Author Alan Lawrenson has claimed that the Snowy Hydro 2.0 project won't generate a megawatt of power. “I don’t think Snowy Two will ever generate a megawatt of power,” Mr Lawrenson said during an interview on 2GB. “I don’t think it will ever generate power,” he said. “That’s my personal view, and by the way recently I was at a conference, and I discussed with a number of energy experts that I wasn’t alone in that assessment.”

Former Labor Senator Stephen Conroy says he doesn’t “have a problem” with the AEC wanting to make sure Australian voters aren’t misled online. Australian Election Commission boss Tom Rogers said there had been a trend among social media organisations to moderate misinformation in the “public square”, rather than have it removed from their platforms entirely. Mr Conroy told Sky News host Paul Murray that there is an increase in “online propaganda” interference on Australian elections from third-party state actors.

Sky News host Andrew Bolt has taken aim at “hypocrite” Anthony Albanese after the Prime Minister refused to comment on the ICC’s findings against Israel but was happy to talk about Julian Assange’s court case during the same press conference. “The International Criminal Court overnight put a bomb under Israel,” Mr Bolt said after Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan ruled Israel guilty of genocide and requested warrants for the arrest of Israeli leaders. Mr Albanese refused to comment on matters before the court when pressed on his opinion of the ICC’s ruling but several minutes later gave a lengthy answer on the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. “What a hypocrite he is – can’t remember what he just said two minutes before,” Mr Bolt said.

The Times of London Columnist Melanie Phillips has unleashed on the ICC for an “obscene moral equivalence” made during a ruling which saw Israel accused of genocide. “The prosecutor has made a really obscene moral equivalence between the genocidal attackers who launched their appalling pogrom against the Israelis on October 7 and Israel’s defence of itself,” Ms Phillips told Sky News Australia host Andrew Bolt. “What the prosecutor has done in requesting these arrest warrants is to do so by using a set of lies – of the kind that we have seen enflame mobs around the world. “Every single one of those accusations is a lie. “Israel is not starving the Gazans – it is bringing in vast amounts of aid.”

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the pro-Palestine encampments across Australian universities are a result of “anti-Israel extremists”. Mr Bolt said the protestors on university campuses have “screamed at Jewish students”. “Invaded classrooms, chanted for the genocidal destruction of Israel from the river to the sea, and for an intifada.”

Telecommunications expert Paul Budde says Telstra “lost sight” 10-15 years ago and missed out on becoming a tech company. This comes amid questions about Telstra’s plan to cut 2,800 jobs this year as accepting defeat in the space. “If you go back … 15 years ago, Telstra was actually fighting against the internet, against smartphones,” Mr Budde told Sky News Business Editor Ed Boyd. “It tried to protect its lucrative phone business and basically lost sight. “So basically, it missed those opportunities 10-15 years ago to become a tech company and it now basically remains a utilities-based company.”

Former Labor MP Michael Danby has criticised Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after he refused to comment on the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor seeking warrants against Israel’s Prime Minister. “It is the triumph of international woke lawfare,” Mr Danby told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “If Albo can’t see that, then he doesn’t understand the implications for Australia or any democratic society that has a natural right of self-defence.”

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Radio host Stephen Cenatiempo says the Albanese government got elected with “no policies to speak of” and then asked themselves “what do we do now?” “They haven’t been able to develop any as we have gone along,” Mr Cenatiempo told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “This is a Prime Minister, I get the impression he never ever really believed he was going to be Prime Minister and, now that he is there, he doesn’t know what to do with the office.”

Hard Rock International has denied it is linked to any proposal to buy the struggling casino operator Star Entertainment Group. This is despite The Star saying on Monday it had received an approach from a consortium of investors, including Hard Rock Hotels and Resorts Pacific, which The Star said was a local partner of Hard Rock. The Star's shares jumped 20 per cent yesterday after the market closed.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is “out of his depth”. “We want a priority involved for people in the construction industry to be bought in because we’ve got building approvals at an 11-year low,” he said during a press conference on Tuesday. “Why the Prime Minister is bringing in a million people when you’re only building 250,000 homes, and the problem compounds each year. “I just think it’s the Prime Minister who is out of his depth and doesn’t have the strength or the capacity to make the decisions in our country’s best interest.”

The Reserve Bank minutes show the board considered lifting rates earlier this month but decided to hold the cash rate steady. While inflation had risen more than expected in the first quarter, CPI was still on a downward pathway. “Inflation was still declining towards the target, and the recent information did not materially alter its trajectory,” the minutes said. “Holding the cash rate steady could be an appropriate way to mitigate the risk that the labour market is already close to full employment, which would bring inflation back to target somewhat sooner than envisaged.”

Writer and Broadcaster Esther Krakue discusses US President Joe Biden’s address at Morehouse College, which contained a dark message about US democracy. “It’s not exactly the best sales pitch you’d expect someone running for reelection,” Ms Krahue told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “Joe Biden, we have to remember us at Morehouse College, which is a college in the swing state of Georgia, which is one of the key swing states, that the Democrats are actually seeing nudge more and more towards Donald Trump. “You don’t really want to be told after spending all that money that the country that you hope to succeed in is against you, but he really has no other card to play.”

Headspace’s Head of Clinical Leadership Nicola Palfrey says we shouldn’t ban children on social media. This comes amid concerns over the use of social media by children. “I don’t think bans tend to work very well,” Ms Palfrey told Sky News Australia. “We want to be curious, understand what young people are accessing and why they’re interested in connecting online.” “Also give them the skills to notice when its working for them – are they coming off feeling really proud of themselves or … feeling isolated.”

Labor is getting on with fixing the housing sector after it was “neglected” under the former Coalition government, according to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.  “We did the hard work so that we could hit the ground to repair ten years of neglect,” Mr Albanese said during a media conference on Tuesday.   “The housing sector was neglected under the former government; we’re getting on with fixing it.”

Australian National University International Law Professor Donald Rothwell says it looks “very difficult” how Israel’s Prime Minister and three Hamas leaders could be “brought to The Hague”. The ICC is seeking arrest warrants for three leaders of Hamas, as well as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Defence Minister. “In the short to medium term, it would look very difficult in terms of how these arrest warrants could actually be effected, and any of these individuals could at least be brought to The Hague to face trial,” Mr Rothwell told Sky News Australia.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s assessment of the ICC’s decision to seek an arrest warrant for Israel’s Prime Minister is “very fair”, says Zionist Federation of Australia Dr Ben Carlill. “It’s an appalling decision,” he told Sky News Australia. “Which really, it’s a manifestation of a court that has allowed itself to become politicised.”

Strategic Analysis Australia Director Michael Shoebridge says the recent crash which killed the Iranian President and Foreign Minister will be a “huge shock” to the Iranian system. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian were killed in a helicopter after it went down in East Azerbaijan. “This will be a huge shock because President Raisi was the half-anointed successor for the 85-year-old current supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini.” Mr Shoebridge told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “So, his loss will shock the Iranian system. “What happens now is the Senior Vice President will step up temporarily as acting president and they’ll hold a rigged election within 50 days. “There’s no doubt that only a hardliner that does exactly what Supreme Leader Khomeini wants will get the job.”

Sky News host Paul Murray says the Coalition’s polling numbers have been “absolutely improving” from the last federal election. “Yes, there has been movement back towards the Coalition – the numbers absolutely improving from the last election,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “Labor kind of back to where they were at the last election, but remember, that only got them two seats. “The movement seems to be on the right to One Nation where a couple of points have ticked up and, also, on the left, not even to the Greens, but to the teal category – that means minority parliament.”

Sky News contributor Joe Hildebrand has backed the call from numerous state and federal politicians to raise the social media age limit to 16 years old. “It’s been an absolute force for destruction right across the globe, particularly in the west, and I think it has really harmed politics, I think it has harmed public life,” Mr Hildebrand told Sky News host Sharri Markson. “I’ve seen it do harm to adults who have got hides as tough as rhinoceroses … this is no place for children.”