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Welcome to the latest SBS News in Easy English - I'm Camille Bianchi.
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The Coalition has changed its plan to stop government workers from working-from-home if it is elected in May.
The political party has also changed its plan to cut 41,000 federal government jobs.
A spokesperson says the party listened to community feedback and changed its mind.
They say they now understand flexible work options benefit everyone.
Coalition leader Peter Dutton told Channel 9 they made a mistake - and it is time to move forward.
"We're listening to what people have to say. We've made a mistake in relation to the policy. We apologise for that. We've dealt with it. But we're not going to be framed up by a prime minister that has a real problem with the truth. What we've said is we've listened to Australians, and we've made it very clear that work-from-home is a reality for many people. For our friends, for people in our workplace - and we're supportive of that so Labor tried to twist it into something. And I think we just clarify our position today."
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Four workers have been hurt in a coal mine collapse at Douglas Park in south Sydney.
Two of those workers are in hospital but are expected to recover.
A gas pipe bursting is believed to be the reason for the mine collapse on Sunday morning.
The New South Wales resources regulator has started an inquiry.
Federal Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt says all Australians need a safe workplace.
"I know that the New South Wales regulator is now going to be investigating. We look forward to seeing the investigation results, but right now, I think what we need to do is focus on the workers, their families and their colleagues, and everyone will be wishing them the best. "
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Charities say heavy rain and extreme heat could create a cholera disease outbreak after a deadly earthquake in Myanmar.
Many residents are living outside, after their homes were destroyed by the quake.
The World Health Organisation's global lead on cholera, Dr Philippe Barboza, says cholera has killed thirteen hundred people this year.
"The recent earthquakes pose a risk to further fuelling the outbreak of cholera and other diarrhea disease. Since July 2024, 12,000 acute watery diarrhea cases were reported from the country, including in the Mandalay region, which has been very severely affected by the earthquake."
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Pope Francis was in Saint Peter’s Square for a special mass for the sick.
It is his first public event at the Vatican, since being in hospital with pneumonia.
The Pope smiled and waved from a wheelchair before he said hello to the clapping crowd.
The Pope prayed, and then went through the Holy Door to greet people who had travelled to meet him.
One of them was Jessica Cardenas from the United States.
"It was a beautiful experience. I started crying, I never imagined I would be able to be here, and it was, I don't know how to explain it. It was just a feeling that I have no words for it. It was beautiful, it was beautiful.''
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This month will mark 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War.
That is also when 3000 babies and children were rescued from Vietnamese orphanages in helicopters.
Dr Indigo Willing was adopted from Vietnam three years before the end of the war.
"Some of the findings that really were quite sad is the isolation and loneliness that a lot of the Vietnamese adoptees felt growing up. Not knowing other Vietnamese people, even if it was adoptees, and then this double blow, when they did find Vietnamese people, that they didn't connect with because they didn't know the language or the culture necessarily. So, it was sort of like a double loneliness."
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That is the latest SBS News in Easy English
