The Coalition has rubbished new modelling which shows its nuclear power plan could add more than $600 a year to household bills. “The Coalition says it’s not even close but is still yet to offer a figure of its own for how much the nuclear power plan would cost broadly but also at a household level,” says Sky News political reporter Cameron Reddin. “This new analysis done by an American think tank attempts to put a price for household power bills on how much the Coalition’s plan to build nuclear reactors at seven sites across the country would cost individual households. “The number it has landed on is $665 additional every year – that’s largely to cover the cost of construction.”

The Bank of England has held interest rates steady following Thursday's move by the US Federal Reserve. The bank's board voted eight to one to keep rates at five per cent. The Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey believes UK rates will begin to come down if inflation remains low. Last month, the bank lowered interest rates for the first time since the COVID pandemic - dropping rates by 25 basis points.

There are concerns Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's nuclear plan could lead to widespread blackouts. According to modelling released by Energy Minister Chris Bowen - the Coalition's plan could result in demand-supply gaps of up to 49 per cent. He is releasing the data ahead of the Opposition Leader's speech spruiking Nuclear in Sydney on Monday. The Coalition claims their nuclear, gas and renewables mix is needed to prevent power outages.

The decision to break with the US for a third time in a UN vote on Palestine has drawn criticism from the Coalition and Jewish leaders. The Labor government abstained from voting and has been accused of prioritising electoral politics over national interest. The Greens have also condemned the decision, calling the government 'gutless fence-sitters' as Australia joins 43 countries who also abstained from the vote. A new Muslim movement and the Greens have raised concerns within the government about a potential pro-Palestine electoral backlash.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has described Israel's attacks on Lebanon as a massacre. 37 people have been killed after personal pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in Lebanon. Mr Nasrallah made an address saying Israel had crossed "all the red lines". Israel says Hezbollah will pay an increasing price as Israel seeks to return residents to its north.

Sky News contributor Joe Hildebrand discusses Prime Minister Anthony Albanese being “blindsided” leading to a heated exchange with ABC Radio National host Patricia Karvelas. “I suspect that it was just something that wasn’t on his radar,” Mr Hildebrand said. “He was sort of blindsided ... and thought … I’ve just got try and shut this down and move on.”

With less than 50 days to the US presidential election, former president Donald Trump called on New Yorkers to get their “asses out to vote." "Harry get up Harry, Harry get your fat ass out off the couch you're gonna vote for Trump today, Harry," Trump said during a rally. Sky News host James Macpherson, Liz Storer and Sky News Contributor Joe Hildebrand weighed in on Trump’s comical speech to motivate voters to get out and vote.

Sky News host James Macpherson discusses Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s heated exchange with ABC Radio National host Patricia Karvelas. “He would’ve gone on ABC expecting to be given a soft ride, easy questions,” Mr Macpherson said. “Is this a sign that Anthony Albanese is feeling the pressure and sensing that he’s in trouble?”

Former Victorian Liberal Party President Michael Kroger says the high immigration levels to Australia are causing the “housing crisis” to worsen. Mr Kroger told Sky News host Paul Murray that the public have worked out that the immigrants “have to live somewhere”. “Albo’s got himself to blame on this and so many other issues.”

Sir Keir Starmer has been critised after his government revealed that they have decided against adopting the Italian-style approach of intercepting migrant boats in the channel and turning them back to France. According to Immigration Minister Dame Angela Eagle, the French don't accept that migrants should always be returned to them. If incidents happen in French territorial waters, they go back to France. If they happen in British territorial waters, we bring them into safety in the UK. Sky News host Liz Storer discussed the decision made by Keir Starmer’s government to not turn back migrant boats. “The UK just seems to be so reticent to do anything about what is a ginormous problem,” Ms Storer said. “Nigel Farage must be ripping his hair out with this latest announcement.”

Israeli writer and journalist Yossi Melman warns Israel would have to counter Hezbollah if the organisation were to retaliate after the latest exploding device attack. “Israel and Hezbollah are already in a tit-for-tat clash … on both sides of the Lebanese border,” Mr Melman told Sky News host Gabriella Power. “The two sides are trying to act in measure and now it is escalating. “Hezbollah after the shock and trauma in the last two days after these explosions would retaliate and they would have to retaliate heavily and then Israel would have to counter. “We are really very close to a war.”

Former Secret Service special agent Charles Marino has highlighted a “failure in leadership” from the federal agency and called for it to undergo a thorough review and potential transformation. Mr Marino referred to the two failed assassination attempts on former president Donald Trump, saying it showed a failure in the overall security plan of the Secret Service. “They have failed to apply the proper resources that are necessary,” he told Sky News host Gabriella Power. “They have failed to recognise the significance of the threat level towards the former president well in advance to these attempts taking place and I can tell you that the feeling is, including my own, is that it is time for the agency to overgo a thorough review and, if necessary, a thorough transformation.”

Former US president Donald Trump joked that “golf is a very dangerous game” during an appearance on Fox News late night show Gutfeld. Mr Trump and Fox News host Greg Gutfeld made quips about the Republican presidential candidate’s latest apparent assassination attempt. Mr Trump was playing golf in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday (local time) when a gunman was spotted by the Secret Service as little as 300m away from the former president.

Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer has warned that there’s “a lot on the ballot” this November when Americans vote in the US presidential election. “It is a tragedy of the highest order that we are about to decide a monumental, pivotal election,” he told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power. “We have a lot on the ballot this November – if Kamala Harris becomes president of the United States, we’re not going to recognise this country, I fear. To God help us.”

Sky News host Rita Panahi has hit out at US mainstream media coverage of the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump. It comes as conservative watchdog group Media Research Centre found that despite a second attempt on Donald Trump’s life, the bulk of the mainstream media in the US has not lowered the temperature on its anti-Trump coverage. In the first 72 hours following the second assassination attempt on the former president, 95 per cent of (American) ABC, CBS, and NBC’s portrayal of Trump was negative. “That’s quite remarkable because this is such an astonishing event to occur, to have an attempt on a candidate’s life, a former president, to have it happen twice in two months,” Ms Panahi said. “Yet still no sympathy, no, okay, maybe we should stop calling him a threat to democracy. None of that. It’s just doubling down.”

Fresh GDP figures from New Zealand show the country’s economy is moving backward. Despite the negative growth, recent interest rates are fueling business confidence. Sky News New Zealand correspondent Jack Nyhof says the economic statistics are “gloomy”. “Regional New Zealand is getting hit by a downturn,” he said. “The latest GDP data shows the economy shrunk by 0.2 per cent in the last quarter.”

Author Douglas Murray has called out left-wing media outlets for telling Donald Trump to tone down his language after facing two assassination attempts. Mr Murray encouraged the Democrats and the media to “tone down” their language about the former president being a threat to democracy. “I would like to think that if there had been two attempts on the life of Kamala Harris in the last few weeks that you would not find what right-wing media there is in America saying, ‘Well, she brought it on herself’,” he told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “I mean, that's a quite amazing thing with recent days in relation to Donald Trump, the left-wing media in America actually saying, ‘yeah, here's another assassination attempt on him, but maybe he shouldn't use such dirty words’. “I find that astonishing.”

Australian families are expected to transfer three-and-a-half trillion dollars worth of wealth between generations over the next twenty years. Baby boomers have accumulated most of this wealth and are already starting to distribute it to their children. Grant Thornton Head of Family Business Consulting Kirsten Taylor-Martin explained why this is significant for the Australian economy. “At the moment, only 12 per cent of family businesses successfully transition to the third generation, and only one in 20 families transition more wealth than what they inherited,” Ms Taylor-Martin told Sky News Business Reporter Edward Boyd. “So, if we don’t get this right, the stakes have just got a whole lot higher ... for the economy, we could have a lot more businesses go bankrupt, and that could cause unemployment.” In partnership with Grant Thornton.

Former Secret Service special agent Charles Marino has branded Iran the “neighbourhood troublemaker” of the Middle East after Iranian hackers stole classified information from Donald Trump's presidential campaign. The information was reportedly sent to individuals affiliated with Joe Biden's campaign in June and July. US officials believe the hackers work for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “Iran has filled that vacuum right now in terms of the neighbourhood troublemaker and it's no surprise that they would try and compromise the Trump campaign," he told Sky News host Gabriella Power.

Former Secret Service special agent Charles Marino has analysed where the Secret Service succeeded and failed in protecting Donald Trump amid the two recent assassination attempts targeting the former US president. “Unfortunately, the success came at the inner perimeter of the former president's protective detail who are with him all the time and travel with him,” he told Sky News host Gabriella Power. “Whenever you see that inner perimeter of that protection detail have to react and respond the way they did in these two latest attempts, that means something has failed and failed horribly wrong in the overall security plan.” Mr Marino highlighted a “failure in leadership” from the Secret Service and called for the federal agency to undergo a thorough review and potential transformation. “They have failed to apply the proper resources that are necessary,” he added. “They have failed to recognise the significance of the threat level towards the former president well in advance to these attempts taking place and I can tell you that the feeling is, including my own, is that it is time for the agency to overgo a thorough review and, if necessary, a thorough transformation.”