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This is a transcript from The World Today. The program is broadcast around Australia at 12:10pm on ABC Local Radio. You can also listen to the story in and and formats. Families pack English courtroom for Hercules inquest verdict The World Today - Thursday, 23 October , 2008 12:34:00 Reporter: Emma Alberici ELEANOR HALL: Now to the British inquiry into the deaths of 10 servicemen in Iraq, including Australian Flight Lieutenant Paul Pardoel. The coroner has ruled that serious systemic failures in the UK's Ministry of Defence contributed to the deaths on board a Hercules aircraft which was shot down northwest of Baghdad. The family and friends of the 10 servicemen packed into a tiny courtroom...
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This is a transcript from The World Today. The program is broadcast around Australia at 12:10pm on ABC Local Radio. You can also listen to the story in and and formats. Families still fighting for defence culture change The World Today - Thursday, 23 October , 2008 12:30:00 Reporter: Karen Barlow ELEANOR HALL: They've received compensation from the Federal Government but the families of four Australian soldiers who committed suicide say their fight with the defence force is not over yet. The young soldiers killed themselves after being subjected to bastardisation and bullying and their relatives say that they want the Federal Government to bring in reforms to ensure that those members of the...
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This is a transcript from The World Today. The program is broadcast around Australia at 12:10pm on ABC Local Radio. You can also listen to the story in and and formats. Candidates vie for Hispanic vote in key states The World Today - Thursday, 23 October , 2008 12:26:00 Reporter: Michael Rowland ELEANOR HALL: Opinion polls show the Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama building a steady lead over his Republican rival John McCain. More significantly, Senator Obama is edging ahead in the handful of battleground states that will decide the...
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This is a transcript from The World Today. The program is broadcast around Australia at 12:10pm on ABC Local Radio. You can also listen to the story in and and formats. NZ Reserve announces major cut The World Today - Thursday, 23 October , 2008 12:18:00 Reporter: Kerri Ritchie ELEANOR HALL: Across the Tasman, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand is certainly not upbeat about the outlook for that economy. This morning it delivered its biggest single interest rates cut ever - lowering rates by a full percentage point to 6.5 per cent. As New Zealand correspondent Kerri Ritchie reports - it is the third cut in the official cash rate this year. KERRI RITCHIE: As the world stares down the barrel of a...
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The New Zealand dollar managed to rise when the Reserve Bank cut the official cash rate by 100 basis points to 6.5 per cent today. It was not what usually happens when interest rates are cut but there was a rumour in London overnight that the cut was...
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