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Financial position of Australia’s most populous state then expected to improve with a projected surplus in 2027-28Australia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales government has unveiled a plan to boost housing construction in its 2025-26 budget by helping developers finance new projects and increasing Tafe funding for trades.The Minns government’s housing program involves the government being guarantor on thousands of dwellings to assist mid-level developers get finance, and is the centrepiece of Tuesday’s state budget. It otherwise looked to control spending and focused on repairing the bottom line.

The US president has posted on social media that both Israel and Iran have agreed to a ‘Complete and Total CEASEFIRE’ that should begin in about six hours. Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSussan Ley condemns ‘provocative’ Iranian attacks, says Australia should stand ‘firmly with our allies’The opposition leader, Sussan Ley, condemned Iran’s attack on a US base in Qatar, claiming the “provocative act is a violation of Qatari sovereignty” and again urging Anthony Albanese to make a last-minute trip to the Nato summit this week. Ley said in a statement:…

Ukrainian president says two countries will deepen defence cooperation with the objective to ‘stop Russian terror’Ukraine and the UK are to deepen their defence cooperation by jointly producing long-range drones, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday after talks with Keir Starmer in Downing Street aimed at forcing Russia to “think about peace”.Zelenskyy said his main objective was “to save as many lives as possible” and to “stop Russian terror”. Writing on social media, he called for “maximum political and diplomatic coordination” and closer work on “joint defence projects and weapons production”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/23/zelenskyy-calls-russia-iran-and-north-korea-a-coalition-of-murderers Author : Luke Harding

UK foreign secretary wants Iran to return to negotiating table but refuses to endorse strikes by US and IsraelMiddle East crisis – live updatesAny Iranian move to close the strait of Hormuz waterway would be an act of monumental self-harm, David Lammy, the UK’s foreign secretary, said, as he continued to refuse to endorse the Israeli and American strikes on Iran, or lay out the UK view of their lawfulness.Lammy said there was no need for the British government to say if the strikes were legal since the UK was not involved in the action and had not been asked