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Welcome to SBS News in Easy English, I'm Camille Bianchi.
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The Australian Government has changed plans to allow first home buyers to pay as little as five per cent in a deposit to buy a home.
Originally planned for January, it will now come into effect in October.
Housing Minister Clare O'Neil says young people need help to buy a property.
"This policy is going to have a hugely meaningful impact for the people who choose to use it. What we know is that it is incredibly challenging for this younger generation to get into home ownership. We are seeing young people having to save 8 or 9 years to build a deposit. With the 5 per cent deposit program that our government is expanding, we see that timeline brought back to two or three years."
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The organisers of pro-Palestinian marches say Australians’ support for the cause has reached a record high.
In Sydney, members of Jews Against the Occupation joined pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
One member says her relatives, who died during the Holocaust, would expect her to protest against genocide.
"This war, this war, this genocide, is being done in our name. But the Jewish Voice and Judaism is not about genocide. That's not at all our value. I'm here because my family, way back, was destroyed in the Second World War.
Many members and they would turn around wherever they are to tell me, now you have to be here to prevent another genocide."
Israel strongly denies it is carrying out a genocide.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader says his country will never agree to United States demands over its nuclear program.
The country could be penalised if it does not agree to meet with United Nations members on this issue.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the United States government is being disrespectful.
“This issue of negotiation with America is unsolvable. The President of the U-S wants Iran to obey America’s orders.
The Iranian nation is deeply offended by such a great insult and will stand up, with all its strength, to those who hold such misguided expectations.”
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One of Australia’s most famous female killers is returning to court today.
Erin Patterson will see her surviving victim and the families of three people she murdered with toxic mushrooms.
Ian Wilkinson and relatives of the three victims are expected to deliver statements.
50-year-old Patterson was convicted of three murders and one attempted murder.
In 2023, she served a beef Wellington with poisonous mushrooms, to her estranged husband’s family.
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That's the latest SBS News in Easy English.
