Sky News host Paul Murray discusses the Commonwealth Bank customers introduction of a brand-new withdrawal fee for customers. Commonwealth Bank of Australia is facing backlash after it revealed it would charge customers $3 for taking out money at a branch, post office or by phone. “Your money, your bank, they hit you with a fee,” Mr Murray said.

Menzies Research Centre’s Freya Leach has hit out at the “ridiculous” prices Australians have to pay to enjoy a night out. The conservative activist unleashed on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on social media, claiming Australians are “literally poorer” under his government. “It would take us, after tax, about two hours or more for the average person to be able to afford a night out,” Ms Leach told Sky News host Paul Murray. “Not a crazy night – a parmy and a beer at a pub.”

Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage has shut down rumours he would be heading to the US to become an ambassador. “There is no chance,” Mr Farage told Sky News host Paul Murray. “I understand they (Labour) want me out of the way, I understand they’re very scared of me. “I get the idea, let’s bott him over there and get rid of him but it isn’t going to happen.”

Sky News host James Macpherson says economists are warning Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s plan to subsidise childcare will be a “massive impost” on the taxpayer. “Anthony Albanese has planned to subsidise childcare so parents are only paying $10 a day, the rest of course will be paid by the taxpayers,” Mr Macpherson said. “Economists are warning this is going to be a massive impost on the taxpayer.”

Sky News host James Macpherson discusses how a Canadian town was fined $10,000 for refusing to celebrate Pride Month. “The town’s councillors who voted against Pride Month have been ordered to undergo human rights training,” Mr Macpherson said. “I promise you; we are not making this up.”

Nationals Senator Matt Canavan discusses Australian household power prices going up despite Labor’s investments into renewable power. “People can see with their own electricity bills, the power prices going up,” Mr Canavan said. “Despite investment in renewable energy.”

Sky News host Andrew Bolt discusses the “whole mess” of Labor’s transition to renewable energy. “I see a crisis here, coal-fired stations going out of business, most will be gone over the next ten years,” Mr Bolt said. “Not enough wind and solar to replace them in fact wind and solar just can’t provide the steady reliable electricity our system needs.”

Sky News contributor Chris Uhlmann has called out Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen for “gaslighting” the Australian people. “Chris Bowen may take people for mugs but I don’t believe that they are,” Mr Uhlmann told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “If he keeps gaslighting people like this, he’s just digging an enormous hole for himself and the Labor Party come the next election.”

Sky News contributor Chris Uhlmann reacts to news wealthy foreigners are funnelling huge sums of money to the Environmental Defenders Office. His remarks come after a Federal Court judgement ordered the EDO to cover the legal costs of Santos after trying to shut down a gas project in Australia’s north. “It’s part of a project in the end to cut off our natural resources – things that we make all of our export income from,” Mr Uhlmann told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

Herald Sun’s Susie O’Brien discusses whether the Reserve Bank has got the “balance right” amid Australia’s cost of living crisis. The Reserve Bank of Australia will undergo its biggest overhaul in decades after Labor struck a deal with the Greens to split the bank into separate committees. “Once upon a time, everyone supported the Reserve Bank and we didn’t really question the decisions that they made,” Ms O’Brien told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “That time is now over – well and truly.”

University of Sydney Political Scientist Simon Jackman says Joe Biden’s pardon for his son Hunter is “hypocritical”. US President Joe Biden has signed a pardon for his son Hunter after he was convicted of gun-related charges and pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion charges. Mr Jackman told Sky News Australia there is a long line of US presidents who “pardon family members” in the dying weeks and months of their presidency.

The US has announced it will send Ukraine $US725 million of missiles, ammunition, anti-personnel mines and other weapons, ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The new weapons package is set to help the country's war against Russia which has allocated around $US126 billion in its new defence budget. The package comes amid speculation about what Trump’s new administration will mean for Ukraine as the President-elect has promised to end the conflict.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is facing backlash after it revealed it would charge customers $3 for taking out money at a branch, post office or by phone. The change comes into effect on January 6, however, hundreds of customers have complained on social media, labelling the new fee a scam and reverse bank robbery. It comes after the bank posted a $9.5 billion profit earlier this year.

The View has been dealt another humiliating blow as Sunny Hostin was forced to make yet another apology live on air, this time, to Pete Hegseth.

Shadow Energy Affordability Minister Melissa McIntosh claims Labor’s “excuses have dried up” when it comes to the energy crisis. Ms McIntosh’s remarks come after it was revealed a record number of Australian households have been forced to take up energy hardship plans. “The excuses have dried up, and the cracks that were forming in the energy policy for the government are now great big holes,” she told Sky News Australia.

Sky News host Andrew Bolt has labelled US President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter as “sleazy and deceitful”. It comes as the outgoing leader of the free world made the announcement on Monday through a White House statement, saying he did not want to impede the Justice Department’s decision-making, but it was “clear” his son was “treated differently”. “What hypocrisy; Joe Biden had said again and again he would not pardon his son; his spokesman was still claiming that three weeks ago,” Mr Bolt said. “There is, in fact, a double hypocrisy here. Donald Trump was sure singled out for prosecution by Democrat prosecutors, including ones in Biden’s own administration, for alleged crimes and almost no one else would have been charged over and now Democrat politicians are fuming that Biden has handed Trump another moral victory.”

Liberal MP Andrew Wallace claims the social media ban for under 16-year-olds provided Australian parents with a “great deal of relief”. “There’s a great deal of relief from mums and dads … and across the country with these reforms,” Mr Wallace told Sky News Australia. “Parents have been screaming out for assistance from the government for more than a year, longer than that. “I’m pleased we got there in the end; I’m very pleased that we’ve got some additional protections in relation to privacy.”

EY Oceania chief economist Cherelle Murphy claims the Reserve Bank of Australia may start to “get a little bit worried” after President-elect Donald Trump announced a suite of policies. “I think we’re likely to see something towards the middle of next year, but I have to say that with the election of President Trump and a suit of policies which look to be very inflationary ... the Reserve Bank may start to get a little bit worried about that,” she said. “So, by the time that we’re ready to lower rates because domestic factors have eased, it is possible we’re being hit by another sort of ... inflationary pressures from overseas so we’ve got to watch that.”

Nationals Senator Matt Canavan has likened the Albanese government’s Nature Positive bill to “putting the foxes in charge of the chicken coop”. “It’s effectively putting the foxes in charge of the chicken coop,” Mr Canavan told Sky News Australia. “What this will do is put activist bureaucrats in charge of every project in this country. “We just saw a small window into that when the current minister of environment, who seemed to be doing a good job imitating an activist, stopped a billion-dollar gold mine because of concerns about a mythical bee. “It’s not even an impact on a bee; it’s an impact on a story about a bee.”

A record number of households have taken up energy hardship plans as cost-of-living pressures continue to rise. Sky News Political Correspondent Olivia Caisley says energy bills, in particular, are “really biting”. “The amount of people that need help with payment plans has risen from 96,000 to 130,000 over the year from June 2023 to June 2024,” Ms Caisley said.