Behavioural scientist Dr Gad Saad describes how people can be "parasitised" by “ideological worms”, which he discusses in his book, ‘The Parasitic Mind’. “It's parasitic because once you hold on to those beliefs, it is contrary to your best interest,” Dr Saad told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “In my book ‘The Parasitic Mind’, what I argue is that human beings can also be parasitised not only by actual physical worms, they could be parasitised by ideological worms. “So postmodernism, cultural relativism, radical feminism, transgender activism, the rejection of biology in explaining human behaviour, which I call biophobia. “All of these parasitic ideas, when put together, create the wokesters that you see walking around on university campuses.”

Herald Sun's Business Commentator Terry McCrann has slammed the Albanese government over Australia's growing migration crisis. “Absolutely zero thought behind what’s unfolded since the election," Mr McCrann told Sky News host Sharri Markson. His remarks come as Australia faces a growing migration and housing supply crisis. According to The Australian, the rate of migrants arriving into Australia are at nearly four times the pace which new homes are constructed. In other words, for the 900,200 permanent and long-term immigrants who landed between July 2022 and December 2023, only 265,000 buildings were built. “I mean if you had any sort of planning, any sort of thought process behind this you would have set and train policies which would enable the houses to be built to house these migrants,” he said.

Sky News Australia host Peta Credlin fears Kate Middleton is going to be hounded when she returns to the public eye. A new video has emerged of the Princess of Wales looking happy and healthy out shopping with her husband Prince William. “We saw a glimmer of her out today,” Ms Credlin said. “Putting paid to this idea that she’s in a hospital bed, in a coma or on life support. “I feel for her when she eventually comes back into the public square, she’s going to be hounded."

Sky News host Paul Murray says recent news about energy bill reductions is a “headline number” but the cost remains “way higher” than before Labor came to power. “While there is a headline number here, it only really applies to one part of the country,” he said. “Let’s not pretend this is touching the sides or going anywhere near reversing the increases that have been around for the past couple of years since this government came to power. “It could not be clearer, well done on a little bit here, or a little bit there. “The reality is, we are still way higher than we were when you came to office.”

Sky News host Rita Panahi says US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson “seems to not understand” the constitution she is meant to protect, following her comments on the First Amendment. This comes after Ms Jackson expressed concerns that the First Amendment was “hamstringing” the US government regarding the censorship of speech on social media. Behavioural scientist Dr Gad Saad says freedom of speech is a "deontological principle" because deontological ethics are "absolute statements of truth". "You never say 'I believe in freedom of speech'. But on the other hand, if your spouse asks you, 'do I look fat in those jeans?' Then you could put on your consequentialist hat, because then you might say, 'I'm going to lie to spare my spouse's feelings'. “But when it comes to foundational principles that are enshrined in the First Amendment, it has to be a deontological principle. And apparently our US Supreme Court justice is unaware of that distinction.”

Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s rationale for not lifting the ban on nuclear power is “hilarious”, according to The Australian’s Contributing Economics Editor Judith Sloan. Ms Sloan joined Sky News host Chris Kenny to discuss energy in Australia. “I thought his rationale for not getting rid of the ban was hilarious,” she said. “Which was to say, we wouldn’t want to get rid of the ban because those investors might be looking for government money. “Excuse me? There’s one estimate that puts the annual subsidy to the renewable energy sector at $16 billion per year.”

Shadow Immigration Minister Dan Tehan says businesses are still seeing “skill shortages” amid record levels of immigration. “There is no doubt that it is possible and entirely likely,” he said. “The government has not been able to put the policies in place to make it sustainable. “The big, big mess they have made when it comes to immigration is that businesses are still crying out for skilled workers. “Especially in regional and rural Australia they are still saying we need workers.”

The excitement around the computer chip maker Nvidia is ramping up even more with the announcement of a new flagship AI chip. Nvidia has just under 70 per cent of the market for GPU (graphic processing unit) chips. GPU is the key to high-speed artificial intelligence applications, and is responsible for propelling Nvidia to a stock market valuation of US$2.18 trillion - the third biggest in America. Nvidia's founder Jensen Huang unveiled the next phase of its development on Tuesday, a giant chip called Blackwell. The chip is named after David Blackwell, a mathematician and game theorist. The Blackwell B200 has 208 billion transistors, more than double the 80 billion on the company's previous chip. The announcement has IT giants, Meta, Google, and Amazon lining up.

Early Childhood Minister Anne Aly says the Albanese government is “laser-focused” on delivering cost-of-living for families. The government’s reformed stage three tax cuts passed Senate on February 27. “That’s why we took action to deliver cheaper childcare last year,” she said during Question Time. “Reforms that increased the childcare subsidy for 1 million families right across Australia. “Those reforms according to the ACCC reduced out of pocket expenses for centre-based care on average of 11 per cent.”

Sky News host Chris Kenny has broken down the news that power prices are on the way down for some, saying the Albanese government thinks it's "onto a winner". "The energy market operator has recommended small increases in some markets, but mainly some small reductions in retail power bills," Mr Kenny said. “Bowen seemed to misinterpret how good this news really was. “To understand how pathetic this looks, you'd first have to know how much your power bill was, you'd first have to feel the financial pinch when that bill goes up, and you'd have to remember one of Labor's central election promises. "If you're lucky enough to get this, it has to be judged in context – and that context firstly is Labor's promise to cut prices by $275 a year."

Over 450 Jewish actors, producers, creatives and Hollywood executives have denounced the ‘Zone of Interest’ director's controversial Oscars speech. When the director went up to accept his Academy Award, he delivered an acceptance speech about the Israel-Hamas war. Glazer’s speech was applauded but also met with a private outrage as many disagreed with the contents of it. The Hollywood industry workers released an open letter on Monday, denouncing Glazer’s Oscars acceptance speech. The list of workers contained the names of Jewish actors, producers, creators and executives. Producer of the hit TV series ‘Modern Family’ Ilana Wernick spoke to Variety about Glazer's speech and what led to the open letter. “His words sounded eerily similar to Vanessa Redgrave’s infamous ‘Zionist hoodlum’ speech. Only this time, there was no Paddy Chayefsky to stand up and say the right thing,” she said. “Sadly, Jew-hatred won the day. That’s why so many of us in the industry reached out to each other. It was a very sad, very scary night. Writing the letter wasn’t just cathartic for us. It’s something we had to do.”

Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has acknowledged there is “more work” to be done to bring down electricity prices after the Australian Energy Regulator revealed its default market offer. A majority of Australians living on the east coast could see reductions in their power bills this year after two years of price rises. The Australian Energy Regular announced on Tuesday the majority of households could see electricity price reductions of between 0.4 to 7.1 per cent from July 1. Mr Bowen attributed the reduction in power prices to the coal and gas caps, as well as international changes. “They are the result of getting more renewables into the grid Mr Speaker because renewables are the cheapest form of energy,” Mr Bowen said during Question Time.

Minister for Health Mark Butler says the Albanese government has “delivered on” the promise of cheaper medicine in Australia. Mr Butler said the government wants cheaper medicines and a “strong community pharmacy sector”. “Around two million Australians right now are paying up to 25 per cent less for their medicines every year,” Mr Butler said. “General patients are paying around twenty million dollars less for their medicines every single month. “The number of applications to open a pharmacy has been 50 per cent higher.”

Researchers have failed a lunar mission simulation due to an error made at the dome within the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation. Queensland University of Technology’s Quantum Cognition Researcher Lauren Fell joined Sky News Australia to discuss the details of the mission simulation. “It was on top of a volcano in Hawaii and it was in what’s called an analog lunar habitat so it simulates as best it can the conditions that you would have if you were living on the moon,” she said. “It really does feel like it, all around you is it’s volcanic so you can’t really see any people all around you so you really feel like you’re enclosed in this little dome that’s protecting you. “Essentially we live day by day and towards the end of the mission there was a mistake that was made – we were attempting to fix a heater and one of the people who were without a spacesuit inside the habitat unfortunately without thinking opened our airlock which would have exploded the whole habitat.”

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claims his government is “supporting pharmacists” to deliver more primary care services. Mr Albanese said this was something the Opposition spoke about but “never delivered”. “We’ve rolled out 58 urgent care clinics right around the country,” Mr Albanese said. “The centrepiece of our last budget was tripling our investment in bulk billing. “The only people who are still opposing are those opposite.”

A row has opened up between the Albanese government and the Opposition over whether the Coalition wants to receive legal advice about why the government has needed to release so many criminal immigration detainees. It follows revelations Attorney General Mark Dreyfus offered to provide a briefing with legal advice on why they had to release 149 detainees in December, and the Opposition declined to show up. Sky News Australia has obtained a letter from Michaelia Cash, Dan Tehan and James Paterson to Clare O’Neil, Andrew Giles, and Mark Dreyfus penned yesterday, where they asked for another briefing and have yet to receive a response. “We note your Government is now running arguments that the Coalition is refusing to be briefed in relation to your Government’s mishandling of immigration detainees,” the letter reads. “This is disingenuous. As you know, we accepted a briefing on these matters in December last year, but it rapidly became apparent your offers were not made in good faith, given that you launched public attacks on the Coalition over a ‘refusal to engage’ at the same time as negotiations over the logistics of a briefing were ongoing. “It is very disturbing to learn that there is the risk further detainees will be released into the Australian community on your Government’s watch and that your public response appears to be to blame the courts and now the Coalition in relation to a refusal to be briefed. “We write now to seek a briefing on recent developments in relation to your government’s further mishandling of released immigration detainees and upcoming cases in the High Court. “Specifically, we write to seek a briefing on the Government’s proposed approach to the ASF17 case, listed for a hearing in the High Court on 17 April 2024, and the proposed legislation that the Government intends to introduce. . . We are happy to make ourselves available for a briefing ahead of Question Time today.”

A promise from the Albanese government is “not worth the paper it’s written on”, says Shadow Housing Minister Michael Sukkar. His remarks come as Australia faces a growing migration and housing supply crisis. “We’ve got migrants running at four times the number of homes being built,” Mr Sukkar told Sky News Australia. “We’ve got migration over the past 18 months of about 900,000 – we’ve got about 250,000 homes built. “We’ve now got new home builds at nearly 20-year lows at a time when migration is being ramped up, so that is squarely in the government’s control.”

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Redbridge Group Director Simon Welsh says the “erosion of the two-party vote” maybe “extending” into diverse communities. Mr Welsh’s comments come after Inala and Ipswich by-election which saw a swing against Labor. “One of the bastions of that loyal party vote had been these culturally diverse communities,” Mr Welsh told Sky News Australia. “We’ve now seen through the 2022 election … it now looks like that diverse voter cohort is now on the move. “This erosion of the two-party vote may even be extending into these diverse communities.”

Redbridge Group Director Simon Welsh says housing will play a “big role” in the Tasmanian electorate. Mr Welsh said a lot of groups have told him about the housing crisis “in and around Hobart”. “There’s an Airbnb problem that’s sort of driving rents and housing affordability in the North. “It’ll be one of those background issues that feeds into what we’re expecting to see in the broader picture. “It’ll be sort of this background effect that’s feeding into this plunge that we’re expecting to see on the major party votes.”