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Australia and Papua New Guinea to start negotiations on defence treaty. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAdam Bandt on Greens’ proposed Centrelink boostAnnouncing the plan (see previous post), Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt said:Finishing school and working out what’s next is a pivotal time for young people, but with rents, education fees and the cost of living all rising, many of them are finding completing further study is not a path they can afford.Starting out your adult life shouldn’t be this hard. Labor should be doing much more to support young people

‘In Brazil coup-mongers go to jail. In the US they get back into the White House,’ says one leading politicianBrazilian democrats have celebrated the strength of their country’s judiciary and institutions after former president Jair Bolsonaro was left facing political oblivion and jail time for allegedly plotting a coup, in stark contrast to the US’s failure to bring Donald Trump to justice for his anti-democratic acts.“In Brazil coup-mongers go to jail. In the US they get back into the White House,” said Marcelo Freixo, a leading leftwing politician on Wednesday after the attorney general formally accused Bolsonaro of engineering a

The order doesn’t fulfill campaign pledges, but does cement the administration’s reputation for promoting childbearingDuring Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, as support for reproductive rights mounted, the president promised to force insurance companies to pay for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments. On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order that, the White House said, “expands access to in vitro fertilization”.“PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT”, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, posted in all-caps on Twitter/X. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/trump-ivf-executive-order Author : Carter Sherman Publish date : 2025-02-19 18:26:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Exclusive: rights group says use of algorithms and data is unfair, dangerous and reinforces discrimination in policingBritish policing’s use of algorithms and data to predict where crime will happen is racist and picks on the poor, a report from Amnesty International says.The human rights group says predictive policing tools, used by most police forces in the UK, are so unfair, dangerous and discriminatory that they should be banned. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/19/uk-use-of-predictive-policing-is-racist-and-should-be-banned-says-amnesty Author : Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent Publish date : 2025-02-19 17:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.