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一 | CANBERRA, Australia -- Ultramarathon runner Pat Farmer ended a 14,400-kilometer (8,950-mile) run at the central Australian sandstone landmark Uluru on Wednesday after a seven-month journey to raise public support for the creation of an Indigenous advocacy body in the constitution.Australians will vote on Saturday at a referendum that would enshrine in the constitution a so-called Indigenous Voice to Parliament, a mechanism for Indigenous Australians to advise lawmakers on policies that effect their lives.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was at Uluru, which is an Indigenous sacred site also known as Ayers Rock, to welcome the 61-year-old runner’s arrival.Albanese said he had “utter admiration and awe” for Farmer’s commitment for the cause which opinion polls suggest is unlikely to succeed.“No one has done more than this bloke and I am very pleased to welcome him here at Uluru,” Albanese said.Farmer said his first glimpse of the enormous rock rising from the flat Australian wilderness at a distance of 40 kilometers (25 miles) brought a tear to his eye.“I’m glad. Very, very happy to be at this point in time, this point in the world’s time where we start to acknowledge Indigenous communities right around the world and the significance of that culture,” Farmer told reporters.The former lawmaker's run began in Hobart on the island state of Tasmania on April 17 and traversed every Australian state as well as both mainland territories.Uluru has special significance in the campaign to create the Voice as a means of acknowledging Indigenous Australians in the constitution.The Voice was recommended in 2017 by a group of 250 Indigenous leaders who met at Uluru. They were delegates of the First Nations National Constitutional Convention the then-government had asked for advice on how the Indigenous population could be acknowledged in the constitution.Indigenous senator Pat Dodson, the government’s envoy for promoting the Voice, joined the referendum campaign on Wednesday for the first since taking medical leave in April for treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.He said in a National Press Club speech he remained confident that a majority of Australians would vote for the Voice despite polls showing its popularity had slid in recent months.A “No” decision would be a backward step for Australia after the High Court ruled in 1992 that Indigenous Australians had land rights that predated British colonization and after the Australian Parliament apologized to the Indigenous population in 2008 for past injustices, Dodson said.“Do you want to go forward or do you want to go backwards or do you want to do nothing? Do you want to look yourself in the mirror and have pride the next day, or have some doubts and uncertainties and even an increase in shame? ” Dodson asked voters.While recent opinion polls suggest most Australians oppose the Voice, a poll published Wednesday found 59% of Indigenous respondents were in favor.That support had slipped from more than 80% supported suggested by polls published early this year.The latest poll published in The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper was based on an online survey of 420 Indigenous voters between Sept. 22 and Oct. 4. It has a 4.8 percentage point margin of error.Indigenous Australians account for 3.8% of Australia’s population. They have worse outcomes on average than other Australians in a range of measures including health, employment, education, incarceration and suicide rates. Statistically, Indigenous Australians die around eight years younger than the wider community.。视频加载中...7日至今，美国加利福尼亚州洛杉矶地区多场山火持续肆虐。

二 | 坏消息是，新一轮季节性强风“圣安娜风”来袭，助推当地规模最大的“帕利塞兹”山火向东推进，危及更多社区及知名机构，包括收藏大量艺术珍品的盖蒂中心。

三 | 加州眼下紧急调动多方资源，甚至加拿大和墨西哥也出动消防力量参与灭火和救援。风这么大，消防员没准备好面对时速可达100英里（约160公里）的“圣安娜风”，美国联邦紧急事务管理局局长迪妮·克里斯韦尔12日在电视新闻节目中直言，消防员们没有做好准备。克里斯韦尔说，当地消防员经验丰富，但“他们从未见过每小时100英里的大风助推火势，这些大风和（其他）天气条件才是真正影响火势的因素”。他们头几个小时、头几天能控制住多少火势，至关重要。1月11日，消防员在美国加利福尼亚州洛杉矶曼德维尔峡谷的一座山丘顶部观望野火火势。新华社发（邱晨摄）气象部门预报，新一轮“圣安娜风”的风力预计12日清晨达到一个小高峰，最强风力或出现在13日夜间至14日。“圣安娜风”由内陆吹向沿海地区，强风叠加温暖干燥的天气，极易助长火势。往年，加州通常在12月至来年2月降水较多，使得“圣安娜风”难以引发大规模野火。然而，洛杉矶去年下半年异常干旱、温度明显偏高，加上大旱之前一度雨水较多，当地植被过度生长，可燃物大幅增加……诸多要素叠满，大风一来，火情不容乐观。知名机构云集，下个遭殃的是？洛杉矶地区是诸多文化和科研机构所在地，从好莱坞到喷气推进实验室，许多机构受到山火影响。目前规模最大的两处山火分别位于东部的帕利塞兹地区和西部的伊顿地区。其中，帕利塞兹山火尤为严重，过火面积达95.7平方公里，火势目前仅控制住11%。

四 | 在新一轮“圣安娜风”影响下，这处山火将向东推进，知名艺术博物馆盖蒂中心首当其冲，处于最新疏散令范围内。1月11日，一架消防飞机在美国加利福尼亚州洛杉矶曼德维尔峡谷的山丘上投放阻燃剂，以防止野火进一步蔓延。

五 | 新华社发（邱晨摄）盖蒂中心建于1997年，收藏大量绘画、雕塑、装饰艺术和摄影作品，包括梵高名作《鸢尾花》及伦勃朗画作。不过，该中心认为该馆“已处在最安全的地方”，暂不打算撤走藏品和工作人员。在十多公里外，加州另一处标志性人文景点盖蒂别墅博物馆上周遭遇山火逼近，形势一度危急，目前尚未完全摆脱山火威胁。