Donald Trump had a “triumphant week” after he swept the Republican primary votes again on Super Tuesday, says Sky News Washington Correspondent Annelise Nielsen. Voters took to the polls in 16 states for the largest single day of voting in the primary calendar. Former President Donald Trump knocked his last competitor for the nomination out of the race and has solidified his hold on the Republican Party. Joe Biden has faced the primaries essentially unopposed and now fights public perception that he is too old for the top job. The US presidential election is now all but certain to be a Trump-Biden rematch. “From here, we are heading into an election season unlike anything America has seen before,” Ms Nielsen said. “A former president running against an incumbent president – and a general public generally unenthused about either.”

Kidder Williams Managing Director David Williams has urged supermarket giants to “stick their knitting” and refrain from vertical integration. The former investment banker who has been behind many of Australia’s biggest food deals sat down with Sky News Australia Business Editor Ross Greenwood to discuss whether the food industry and farmers need an inquiry into supermarkets and their pricing practices. “One of the things that I find frustrating at the moment is some of the major supermarkets are trying to be vertically integrated,” Mr Williams said. “By buying a meat abattoir or a milk plant. “They really should stick to their knitting in my opinion.”

Former ACCC Chairman Rod Sims has shared his vision for Australia to become a renewables powerhouse. “I’m very keen to focus on the real opportunities Australia has to take advantage of its really inexpensive renewable energy,” Mr Sims told Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood. “At the moment we export the iron ore, we export the metallurgical coal … and we export the gas or thermal coal to make the energy, and all that goes to China and they make the iron metal there using fossil fuels. “In the net zero world, the way to make iron metal is to use renewable energy for the heat and you need a lot of renewable energy to make green hydrogen, hydrogen substitute for metallurgical coal. "But it's really difficult and expensive to export renewable energy or hydrogen. “If we turned our iron ore into iron metal that would reduce world emissions by 3- 3.5 per cent, three times the benefits you get from decarbonising Australia. “So if you're interested in emission reduction and interested in Australia’s prosperity taking advantage of that renewable energy, particularly up north is definitely something to do.”

Kidder Williams Managing Director David Williams says cost-of-living pressures rather than supermarket price gouging is the reason many Australian food companies are struggling at the moment. The former investment banker who has been behind many of Australia’s biggest food deals sat down with Sky News Australia Business Editor Ross Greenwood to discuss whether the food industry and farmers need an inquiry into supermarkets and their pricing practices. “Most Australian food companies at the moment are struggling, but they are not struggling primarily because of the supermarkets,” Mr Williams said. “They are struggling because of the cost of freight, they are struggling because of the cost of power, they are struggling because of access to labour, and the cost of labour and so forth. “Depending on who you are it could be the cost of milk from the farmer."

Entertainment Reporter Sussan Mourad says Oppenheimer is the “frontrunner” to win Best Picture at the upcoming Academy Awards. The 96th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday 10th of March (local time) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, and there are a number of Australians up for awards. Ms Mourad sat down with Sky News Australia to discuss everything that will be happening at the upcoming Oscars ceremony. “It really is such a brilliant film from the cinematography, the casting, the acting, the script, the score,” Ms Mourad said. “I do think that we’re going to see Oppenheimer take home the Best Picture award.”

Ryan Gosling is set to perform his Barbie anthem ‘I’m Just Ken’ at the Academy Awards this year and is rumoured to be joined by 65 Kens on stage, says entertainment reporter Sussan Mourad. The 96th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday 10th of March (local time) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, and there are a number of Australians up for awards. Ms Mourad sat down with Sky News Australia to discuss everything that will be happening at the upcoming Oscars ceremony. “It’s going to be a dazzling performance on the stage,” Ms Mourad said. “If one Ken wasn’t kenough, I think 65 Kens definitely will be.”

Liberal Senator Alex Antic has pushed for a moratorium on gender transitions for kids under 18 to “allow children to mature” The South Australian senator has put a bill before the Senate which seeks to place a complete prohibition on children under 18 being able to transition their gender. The Australian Senate shot down the request by Mr Antic to have his bill referred to a Senate hearing. “One thing you can be assured of in life is when people don’t want to talk about a subject, there is something to hide” “Let’s talk about it ... and get the evidence from real medical professionals. “Get them before the Australian people and let them see if they are comfortable with this.”

Sky News host Rowan Dean has slammed Liberal MPs who voted down a bill seeking to prohibit the gender transition of children under 18. The South Australian senator has put a bill before the Senate which seeks to place a complete prohibition on children under 18 being able to transition their gender. The Australian Senate shot down the hearing request, including many Liberals such as Jane Hume and Simon Birmingham. “If you are a Liberal and you did not support Alex Antic in the Senate last week, shame on you,” Mr Antic said. “The children of the future rely on you, Liberal Party, to sort this out.”

Liberal Senator Alex Antic says children are having their “feelings listened to” in what are complicated medical and emotional scenarios. The South Australian senator has put a bill before the Senate which seeks to place a complete prohibition on children under 18 being able to transition their gender. “What we are talking about here is putting a circuit breaker on this,” Mr Antic said. “At some point, politics has got to put a flag in the sand and talk about this. “The left in this country do not want to talk about this issue.”

Victorian Liberal MP Renee Heath says the Liberals has always been the party of “strong economic management”. “We haven’t ever stepped away from that,” she told Sky News Australia. “In terms of the treaty you mentioned, I was delighted to see that we’ve walked away from that. “We are not supporting the treaty anymore. “I think there was a huge change after the referendum, and I think the Victorian party has listened.”

Former Trump senior advisor Christian Whiton says responses to the State of the Union address are “always underwhelming”. US President Joe Biden delivered his third State of the Union address on Thursday (local time), with Republican Senator Katie Britt chosen to respond. “Almost everyone who has given that speech has had themselves diminished,” Mr Whiton told Sky News Australia. “It’s something they should probably just cancel and do away with or have ... several people in a spin room respond. “Always an underwhelming speech, and it was underwhelming this time.”

Former Trump senior advisor Christian Whiton says Donald Trump would win with a “resounding endorsement from the people” if the US election were held today. In a recent national New York Times/Siena College poll, Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden by five percentage points. Mr Whiton says the former president is also leading Joe Biden in critical swing states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona. “No Republican has won a majority of the popular votes since George W Bush in 2004,” Mr Whiton told Sky News Australia. “If these polls are correct, Trump might actually do it.”

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South Australia Legislative Council Opposition Leader Nicola Centofanti says the “hypocrisy and arrogance is alive and well” in South Australia with its Labor government. Ms Centofanti’s comments come as the South Australian government pushes for a state-based Voice to Parliament following the loss of the 2023 Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum. “64 per cent of South Australians voted against the federal referendum, but yet Peter Malinauskas and this state Labor government are continuing to press on with their state-based Voice,” Ms Centofanti said. “I think this government should really be looking into the reasons as to why the community didn’t want a federal Voice. “That is because they are the same reasons as to why people don’t want a state Voice – they don’t want a state Voice because it’s another layer of bureaucracy. “They don’t want further division based on race.”

A ship carrying aid is expected to head to Gaza from Cyprus after the European Union said a maritime corridor would be opened. Sky News UK Middle East Correspondent Alistair Bunkall says the primary objective of this is to get aid into Gaza “not to substitute the other routes” but to “supplement them”. “There are hundreds of tonnes worth of aid on board the ship, mainly food,” Mr Bunkall said. “They hope that multiple ships will follow, assuming this one is a success. “We’ve got aid drops … and then now a maritime route as well.”

The United States, United Kingdom and French military have shot down dozens of drones in the Red Sea. This comes as the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels target shipping in the area. US Central Command estimates it downed at least 28 un-crewed aircraft in the region. The Houthis have been attacking ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in a campaign they claim is in solidarity with Palestinians. This comes as more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the region since the Hamas October 7 attacks, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

A series of aid drops have been made into Gaza in an effort to bring the population back from the brink of famine. More than two million people in the Gaza Strip are struggling to access food, particularly in the north. This comes as more than 30,000 Palestinians have been reportedly killed in Israeli attacks on the region since the Hamas October 7 attacks, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The UN estimates one in six children younger than two in the north are suffering from acute malnutrition. The aid agencies used to take in about 500 truckloads of aid per day and say this method is not going to be adequate. Jordanians, along with a growing list of countries, are getting increasingly frustrated at the lack of progress on a ceasefire and the high number of casualties.

Sky News can reveal that there have been approaches to the former NSW education minister Sarah Mitchell to run for the federal seat of Parkes at the next election. While Ms Mitchell has not ruled a run for the seat or federal politics out, Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell was told it is unlikely the NSW upper house MP will take up the offer. This comes after Perin Davey won the Nationals’ pre-selection battle for the party’s Senate. “Perin Davey clung on to her pre-selection for the Senate 42 votes to 37 on Friday against the party’s federal secretary Juliana McArthur,” Mr Clennell said. “Despite revelations on this program Ms Davey drank before appearing at a parliamentary committee last month – Ms Davey denied she was affected by alcohol at that appearance.”

Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says the “next big front of attempted reform” from the Albanese government appears to be around the aged care sector. Labor has commissioned a review on the sector – the big debate is whether or not there will be a change to means-testing for paying for aged care or to the refundable deposits, which are currently capped at just over half a million dollars used to pay for people to be in aged care. “The government’s view is it will be difficult to get reforms up in this space if the Opposition opposes it,” Mr Clennell said. “The Opposition leader, Peter Dutton, indicated in his budget reply speech that he would support sensible reform in this space, but there are concerns in the Opposition about the approach of the government on aged care. “There was a briefing on Friday afternoon from Aged Care Minister Anika Wells to her opposition counterpart Anne Ruston, which was said to be short on detail.”

The Moomba Parade in Melbourne this Monday has been cancelled. Festival organisers were preparing to celebrate the event's 70th year. They made the decision to scrap it due to the severe heatwave alert. Parts of Victoria saw temperatures reach the high 30s or early 40s on Saturday. Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp says the organiser had little choice but to prioritise the health and safety of attendees and those involved.