложить рассмотрение законопроекта, согласно которому крупные предприятия должны платить за выбросы вредных веществ в атмосферу.

http://www.rian.ru/world/20100717/255688750.html

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