Sky News host James Macpherson says Harvard University students are “going nuts” as they take down the US flag to be replaced with a Palestinian flag. “Harvard University, I mean they are going nuts,” he said. “They have replaced a US flag with a Palestinian flag. “When you have got American kids replacing the stars and the stripes with the Palestinian flag we should all be worried. “They don’t just hate Israel, they hate the West.”

Sky News contributor Joe Hildebrand says the Olympics should just give a free pass to anyone who wants to compete in the Paris 2024 games in light of them bending the rules for Palestinian athletes. Olympics chief Thomas Bach has announced Palestinian athletes will be able to compete in the Paris games regardless of qualification. “I give up,” Mr Hildebrand said in response. “There should just be no rules anymore, open up to anyone. “Men, women, trans, whatever; clean, drug users … just everyone.”

Sky News host Chris Kenny has expressed disgust at how children cheered for intifada at a Sydney University pro-Palestinian protest on the weekend. “Kids cheering for Intifada? That is cheering for armed uprising, that is kids chanting for the type of conduct that led to terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, the slaughter of innocents," he said. He said the “indoctrination and exploitation” of children in the protest has been “trumpeted” and led by Macquarie University academic Randa Abdel-Fattah. “Just terrible – makes you wonder what is happening at out universities, and in some homes, when children are roped into this sort of hateful protesting. “Again, we need much stronger leadership from our politicians calling this stuff out."

Human rights activist and transsexual Miranda Yardley argues “all” transgender women are male. Ms Yardley argued against the need for preferred pronouns, which are usually viewed as inclusive and welcomed by the trans community. “The whole idea of transgender is wholly a political position,” Ms Yardley told Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi. “It is a use of language that is an attempt to conceal from the individual. “To take that individual, and plant in peoples minds that the person they are talking about is in some level a woman, and to therefore effect the way that people see that person.”

Sky News host Sharri Markson has called for the Prime Minister to act after text messages allegedly revealed a teen terror cell, and in a separate incident children chanted for intifada at a pro-Palestinian protest. A group of teenagers allegedly called themselves ‘soldiers of Allah’ and claimed they were ready to die and kill, and also allegedly spoke of getting hold of guns and looking for abandoned houses to use. Further, at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Sydney on the weekend, children were filmed chanting anti-Israel slogans. “Despite these shocking allegations – both about the alleged teen terror cell and the children chanting hate - we've heard no outrage from the Prime Minister,” Ms Markson said. “Imagine if children were chanting racist slogans that offended Indigenous Australians or the Islamic population? You know he wouldn't be silent then. “His leadership on this is non-existent. It's continued disappointment from a failure of a Prime Minister who has let us down, over and over and over again, in the past seven months.”

Sky News contributor Prue MacSween says the Labor government’s tax cuts “won’t buy us an ice-cream”. Ms MacSween blasted the government for using taxpayer dollars to spruik their plan for tax cuts. “Meanwhile, the fuel excise is still as high as it ever was,” she told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “They talk and talk about how they understand what we’re all going through. “This is why people are so fed up with this government because they’re all talk, and it’s all baloney.”

Academic psychiatrist Dr Andrew Amos agrees with calls for greater scrutiny of gender clinics in Australia. Gender clinics in Australia are maintaining the use of radical hormone treatments during gender treatments, despite a landmark review in the UK leading the country to ban them for use under the age of 18. Freedom of Information applications showed authorities in Australia are not tracking what child is getting what drug, as well as having minimal information of birth sexes. “Data is absolutely the lifeblood of that type of system,” Mr Amos told Sky News Australia host Peta Credlin. “That’s generally implemented at state level. “One of the problems of this situation with gender medicine is the lack of information which we’ve been provided makes it very difficult for outsiders to understand who exactly is responsible for reporting in this area. “Ultimately somebody in New South Wales Health has to be responsible for what is going on at Maple Leaf House.”

Grattan Institute Energy Program Director Tony Wood says the government “hasn’t done a very good job” of engaging with local communities on the transition to renewables. Mr Wood joined Sky News Australia to discuss the Grattan Institute’s new report on Labor’s “ad hoc” and “uncoordinated” net zero strategy. He pointed out new transmission for renewables will need to be put in places where “people don’t like the look of it”. “It’s not the most attractive thing you’ve ever seen,” he said. “We haven’t done a very good job of engaging with local communities.”

Vapes are a product “so deliberately targeted” at young people, says Health and Aged Care Minister Mark Butler. His remarks come as nine out of ten stores are located within “walking distance of our schools”. “I am worried there is a generation on vapes,” Mr Butler told Sky News Australia. “But what I’m not willing to do is raise the white flag and say there’s nothing we can do about it, we’re just the government. “What we’re hearing from parents and school communities is that urgent need for action here. “They are reporting this as the number one behavioural issue in our schools.”

Liberal MP Aaron Violi says Australia is “paying the price” for two years of inaction by the Albanese government. This comes amid discussions of the upcoming budget and criticisms of the current government’s policies. “They weren’t prepared to make the hard decisions in their first two budgets,” Mr Violi told Sky News Australia. “Now we are in this really tricky position where inflation is entrenched at 3.6 per cent. “They are a dollar short and they are a day late on all the economic challenges that the Australian people face.”

At least five people have been killed and 33 have been injured by a tornado in the major Chinese city of Guangzhou. Authorities say more than 140 factory buildings were damaged. No residential houses were destroyed. Emergency management, water and health services were sent to the city's Baiyun district to complete search and rescue work. Hailstones with diameters up to five centimetres also battered other parts of the Guangdong province.

Grattan Institute Energy Program Director Tony Wood says Australia “underestimated” how difficult and challenging the renewable transition would be. Mr Wood joined Sky News Australia to discuss the Grattan Institute’s new report on Labor’s “ad hoc” and “uncoordinated” net zero strategy. “It was underestimated how difficult and how challenging this was going to be for three or four reasons,” he said. “In the first phase of the renewable transition, we could just get connect wind farms and solar farms where there was already capacity on the existing transmission grid. “Now we’re getting to the stage where that transmission capacity has been exhausted and we have to build new transmission."

Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has hit back at Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor who said Treasurer Jim Chalmers needs to deliver a structural surplus in the upcoming federal budget. “Angus Taylor is setting tests for the government that they never met themselves,” Mr Jones told Sky News Australia. “They promised surpluses for nine years and never delivered one. “What’s Angus Taylor’s alternative plan? “He’ll have his opportunity Thursday week to set that out.”

Sky News host Paul Murray says the cost of living crisis is causing more Australians to be “frustrated” and “discombobulated”. According to data released by Finder, credit card spending hit an all-time high of $35.5bn in January 2024. The report also found that four per cent of credit card holders had increased their limit to afford a more expensive lifestyle. “About half of the country believes we are headed in the wrong direction,” Mr Murray said. “Most people assume that to be the economy, but I think if we are being really honest it is about literally everything, it is about society, it is about values, a whole collection of things.”

Cosmopolitan Magazine is returning to Australia for the first time in six years. “We are a magazine publisher through and through and to be able to add Cosmo to our stable is so exciting,” KK Press Publisher Katarina Kroslakova told Sky News Australia. “Everyone’s pumped, everyone’s revived. “We’ve been getting such amazing feedback from advertisers, from readers, from fans on social media this morning – my phone has been going nuts. “It’s an icon, it’s an icon since 1965.”

Australians lost a combined $2.7 billion to scams in 2023 which is down from $3.15 billion in 2022. A report from the ACCC showed more than 600,000 reports being made as the dollar figure declined for the first time in seven years. “Obviously delighted that the losses have come down, they were doubling every year,” Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones told Sky News Australia. “But $2.7 billion – every one of those dollars is a personal crisis. “A dollar that couldn’t have afford to have been lost.”

Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor slams Labor’s handling of the economy and the “huge amount of waste from this government”. These comments are in relation to the upcoming federal budget in May. Mr Taylor admonished Labor’s spending such as the “$450 million dollars for a failed referendum". He also said in an interview with Sky News Australia that the Coalition “want to see a sustainable NDIS”. “The government has only indicated it wants to spend more.”

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has upset the organiser of the ‘No More’ rally against men’s violence in Canberra over on Sunday. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has upset the organiser of the ‘No More’ rally against men’s violence in Canberra over on Sunday. The rally was attended by 5,000 people. The Prime Minister addressed the crowd, saying he wouldn’t be allowed to speak. One of the protest organisers, Sarah Williams, called this comment out as a lie. She then became quite emotional and had to be comforted by those around her.

Sky News host Paul Murray has commended Harvey Norman and Chief Executive Katie Page for being “absolutely invested” in making sure regional Australian women have “phenomenal opportunities”. “Harvey Norman are the reason that we’re able to travel all around the country, and Katie Page and their leadership team are absolutely invested in making sure that women in regional Australia have phenomenal opportunities,” Mr Murray said. After a 10-year pilot program with Auburn Girls High School in Sydney, Harvey Norman, this month, launched a scholarship program with Western Sydney University. $7.9 million will be delivered to the Young Women’s Leadership Academy over the next 10 years, to help increase the social, economic and educational participation of young women. “We’re 100 scholarships in, and the stories are fabulous,” Ms Page told Mr Murray. “It’s refugees, it’s disadvantaged women, it’s also high achieving women, so it’s across the board.” In partnership with Harvey Norman.

Elon Musk is on a mission to save free speech. The billionaire tech tycoon is battling governments around the world in a bid to save free speech on his social media platform, X. The notoriously disagreeable CEO is refusing to budge on calls to censor content from Brazil and Australia, with governments from these countries going to extreme lengths to hold Elon Musk and X to account. Sky News All-Stars Peter Stefanovic, Liz Storer and Caleb Bond take a look at Elon Musk's latest battles.