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Improvements to phone service will be world-leading, minister to pledge. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGreens vow to overhaul job services and abolish mutual obligationsThis morning the Greens will launch their policy to overhaul job services by eliminating for-profit providers from the employment services system, restoring the Commonwealth Employment Services, abolishing mutual obligations and hiring more staff to bring call wait times to Centrelink to under five minutes.The privatised employment service system is costly, ineffective and cruel. It makes it harder for people to look for and find work, while enriching for-profit

US, Russia, Belarus and North Korea vote against resolution as 93 countries vote in favor, spurning rival US resolutionThe United Nations general assembly has backed a resolution drafted by Ukraine and the European Union condemning Russia on the third anniversary of its full-scale invasion, spurning a rival US resolution reflecting Donald Trump’s split with Europe and growing union with Vladimir Putin.The United States, Russia, Belarus and North Korea all voted against the EU-Ukrainian resolution underlining an extraordinary shift in US policy since the US president’s election that has largely absolved the Russian president of responsibility for the invasion. Continue reading...

Amesbury, 55, admitted the charge after punching a man to the ground on a night out in Frodsham, CheshireMike Amesbury, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, has been sentenced to 10 weeks in prison for punching a man to the ground.Amesbury, who was suspended by the Labour party after an investigation, last month admitted a single charge of section 39 assault in relation to the incident after a night out in his constituency. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/24/suspended-labour-mp-mike-amesbury-sentenced-assault Author : Jamie Grierson Publish date : 2025-02-24 17:28:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Stance of German alliance’s leader could herald closer ties with France but ‘debt brake’ poses obstacle to spendingGerman election live – latest updatesFriedrich Merz marked his conservative alliance’s victory in Germany’s election by urging Europe to make itself more independent from the US – a project that will be music to the ears of Emmanuel Macron but may turn on whether Merz can build a Bundestag majority to lift the so-called debt brake that slows increases in defence spending.One possibility for the CDU/CSU alliance leader, who is on course to become Germany’s next chancellor, is to claim that the country