Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says the interim supermarket review is a “smokescreen”. The review was conducted by economist and former Labor minister Craig Emerson. “It’s a smokescreen … because the government is trying to hide the fact that under its watch your grocery bills have gone up by more than 20 per cent,” he told Sky News host Paul Murray. “That’s just on the ABS figures. “I mean for some certain products in your trolley – they’ve gone up by much more than that.”

Headline Advisory Director Andrew Carswell says Labor’s “true colours” are being shown with Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s “conditional” support for Israel. “The true colours are being shown here,” he said. “Penny Wong was longing for, she is not on their side of Israel. “Her support for Israel has always been conditional. “It has always been measured.”

‘To Di For’ podcast host Kinsey Schofield says Princess Kate’s parents are trying to deal with their severe debt crisis “in private”. Her comments follow reports from The Times that the royal’s parents Carole and Michael Middleton are in severe debt due to their party business. “What we do know is that the Middletons are attempting to pay this off,” she told Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi. “It’s not like they’re not trying to, they’ve also not asked … any of their children – James, Pippa, or the Princess of Wales for any sort of help whatsoever and they certainly haven’t reached out to the British Royal Family to ask for help. “It’s something that they’re trying to deal with in private.”

Sky News host Paul Murray says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is still “licking his wounds” in the loss of the “$450 million” Voice to Parliament referendum. “The government was not that amazing, in fact, opinion polls have shown that up to 80 per cent of Australians believe the government was not doing enough when it came to the cost of living,” Mr Murray said. “When it came to the number of people that had been let into the country … all voters, Labor voters, Coalition voters and anyone else all believe that the immigration levels were too high. “59 per cent according to the Resolve poll. “The prime minister still licking his wounds from spending $450 million of your money, not on fixing the streets of Alice Springs … to get his moment in history.”

Strategic Analysis Australia Director Peter Jennings says the Albanese government “desperately” needs to look at its response to the issue people smugglers. A group of people, reportedly Chinese nationals, were located in remote Western Australia on the weekend. The boat's arrival is understood to be the third illegal maritime landing on Australian soil in under six months. “It’s not just accidental that three boats have arrived,” Mr Jennings said. “What that probably means is that more are on the way or will be soon.”

Sharri exclusively reveals Israel may block Australia's special advisor in investigating the air strike which killed aid workers in Gaza. Plus, Geoffrey Majzner, brother of a Hamas victim, joins live from Tel Aviv. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

Australian Jewish Association Dr David Adler says Australian politicians are not siding with Israel for a “political advantage”. Mr Adler joined Sky News host Chris Kenny to discuss the six-month anniversary since Israel declared war on Hamas for the terrorist organisation’s attacks on October 7. “There’s something quite deep going on here,” he said. “If you are from an ideology that is into any of the ‘isms’ – socialism, communism, Islamism, in other words, ideologies that are opposed to Western civilisation which is based on Judeo-Chrisitan values. “Then almost reflexly, consciously or unconsciously, you attack the place where the Judeo-Christian values began, which is Israel.”

Sky News host Rita Panahi slams a “pathetic” women’s basketball coach over her “coward” response when asked about trans inclusion in women’s sports. Dawn Staley, the head coach of the University of South Carolina women's basketball team, was asked about the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports. "I am under the opinion [that] if you are a woman, you should play. If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play,” Staley said. Ms Panahi criticised the coach for being a “reality denier” as she threw female athletes “under the bus”. “Women cannot compete against men and to pretend otherwise is to deny reality,” she said. “Men are stronger, faster, bigger and its unfair on female athletes to ask them to compete against male bodies.”

Former immigration minister Philip Ruddock has slammed the Albanese government as “foolish” for sending a message to people smugglers. A group of people, reportedly Chinese nationals, were located in remote Western Australia on the weekend. The group has since been sent to Nauru. The boat's arrival is understood to be the third illegal maritime landing on Australian soil in under six months. “The situation under Labor was going to be different to what it was under the Coalition,” Mr Ruddock told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “All that does is send a message to the people smugglers that they have got an opportunity to be able to sell the opportunities to get on boats at a cost. “It’s obvious that it works.”

Former immigration minister Philip Ruddock says Australia’s approach to immigration should be to take those “most in need”. A group of people, reportedly Chinese nationals, were located in remote Western Australia on the weekend. The group has since been sent to Nauru. The boat's arrival is understood to be the third illegal maritime landing on Australian soil in under six months. “You don’t get most in need if you’re getting the people who are on boats who have got money to pay a people smuggler,” Mr Ruddock told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “To put them in the front of the queue, to ensure that others who have a greater priority for a place are left out.”

Independent economist Warren Hogan says consumer sentiment has improved “across the board” as talk of rate cuts increased over the summer. There is more evidence today that interest rate cuts are further off than many anticipate. “The key driver is actually that the worst of the adjustment to higher interest rates is behind us,” Mr Hogan said. “Maybe, especially when it comes to SMEs which tend to be more consumer-facing businesses, maybe the household sector is starting to loosen the purse strings a little bit earlier in 2024. “I would not be concerned about business needing to see rate cuts to keep things ticking over.”

Former Labor Senator Graham Richardson says Israel has been an “ally of Australia forever”. Mr Richardson told Sky News Australia that Australia was there in 1948 when the Arab-Israeli war started. “And we’ve been there in every war since. “I can’t see that changing.” Mr Richardson's comments come after the IDF killed an Australian aid worker in Gaza.

Former Labor Senator Graham Richardson says he has “doubt” of any changing relationships between the Australian and Israeli governments. Mr Richardson told Sky News Australia that the relationship has been strong “for the best part of 50 years.” “It’s not going to change in any great hurry. “It can’t change in many respects. “We are tied together, and we’ll stay together.”

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has claimed Labor’s appointment of former ADF chief Mark Binskin as a special advisor is “political”. The appointment comes after Israel killed seven aid workers in an airstrike in Gaza. “What the Prime Minister is doing here is trying to find a pathway through what’s obviously a torn ALP,” the Opposition Leader said during a media conference on Monday. “What we’ve seen here by the Prime Minister is a political response. “Frankly, while Mark Binskin is an excellent public servant and is beyond reproach an incredible individual, he’s been given mission impossible by this Prime Minister.”

Australia, the US, and the UK are expected to announce they will launch formal talks to collaborate with other countries on advanced defence technologies, with a strong focus on working with Japan. “A great idea and remember it’s not to do with the nuclear submarines if I can make that obvious point, it’s to do with technology transfer and co-development,” said former Howard government minister Peter McGauran. “It does send a strong message to China, the inclusion of Japan will not be missed by China, to put it mildly,” Mr McGauran told Sky News Australia. Former Labor advisor and Hawker Britton Director Simon Banks said Japan is a “really obvious first and natural additional partner to the trio that we currently have”. “I actually hope we think about whether there are other Western nations who can suitably join this partnership as well,” he said. “The more we work together, the better we have a good and effective defence, the less likely it is that the things that we don’t want to have happen will happen.”

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has confirmed he will not endorse Joe Biden again after publicly supporting him for president during the 2020 election. During a wide-ranging interview with Fox News, the actor and wrestler said endorsing Biden in 2020 caused an "incredible amount of division in our country". "Am I going to do that again this year? That answer's no. I'm not going to do that," he told host Will Cain. "Because what I realised that what that caused back then was something that tears me up in my guts back then and now, which is division. And that got me. "The takeaway after that months and months and months, I started to realise like, ‘Oh man, that caused an incredible amount of, division in our country.’ "So I realise now going into this election, I'm not going to do that. I wouldn't do that because my goal is to bring our country together. I believe in that, in my DNA. So in the spirit of that, there's going to be no endorsement."

A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely at an airport in Denver, Colorado, after the engine cowling fell off on Sunday. The cowling ripped off the engine and struck the plane’s wing flaps during takeoff. The Southwest aircraft returned to Denver International Airport around 8:15am local time before being towed away. Flight 3695, which initially departed from Houston, Texas on its roughly two-and-a-half-hour trip, carried 135 passengers and six crew members, no one on board was injured. Southwest Airlines has stated they will review the plane and have confirmed they are in charge of maintaining its parts. “We apologise for the inconvenience of their delay but place our highest priority on ultimate safety for our customers and employees,” they wrote in a statement.

The initial findings of an independent supermarket review suggest larger fines, Anthony Albanese has confirmed his government's commitment to the Operation Sovereign Borders policy, there are concerns interest rate cuts could be delayed, NDIS is providing millions of dollars in support funding to sex offenders, Japan is in talks to join AUKUS, and China has approved a the first two- passenger multicopter aircraft. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes argues Immigration Minister Andrew Giles' immigration policies are being used to people smugglers’ advantage. The remarks come as a boat carrying 13 asylum seekers showed up on Western Australian shores on Friday. “I’m pretty sure there’s a big old picture of Andrew Giles in people smugglers’ businesses saying we welcome you with open arms,” Ms Hughes said. “We know that that is Mr Giles' political leanings. “He worked in defence of those on the Tampa. “His heart's not in this portfolio, and I still cannot believe that Mr Albanese is leaving him in place.”

Sky News host Paul Murray says it has been a “massive week” at the newspaper The Guardian. Guardian US columnist Margaret Sullivan says Donald Trump’s success in swing state polling is due to a “failure of the press”. “Because they are so fair when they talk about on TV, aren’t they?” Mr Murray said. “Yeah it’s the media – what about the fact that just people are being polled, they know what’s going on. “I don’t think the media is the problem here.”