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The treasurer will continue to lobby US officials for an Australian exemption to steel and aluminium tariffs Greens want Labor’s new Medicare plan implemented before electionThe federal Greens have welcomed the Albanese government’s plan to significantly boost bulk-billing rates, as part of an $8.5bn policy, but claimed its campaigning influenced the decision.Greens pressure works. In a wealthy country like ours everyone should be able to see a GP, psychologist, dentist or nurse with their Medicare card.It’s good Labor has adopted part of our plan to help people see the GP for free. Now let’s make it law before the election.Trade

Open letter from some of the country’s most distinguished artists ‘strongly protests’ at the removal of Sabsabi and curator Michael DagostinoGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLiving artists who have represented Australia at the Venice Biennale over the past five decades – and the estates of a number of now deceased artists who have done the same – have signed an open letter to the board and chief executive of Creative Australia to reinstate sacked artist Khaled Sabsabi and his curator Michael Dagostino.Some of Australia’s most distinguished living artists, including Imants Tillers, Mike Parr, Susan Norrie,

Parents of Muo Lisa and her male cousin were doing farm work when the two-year-olds came across unexploded ordinanceA grenade believed to be more than 25 years old killed two toddlers when it blew up near their homes in rural Cambodia, officials said.The accident happened on Saturday in Siem Reap province’s Svay Leu district, where there had been heavy fighting in the 1980s and 90s between Cambodian government soldiers and rebel guerrillas from the communist Khmer Rouge. The group had been ousted from power in 1979. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/22/two-toddlers-in-cambodia-killed-by-decades-old-grenade-that-detonated Author : Associated Press Publish date : 2025-02-22

The pontiff is in hospital for a complex lung infection and has been given high flows of oxygen and blood transfusionsThe Vatican has said Pope Francis is in a critical condition after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required high flows of oxygen.Francis has been hospitalised for a week with a complex lung infection. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/22/pope-francis-now-in-a-critical-condition-after-respiratory-crisis-vatican-says Author : Associated Press Publish date : 2025-02-22 18:53:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.