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The head of Ukraine’s embassy in Australia says he cannot remain “diplomatically polite” when his parents spend their nights in a bomb shelter in Kyiv, and has called for the Russian ambassador to be expelled. Volodymyr Shalkivskyi issued the plea to the Australian government as he spoke about how his parents, aged in their 70s, had rebuffed suggestions to flee Ukraine’s capital and were now asking for molotov cocktail recipes. “They’re making sandwiches [for] our military and they spend the nights in bomb shelters,” Shalkivskyi, the charge d’affaires at Ukraine’s embassy in ...
<strong>Tuesday</strong>: Sydney’s trains to return with limited services amid ongoing industrial action dispute. Plus: machetes and divvy vans at Painters and Dockers’ worst gig
<strong>Friday: </strong>Former Australian Democrats leader joins campaign for independents to oust Liberal incumbents. Plus: Midnight Oil announces final tour
Under the voter ID laws, people would have to show their ID to cast their ballot at the election, which could exclude Indigenous people.