NSW Nationals MP Wes Fang says Kathleen Folbigg has lost some of the “best years of her life” in prison being wrongly prosecuted and convicted. Kathleen Folbigg is still waiting for a decision over her compensation, 18 months after being released from jail. Mr Wang says the Minns Labor government has “shut the door” on Kathleen Folbigg’s legal team. “The least that Chris Minns can do is provide her some comfort so that she can live out the rest of her life knowing that she doesn’t have to worry about these matters.”

Kathleen Folbigg is still waiting for a decision over her compensation, 18 months after being released from jail. She was released in June 2023 after serving 20 years of a 25-year sentence. The 57-year-old was pardoned after doubt was cast over the deaths of her four children. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Ms Folbigg says the drawn-out process has rubbed “extra salt” in the wound. NSW MPs allegedly broadly support an "act of grace" payment which could tally into the millions.

Sky News contributor Joe Hildebrand has slammed the Democratic Party for relying on identity politics to savour the immigration debate during the presidential election, calling the practice a racist and eugenicist “prism of thinking”. Mr Hildebrand’s comments follow the appointment of Tom Homan as President-elect Trump’s border czar. The veteran immigration official will oversee US borders after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025. “The one demographic that is hurt the most by unchecked illegal immigration is poor working people,” Mr Hildebrand told Sky News hosts Liz Storer and James Macpherson. “This is why the Dems lost in a landslide – they were not representing the interests of working people, and it is pretty clear they didn’t even know or care. “The biggest threat to low-income Hispanic workers in America legally is low-income, low-skilled Hispanic workers entering America illegally. “They [Democrats] are so absolutely racist in their virtue that to them, they [immigrants] just all look the same. “That’s a disgusting way to look at people. “This is why this result is and must be the death of identity politics once and for all.”

Sky News political contributor Chris Uhlmann delivers a sneak peek into his upcoming documentary which investigates ‘The Real Cost of Net Zero’. “It can’t work without a dispatchable fuel source, at the moment it’s coal,” Mr Uhlmann said. “If we’re going to replace that, it will have to be something like gas.” The exclusive Sky News Australia documentary is set to air on Tuesday, November 19 at 8pm.

Author Douglas Murray has ripped into MSNBC host Joy Reid over her comments about Donald Trump as he branded her a “race baiter”. He accused her of causing “racial division” in the United States and claimed she is one of the few people doubling down on ethnic voters who voted for Mr Trump in the election. “I don't see a future for people like her on the media. Their ratings are horrible and their behaviour is much more horrible and so no wonder people are turning off,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has stressed the importance of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese developing an early, positive and “mutually respectful relationship” with President-elect Donald Trump. “I hope Anthony Albanese can do that,” Ms Ley told Sky News Australia. “I hope … Anthony Albanese gets this right because the personal relationship between those two individuals is the one that matters.”

Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's meeting with President-elect Donald Trump early to get Australia a tax exemption should be at the “top of his priority list”. “It is vital that we have a relationship that allows the mutual respect that we had previously and addresses issues such as tariffs,” Ms Ley told Sky News Australia. “He knows what’s going on in the communication channels between the two countries. “He should place this at the top of his priority list.”

Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says she wants Australia's Ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd to succeed in the “national interest”. “Because a strong relationship is in our national interest both economically and with respect to our security and the security of the world,” Ms Ley told Sky News Australia. “I wish Kevin well … because when he does well as our ambassador, Australia does well with respect to our relationship with the US. “He’s been working hard; he needs to continue to work incredibly hard.”

Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “should be in parliament”. “He should be addressing the issues that are vital for the Australian people,” Ms Ley told Sky News Australia. “A Prime Minister should stand in question time and answer questions from the opposition, I haven’t seen much of that for the last two and a half years – I’ve seen a lot of ducking and weaving and dodging of the questions."

An almost 16-metre sperm whale model has been displayed on the shore of the Caspian Sea in Baku. Artists unveiled the life-sized whale carcass ahead of climate talks in Azerbaijan to bring awareness to environmental destruction and climate change. World leaders including Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will meet in the city to discuss climate concerns during the COP-29 summit.

US President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly selected Marco Rubio as his incoming Secretary of State. It would make him the first Latino to be appointed to America's top foreign affairs job. Other members of the new Trump administration include Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff, the first woman in that position.

India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during an interview with Sky News host Sharri Markson was asked whether India was worried Donald Trump would impose trade tariffs on goods. Mr Jaishankar appeared to avoid the question claiming Trump’s intentions to impose tariffs were “hypothetical”. “We don't in my business do hypothetical stuff. … we'll see what happens,” Mr Jaishankar told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

US President-elect Donald Trump has announced Tom Homan, the former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as the incoming ‘border czar’. Mr Homan will be the central figure in fulfilling Trump’s key election promise of curbing the flood of illegal immigrants. Illegal immigration was one of the key issues Mr Trump based his campaign on.

India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has defended India's ties with Russia, stating that its relationship has been helpful to the international community. Mr Jaishankar argued that India's energy purchases from Russia have prevented a global energy crisis and that India's position allows it to mediate between Russia and Ukraine. “What India has done and is doing with Russia is actually, in my view, helpful to the international community as a whole,” Mr Jaishankar told Sky News host Sharri Markson. “If we had not made the moves we had, let me tell you the energy markets would have taken a completely different turn and actually would have precipitated a global energy crisis. It would have caused inflation across the world as a consequence. “Equally, it is the fact that we have today a good relationship with Russia that allows us to be, in a way, a country in between which has the ability to both talk to Russia and to Ukraine and to try to find some intersection in those conversations. “I think the world, including Australia, needs such a country which will help to bring this conflict back to the conference table.”

India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has discussed the recent geopolitical climate with Sky News host Sharri Markson. “In a globalised world that if I am dependent on you, if you have a big market share in my country, it's important that economics and trade remain what they are, if they are leveraged if somewhere they become pressure points,” Mr Jaishankar told Sky News host Sharri Markson. “You can understand there'll be a natural anxiety. “I think today there's a simple proposition as much for nations as for individuals. The world will treat you depending on how you behave. “You behave well, you know, everybody wants to do more with you. If you are seen anywhere as a risky proposition, if people get anxious, people start to hitch, countries start to hitch.”

Sky News contributor Joe Hildebrand says the New South Wales government have announced “more penalties” for climate activists disrupting trains. “They have just announced yet more penalties, more penalties for climate activists who disrupt major public infrastructure,” Mr Hildebrand said. “This time they are coming at them for the trains.”

Christian preacher Dave Pellowe says he could “never apologise” for pursuing truth with sincerity and good faith. “Never apologise to the woke mob, I mean that is a good political principle even if you are not a Christian,” Mr Pellowe said. “I was being asked to apologise for and get re-education on the things one person believed I had gotten wrong about truth but Christian doctrine informs the truth and that is really the point of free speech.”

Sky News host Liz Storer the New South Wales government is “adding a fee” to existing laws over rail protesters as they could face fines of $22,000 for disrupting major infrastructure. “The current punishment is up to two years in jail already,” Ms Storer said. “The Minns government has just slapped a possible $22,000 fine on top of that.”

Former speaker of the House Bronwyn Bishop says Marco Rubio is an “excellent choice” for US Secretary of State. “Remember what happened when he [Donald Trump] was elected in 2016? The thought hadn’t gone into it, but it has this time,” Ms Bishop said. “Rubio is an excellent choice, and I think the choices he’s made to date are excellent choices.”

Sky News host James Macpherson has called out the climate hypocrisy from climate activist MPs. Climate activist MPs have been found to own ‘at risk’ waterfront properties. Mr Macpherson said their credibility is at the “bottom of the ocean”.