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Welcome to SBS News in Easy English. I'm Deborah Groarke.
A family forced out of their Queensland home four years ago and put into immigration detention is going home today.
The Murugappan family will be leaving Perth and going back to Biloela.
They will be home in time to celebrate their daughter Tharni's fifth birthday on the 12th of June.
The family wants to spend a few days settling back in before making a public appearance on Friday.
Australia's Prime Minister and the leader of Indonesia have held their their first meeting in Jakarta.
Anthony Albanese is there to talk about trade, climate change, and postgraduate scholarships for Indonesian students.
He says he wants to make the relationship Australia has with Indonesia even better.
"Indonesia is on track to be one of the world’s five largest economies. Revitalising our trade and investment relationship is a priority for my Government. And it’s why we plan to work with Indonesia to realise the potential of the Indonesia‑Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement."
Australian Federal Police say they are going to focus on organised crime groups in Australia, because they are worried the Mafia is using Australia to launder billions of dollars every year.
Assistant Commissioner Nigel Ryan says that according to the information they have received, local Mafia groups have been bringing a lot of drugs into and out of Australia, but not being noticed by authorities because they live very simply, in modest houses.
Mr Ryan says the police cannot afford to ignore the problem.
"Unleashing this next phase will be long and challenging, but the AFP is up to the challenge. And to be frank, we need to be. If we don't cut off the head and tail of organised crime, we face living in a very different Australia."
The Reserve Bank is expected to increase interest rates today.
And homeowners are being warned that interest rates are likely to keep going up.
It would not be by much - perhaps 25 points - but that could be enough to add hundreds of dollars to a mortgage payment each month.
Analyst Tony Sycamore says the Reserve Bank is likely to do what other banks around the world have done.
"We are in an inflationary environment and we are also are in an environment of aggressive central bank rate hikes: BOC, RBNZ, Federal Reserve. The RBA will probably toe the line in that respect as well."
In the United States, politicians in the Democratic party are trying to introduce laws on gun control.
That is because there have been a lot of mass shootings lately, and they want to see access to certain powerful guns restricted to stop the shootings from happening.
The opposing party in Congress are the Republicans, and they are not expected to support even the most modest proposals.
But Senator Chris Murphy says they have to at least try.
"We are in very real discussions right now to try to craft a bill that will make a difference. And the only way that we are going to get that across the finish line is for all of you to be persistent, for every single one of you that's here today to go home and recruit a couple more of your friends to be part of this cause."
The leader of the Labour Party in England says he is angry about the result of a confidence vote against British prime minister Boris Johnson.
Mr Johnson got enough votes from his own party to remain in office.
But Labour party leader Keir Starmer says Conservative MPs have gone against what the public wants.
"The British public are fed up, fed up, with a Prime Minister who promises big but never delivers, fed up with a Prime Minister who has presided over a culture of lies and law breaking at the heart of government, fed up with a Prime Minister who is utterly unfit for the grea t office that he holds."
I'm Deborah Groarke. This is SBS News in Easy English.
