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United States President Donald Trump says his government will punish Vladimir Putin if Russia's President does not agree to stop the Ukraine war after they meet tomorrow.
Mr Trump is meeting with Mr Putin in Alaska on Friday.
Ukraine's president has already spoken with Mr Trump and met with European leaders.
Mr Trump says tomorrow's meeting is important.
"If the first one goes ok we will have a quick second meeting between President and President Zelenskyy and myself if they would like to have me there. And that would be a meeting where is may absolutely work. But the first meeting might not work that out. Certain great things can be gained in the first meeting. It's going a very important first meeting. But it's setting the table for the second meeting."
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Minister for Workplace Relations Amanda Rishworth says the Federal Government has made laws which allow people to have more flexible working hours.
Ms Rishworth says the extra flexibility laws created in the government's last term have already enabled workers to choose flexible working hours.
"We want to make sure that the industrial relations framework allows employers and employees to work on flexible arrangement, as long as people don't go backwards to their pay. And of course, those arrangements are underway, and we will continue to work across the board when it comes to reinvigorating enterprise bargaining."
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In two years, the number of young people in detention - in prisons or youth jails in New South Wales -has risen by 34 %
60 per cent of those youth are Aboriginal.
Jackie Fitzgerald is the Executive Director of the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistic and Research.
She tells SBS the data is alarming, but there is no simple solution.
"I think we need to look at all stages of the process that lead young people being in custody. So crime prevention strategy to reduce offending, early intervention and looking at children with concerns that might put them in the way of the criminal justice system in the future, and then making sure that we also got good therapeutic support for young people who do start to offend, so we can make sure that option last it all at custodial episode is something we can avoid."
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Opposition leader Sussan Ley says the toxic algal bloom off South Australia's coast, is a national disaster.
The algae has killed tens of thousands of marine animals already and Ms Ley says more must be done.
"We need all hands on deck here we need the Labor Party in South Australia, and we certainly need the Labor Party federally because Murray Watt can turn up with a clipboard and a whole packet full of red tape, but he's not actually supporting these communities. This is a natural disaster. It's a national disaster, and it's a nationally significant disaster. "
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That's the latest SBS News in Easy English.
