🔎Labor's Shadow Asst Minister for Government Services & NDIS 🌏Chair Senate Foreign Affairs References Committee 🏞Senator for 6.7 million Victorians #auspol
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Once we've defeated #COVID19Aus we will:
1. CHERISH health workers as never before
2. NEVER again consider cleaners unskilled
3. REALISE the health of the least cared for homeless person impacts all of us
4. NOT place blind trust in foreign supply chains ever again
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In 4 minutes, the European Parliament will start voting on a resolution demanding the European Commission imposes immediate economic sanctions on.... Poland.
Meanwhile, Poland has taken in 1.2 mln Ukrainian refugees in the past 2 weeks and is struggling with the economic costs.
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⚡️ Armed Forces: Russia captures 400 Ukrainians in Kherson.
Ukraine’s Armed Forces report that in an attempt to crush Ukrainian resistance, Russian National Guard units have entered Kherson and illegally detained over 400 Ukrainian citizens.
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Russian government limits total withdrawals per individual to $10k. The next step is expropriation of individual’s foreign currency holdings to fund their war. business-standard.com/articl…
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Russia Set to Ban Commodity Exports. Putin is effectively sanctioning himself. Not sure how this helps him in a moment when he’s desperate for cash wsj.com/articles/russia-set-…
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A list of political figures killed or attempted to be killed by the Kremlin was brought to the Russian embassy in Washington by protesters.
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⚡️ Russian air strikes kill 22 people in Sumy overnight on March 8.
Head of Sumy regional state administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyy said that three children were among those killed in the northeastern city.
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Pretty grim tone here once again. Shearer says it's crucial for like-minded countries to work together to preserve the "liberal" aspects of the world order if they want to have "some hope" of "at least curbing some of China's more assertive behaviour" 6/
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Shearer on the war in Ukraine. Nothing surprising here, but worth putting on the record. He struggles to see how Putin can make an "elegant or even inelegant dismount." He says "we are in for a very brutal, bloody couple of weeks" 5/
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VERY frank. Shearer says he's heartened by the effective US diplomatic response to Russia's invasion + the way its marshaled a response with allies. But he says the Biden Admin doesn't have a "proper regional economic plan." Australia "badgers" the US "mercilessly" about this 3/
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Shearer says that the new pact between China and Russia is a "troubling" strategic convergence 2/
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Thread. Some very frank observations from Andrew Shearer, one of Australia's top intelligence chiefs. Shearer told the AFR Business Summit that Australia's intelligence community believes China is intent on global pre-eminence and views regional primacy as a "base camp" 1/
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Russia fired 8 cruise missiles at Vinnytsia airport and didn’t hit the runway at all.
For pretty much all purposes militarily, it is still functional.
Radar satellite image from yesterday shows in more detail the damage to #Vinnytsia Airport, which was hit by Russian missiles on Sunday. No apparent impact on runway. Analysis via @SteveDLF @JamesMartinCNS 🛰️📷 @capellaspace nytimes.com/live/2022/03/08/…
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First time in history a foreign leader was allowed to address both Houses of Parliament in British Parliament. Proud that this leader was the #PresidentOfUkraine @ZelenskyyUa
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Mom and dad are saying goodbye to their baby before leaving to defend their country.
#StandWithUkraine️
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Поговорив з @naftalibennett. Подякував за посередницькі зусилля Ізраїлю в налагодженні переговорного процесу. Обговорили шляхи припинення війни та насилля.
