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Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson says the bipartisan condemnation of the Greens’ involvement in Gaza protests has come “eight months too late”, despite it being a "very welcome move." Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton united in parliament to condemn the Greens' involvement in pro-Palestinian protests, accusing the party of inflaming tensions of social cohesion. “I think it’s very welcome that the major parties stood up and condemned the Greens,” Mr Paterson told Sky News Australia. “Although frankly I think it’s eight months too late. “The Green’s have been engaged in totally unprincipled, and dangerous escalation of rhetoric around the conflict in Gaza here in Australia.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the West about using all available means, including nuclear weaponry to defend its sovereignty. When questioned about the risks of nuclear war over Ukraine, Mr Putin said Russia's nuclear doctrine permits the use of weapons in response to a number of threats. He says the West has repeatedly accused Russia of threatening to use nuclear but claimed the accusation was wrong and instead brought attention to America’s use of nuclear in World War Two.
Two Queensland government-owned electricity generators are facing a class action over prices. CS Energy and Stanwell Corporation have been accused of artificially inflating energy market prices for their own profit between 2015 and 2021. Both companies are yet to outline their defence, but have rejected the allegations of manipulation. It is Australia’s largest energy class action, representing about 40,000 customers.
US President Joe Biden has arrived in France to attend D-Day commemorations this week. But his cognitive performance is once again in the spotlight. It follows a new report by the Wall Street Journal which revealed the 81-year-old is showing signs of slowing down during private meetings.
King Charles has led commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The King and Queen appeared emotional as veterans recounted their stories. Hundreds of troops reenacted the aerial liberation over the sky of Normandy.
ABC’s radio shares are in “rapid decline,” according to Sky News host Liz Storer. The station dropped to a 5.6 per cent share which is their worst result since 2004 as listeners tune out of the ABC’s programs. “Last September, it was reported that their radio share in Melbourne had gone down by 40 per cent, in Sydney by 35 per cent in just three years – well, that is a nosedive in ratings by any metric,” Ms Storer said.
Shadow Environment Minister Jonathon Duniam discusses the underwhelming results of urgent care facilities across Australia. “The money that they pumped into these urgent care clinics has not yielded benefits,” Mr Duniam told Sky News host Steve Price. “This Canberra-based solution that they've come up with is not helping Australians access the health care they need. “Frankly, the only people that miss out are the people whose primary health care concerns are not being dealt with.”
Business columnist Terry McCrann discusses the stagnation of the Australian economy for the fifth consecutive quarter. “We have a very messy economy,” Mr McCrann told Sky News host Sharri Markson. “We have an economy which is very sick, it’s not performing, it’s not growing. “It's basically standing still.”
Sky News host Caleb Bond says OpenAI is trying to create an artificial “general” intelligence. “What OpenAI is trying to create is called AGI, artificial general intelligence,” he said. “The difference of course … is the ‘general’ bit, meaning stuff that a human can do.”
Former Labor senator Stephen Conroy discusses the stagnation of the Australian economy for the fifth consecutive quarter. “They (the RBA) are driving the economy into the ground,” Mr Conroy told Sky News host Paul Murray. “It is time to start backing off before you send this county into a recession.”
Save Gundary Plains Action Group Chair Stan Moore has warned that energy giant BP’s solar farm proposal will “destroy the landscape”. Energy giant BP is proposing to build a huge solar farm consisting of more than 740,000 solar panels that will blanket hundreds of acres of prime grazing land. “Their site is amongst 106 family homes,” Mr Moore told Sky News host James Macpherson.
Sky News host Paul Murray has broken down the latest US polls that have come out after Donald Trump’s hush money case. “Trump nationally, 41 – (Biden) 39, and because Kennedy is riding at the best part of 10 per cent, there has not been a big change in the overall mix,” Mr Murray said. “The most recent poll ... show Trump winning in Arizona, in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia. “If that all comes true, he gets to 270 votes nice and easy.”
The people of Macnamara “want a change”, says Liberal candidate for Macnamara Benson Saulo. “Over 100 years this seat has been held under Labor,” Mr Saulo told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “They feel like they have been taken for granted, they feel like the seat has been overlooked, it has not had the leadership they need and deserve, and I think they are looking for a change.”
Save Gundary Plains Action Group Chair Stan Moore says solar farms will “destroy the environment”. “It’s supposedly to help the environment, but it’s going to destroy the environment,” he told Sky News host James Macpherson. “They not only delude the existing country to level it ... but they will skim the top of it; they remove existing trees.”
Nigel Farage announced his political comeback on Tuesday “vowing to take on the Tories himself”, says Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi. “The television presenter and Brexiteer also reclaimed his leadership of the right-wing Eurosceptic Reform Party,” Ms Panahi said. “Who has been giving the Conservative Party trouble ever since their founding in 2018 as the Brexit Party.”
Shadow Immigration Minister Dan Tehan discusses Australia’s per capita recession which is now in its fifth consecutive quarter. “People are feeling very, very hardly done by the government,” Mr Tehan told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “The Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the government as a whole doesn’t seem to have any answers to what is happening.”
Broadcaster and former Brexit Party member Alex Phillips has revealed the “inside track” on what led to Nigel Farage returning to politics. “The Party had actually asked me at one point to stand in Clacton,” Ms Phillips told Sky News Australia host Ria Panahi. “I had been having conversations with Nigel about it and then decided against it actually because I need to focus on my podcasting career.”
Wordsmith and broadcaster Kel Richards reveals the origins of the phrase ‘sticky beak’. “The nice thing about ‘sticky beak’ is it’s an Australian coinage – we came up with this one,” Mr Richards told Sky News host Steve Price. “It just comes from the fact that beak for a long time has been a synonym for nose and so it just attacks those people who stick their noses in where we don’t want them to stick them.”
One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has urged Australians to stop voting for the “same idiots all the time” as the country suffers through a per capita recession. “We are in a recession, but we’ve only been propped up because of the high immigration levels coming into Australia,” Ms Hanson told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “Your cost of living is escalating because you don’t think what the policies are. “Why keep voting for the same idiots all the time .. we are getting a bigger mess year after year after year.”
One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson says the NDIS scheme has “blown completely out of proportion”. It has been revealed that two billion dollars of NDIS funds have been spent on fraudulent expenses including cars, drugs and alcohol. “It is such a scam ... and it’s not even means tested,” Ms Hanson told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “You’ve got multi-millionaires that are actually on this. “They are all scared to do anything about it because they will lose the voters out there.”