EU votes through largest ever Russia sanctions list
"This is the single largest expansion of our sanctions list since Russia started its war," chief EU diplomat Kaja Kallas said, adding that more than half of the roughly 1600 listings "are connected to...
Russia says Europe bought $320 billion in hydrocarbons since 2022
Russia said on Monday that European Union countries had bought $320.7 billion worth of its energy resources since 2022, despite sanctions over the war in Ukraine. The figure fuelled tensions as European officials criticised a US deal to import Russian diesel, while Stockholm called for the bloc to use frozen Russian assets to boost support for Kyiv.
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If you’re over 55 and too tired to make it into the office, these two Fair Work decisions are required reading | Van Badham
The industrial tribunal is where the human experience of fatigue and the mythologies of outdated management cultures are brought into sharper view A decision last week about work-from-home accommodations carries implications far beyond the modern workplace and into the realm of a refreshingly material understanding of existential limitation. It was only in July that Australia’s Fair Work Commission rejected the request from a full-time council employee, Steven Polak, to reduce his days in the office from two a week to one. Polak argued that as he was over 55 and experiencing a work-related fatigue his obliged commute was exacerbating. Continue reading...
Vikki Campion, News Corp columnist and wife of Barnaby Joyce, begins role with NSW One Nation
Campion, who married federal One Nation MP Joyce in 2023, confirms she started working for the party’s state executive this week Vikki Campion, the News Corp columnist and wife of the federal One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce, has begun working as an advisor for the party in New South Wales ahead of the March state election. Campion, who assisted the NSW One Nation leader and candidate for Cessnock, Mike Newman, with a press conference in the Hunter electorate on Tuesday, told Guardian Australia she had started working for the party’s state executive as a contractor on a part-time basis this week. Continue reading...
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