Former US president Donald Trump received enormous applause at a UFC event on Sunday. Mr Trump attended UFC 302 in New Jersey and was welcomed with a standing ovation by the thousands of fans in attendance. The former president walked through the crowd, shaking hands with fans before sitting cageside with UFC President Dana White.

Robotics Australia Group Chair Sue Keay says Australia was the first country in the world to “automate our ports”. Ms Keay told Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood Australia was also the first country in the world to automate its mine sites. “All of that automation was based on Australian-developed technologies.”

Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor claims bracket creep is “taking from the pockets” of Australians. Mr Taylor told Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood the best way to beat bracket creep is to “get inflation down”. “There is so much pain being felt right across the board because of raging inflation.”

Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to a young man trying to convince a “queer fat club” to let him join the group. Jo said told the group on a video call he goes by he/they pronouns and “identifies as 275 pounds”. One of the group members told the young man the group was just for fat-bodied people before he argued back, saying he was a fat-bodied person.

Fitch Ratings’ head of sovereign rating APAC Jeremy Zook says he still expects the RBA to cut interest rates this year. “We still expect them to cut in November, we see sort of that tightening that has happened in the past still feeding through to households,” Mr Zook said. “Households are still seeing interest rate payments rising and that’s eating into their ability to go out and very much tightening domestic demand, we think that will be sufficient to bring down inflation. “We think the RBA will use that and cut rates in November.”

Public servants have come under fire after signing an open letter calling for the federal government to cease military exports to Israel. Liberal Senator Dave Sharma expressed outrage over the situation claiming public servants are supposed to be apolitical. Several hundred public servants from across Australia signed the open letter calling for the federal government to 'immediately cease all military exports to Israel'. “This is not what a public servant is meant to do, public servants are meant to serve the elected government of the day,” Mr Sharma said. “It’s unbelievable, it’s outrageous.”

Sky News host Rita Panahi has mocked Canadian MP Laurel Collins after she got emotional when talking about a “climate emergency”. Ms Collins claimed climate emergencies are not “gender neutral” with the degradation of ecosystems disproportionately impacting women and girls. “I am wildly emotional, this is the existential crisis of our time,” the Canadian MP said.

Sky News host Rita Panahi says Robert De Niro is suffering from “Trump derangement syndrome” as she reacts to the actor’s meltdown outside of a Manhattan courtroom. Donald Trump was found guilty of falsifying accounting records to cover up the payment of a bribe to adult film star Stormy Daniels for electoral purposes on Thursday (local time). A few days before the verdict, De Niro claimed people could “kiss freedoms goodbye” if the former president wins the upcoming election. “The obsession, the derangement is weapon grade,” Ms Panahi said.

Sky News host Rita Panahi warns conservatives must not dismiss the “culture war” battles as they will impact them and their families “whether you like it or not”. It follows reports a daycare forced a three-year-old child to apologise for the Stolen Generations. “You better get interested if you actually care about these consequential issues because they not going to go away,” Ms Panahi said.

Pastoralists and Graziers Association WA President Tony Seabrook says farmers are “dead angry” at Agriculture Minister Murray Watt. More than 1,500 trucks and farm vehicles clogged major roads in Perth in the ‘Keep the Sheep’ movement. They are calling for a rollback of the decision to ban live sheep exports which was announced earlier this month. Mr Seabrook told Sky News Australia the Agriculture Minister is “against” farmers.

Sky News host Rowan Dean highlights how activists are actively trying to “destroy the planet to save the planet” with a new construction project in Mexico. Mexico’s new Maya Train project is designed to loop around the country’s southern Yucatan Peninsula but there are concerns it could damage underground cenotes. There are approximately 10,000 subterranean caverns, rivers and lakes beneath the peninsula which could be under threat, according to AP News.

Sky News host Rowan Dean has slammed a daycare for forcing a three-year-old child to apologise for the Stolen Generation. A father shared his frustration with 2GB radio host Ben Fordham as he called the move “outrageous”. Mr Dean claimed it was “child abuse” and accused the daycare of trying to “brainwash” children.

Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says the redistribution of electoral boundaries announced on Friday will give Labour another seat in Western Australia. On Friday the electoral boundaries for the next election were drawn up in Victoria and WA. “Much of the publicity since has been around the Victorian Labor seat of Higgins disappearing but the changes has brought down the margin in Shadow Housing Minister Michael Sukkar's seat of Deakin to 50-50 and given Labor a show in the seat of Menzies,” Mr Clennell said. “Liberal sources have spoken about the potential to win up to four seats in WA but … would require very big swings, well above the national average.”

Britain's main political parties launched their battle buses as they tried to get their messages out to voters ahead of the election. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has portrayed Sir Kier Starmer as a weak leader saying that Labour's deputy leader is the one really in charge. Labour unveiled a bright red vehicle emblazoned with the word 'Change' in attempt to get their messages out.

Millions of Mexicans are expected to head to the polls on June 2 to pick their next president in the country’s largest election in history. Recent polls suggest the country is set to elect its first-ever female president. Polling reveals that former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum is the front-runner and that her main rival is Xóchitl Gálvez.

Experts are calling for a social media tax loophole to be closed. Meta moves more than $1 billion a year in ad revenue from Australia to Ireland, making an estimated $262 million in tax benefits. It's prompted calls for the platform to pay taxes on profits earned in the country. There has been a call for Meta to use the savings from the tax dodge to increase online safety.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in Singapore for the Shangri-La Dialogue conference. It's expected he will meet U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and discuss support for Ukraine in his country's war against Russia. In a statement released on X, the Ukraine President has referred to Russia saying: "Global security is impossible when the world's largest country disregards recognized borders, international law, and the U.N. Charter, resorts to hunger, darkness, and nuclear blackmail."

The NSW government has bemoaned potential for a “lawyers’ picnic” after Ku-ring-gai Mayor Sam Ngai announced a fight against housing reforms feared to overshadow local heritage sites, explains New South Wales Political Reporter Julia Bradley. Mayor Ngai has promised his campaign against the government's signature housing reforms will save his community in the long run. NSW Premier Chris Minns remains adamant the days of "everybody passing the buck" on housing development are over. Ku-ring-gai is hoping to present its own proposal where the housing projects could be shifted to more developed areas and avoid heritage conservation areas.

Tech Guide Editor Stephen Fenech says research shows Gen-Z are receiving notifications every eight minutes which is contributing to “phone anxiety”. “They are thinking they are always on call,” Mr Fenech told Sky News Australia. “That is why this feeling is building.”

New Zealand Finance Minister Nicola Willis says the government is “feeling really good” after presenting a budget which “delivered on our core commitments”. “We are managing the books more responsibly, delivering tax relief and investing in core frontline services,” Ms Willis told NZ correspondent Jack Nyhof. “We are doing what we said we would do and what will rebuild the New Zealand economy.”