Sky News host Caleb Bond says the Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock’s presser was “full of nothing”. The Reserve Bank of Australia made the decision to keep the cash rate on hold at 4.35 per cent on Tuesday. Mr Bond said he watched it and “did not learn a single thing” about why any decision was made. “And if you read the press release they put out today about the decision they made, I’m sure I’ve read those lines before, it’s the same stuff over and over and over again. “The only thing that mattered as far as I was concerned was that Michele Bullock said today … that they anticipate that interest rates will start to decrease by the end of the year.”

Former Labor senator Stephen Conroy says the Reserve Bank has got its modelling “badly wrong” for the last couple of years. The Reserve Bank of Australia made the decision to keep the cash rate on hold at 4.35 per cent. “This is an emperor who has no clothes – it doesn’t matter whether it’s Philip Lowe or Michele Bullock, they are cut from the same cloth,” Mr Conroy said. “They’ve been wrong, wrong, wrong on their underpinning assumptions over the last 12 months, and they are wrong again today. “They should be getting ready to cut rates very soon after the completely moronic rate rise that they engaged in in October. “They just don’t want to learn their lesson.”

Sky News host Caleb Bond says so many councillors are “glorified busybodies”. Mr Bond said they’re the people who “peer over the neighbour's fence to complain”. “These are the people who then feel motivated to run for council. “So you end up with all these weirdos and misfits sitting in one room. “And it becomes just this great melting pot of nonsense.”

Sky News host Caleb Bond says a survey has been conducted which shows that “people hate their councils”. Mr Bond said people want their councils to “get back to basics”. “People are paying their rates and they simply want their councils to do the things that they pay them to do. “The money that they compulsory take from us. “The system is broken.”

The media's omission of today's renewables rally outside the parliament house is a disservice to our struggling farmers, the RBA keeps the cash rate at 4.35 per cent. Plus, Malcolm Turnbull labels Peter Dutton a 'thug'. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

Sky News host Andrew Bolt has urged the Liberal Party to shift the debate from tax to immigration after Opposition leader Peter Dutton backed Labor’s tax cuts. The Coalition announced on Tuesday it would back the federal government’s amendments to the stage three tax cuts following a party room meeting. However, the Opposition will also seek to make some amendments to Labor's changes, but it remains unclear as to what this would be. Mr Bolt encouraged the Liberal leader to move to a “different target” as he noted immigration is a “huge Labor weakness” which is hurting poor Australians and threatening the future of millions of young people. “This kind of immigration is fracturing our country, lowering wages, crowding out cities and above all – keeping young couples out of their first house,” he said. “The Liberals need a new issue to put the heat on Labor. This could be it.”

Sky News host Sharri Markson exposes a “cover-up” by NSW Police amid revelations they ignored testimonies from numerous witnesses who heard the "gas the Jews" chant at the Sydney Opera House protest last year. Ms Markson revealed NSW Police failed to interview others who heard the “gas the Jews” chant despite being provided with their details. "Police obtained statements from several individuals who attended the protest indicating they heard the phrase however these statements have not attributed the phrase to any specific individual,” a statement from NSW Police read. The Sky News host also revealed police failed to start tracking down the “gas the Jews” footage from the group that first made it public until just before Christmas. One witness, who didn’t want to be named publicly, had a statutory declaration done and sent to police. They called him on February 2 but then never followed up. “Police didn't say the ‘gas the Jews’ chant hadn't happened – they just said at their press conference on Friday they couldn't prove it to the standard required for criminal prosecution and they couldn't identify any individuals who allegedly said it,” Ms Markson said. “That is very different to saying the ‘gas the Jews’ chant didn't happen. Yet, bizarrely in the wake of this press conference, some are celebrating a journalism win – it’s sick and twisted.” Ms Markson pointed to statements from MLC Stephen Lawrence and former ABC fill-in host Antoinette Lattouf who celebrated the findings. “We all know how disgusting that protest was; how un-Australian; how racist,” she added. “We all know the police failed our entire Australian community – escorting the vile protesters and allowing the spectacle to unfold and the images to be broadcast globally, tainting our Australian icon the Opera House. “There is no question the majority of Australians hate the scenes that took place and want the police to act with the laws that are there to protect Australians. “This has all been an upsetting episode; it's gaslighting the Jewish community.”

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer says the US has an “open and porous border” as the country experiences an influx of Chinese migrants. Mr Spicer joined Sky News Australia host Andrew Bolt to discuss the latest on the border crisis in America. “They, like so many others, recognise that there’s an open and porous border with Mexico that we share,” he said. “These aren’t southern migrants moving their way up – we’ve got them from India, from Russia, obviously male Chinese military-aged men trying to come in. “I guess it makes sense if your goal is to infiltrate the United States, and you know that the door is open.”

Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says the Queensland Premier’s behaviour when asked about youth crime was “bizarre”. The Queensland Premier Steven Miles laughed when he was asked about the absence of youth crime mentioned in his speech to the Queensland Media Club. Mr Canavan told Sky News host Andrew Bolt that the Premier “needs to explain himself”. “Particularly given that he’s been part of a government that has weakened youth justice laws. “It’s left Queensland with far too many violent criminals let out of situations where they just shouldn’t be on our streets.”

Shadow Attorney General Michaelia Cash says Anthony Albanese is “failing to deliver on so many” of the promises he made prior to the election. “Let’s start on the $275 reduction in your energy bill; they can’t even mention the word ‘275’,” Ms Cash told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “Then you have a look at the legislated tax cuts; over 100 times he looked Australians in the eye, up until recently, and said ‘my word is my bond’. “You cannot trust a thing the Prime Minister says going forward.” The Opposition will not block Labor’s proposed changes to the stage three tax cuts after weeks of criticising the Prime Minister for making the amendments.

Sky News host Rita Panahi has applauded Australian comic Jack Tossol for poking fun at “woke journalism” in a TikTok. “I woke up, checked my privilege and then had breakfast where I found my journalism degree,” Mr Tossol said in the TikTok video. “Then I wrote articles why the suburb Manly’s name is problematic and how cricket whites reinforce colonialism and white supremacy.” He goes on in the video to mock journalists making fun of “baby boomers” who disagree with their articles. “So much material for comics who dare to go there,” Ms Panahi said.

Two of Australia’s most prominent retailers performed extremely well on Tuesday's stock market. Shares in the department store Myer went up 14.2 per cent, even though the company’s first-half sales were down three per cent to $1.83 billion. The share price of furniture retailer Nick Scali also skyrocketed by 16.57 per cent. Despite the retailer's first-half profit falling, its shares hit a 52-week high. Nick Scali’s January sales orders were reported to be 3.6 per cent higher.

Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to a group of American college students failing to answer a basic math question during a street interview. In the video shared by Akua.Dora on Instagram, students were asked to answer 15x4. All the students confidently answered with 48 despite the correct answer being 60. “Though the college kids are indoctrinated about systemic racism, they don't seem to know too many facts including some very basic mathematics,” Ms Panahi said. “I sincerely, sincerely hope that was a setup but I fear that was not.”

Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke says the Opposition has opposed “every measure” by the government to boost wages. Mr Burke accused the Opposition of opposing wage increases “right from the start” during the election campaign. “They’ve opposed them right from the start when during the election campaign the Prime Minister was asked a question – would he support a wage rise being backed at the Fair Work Commission, and he had a one-word answer that’ll be very familiar to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition,” he said during Question Time on Tuesday. “’ Absolutely,’ absolutely to support those wage rises. “The same that was used from those opposite to say that they would oppose a tax cut for every Australian and that they would roll it back.”

Sky News host Rita Panahi pokes fun at Americans interviewed on the street who didn’t know America was one of the first nations to ban slavery. Social media personality David J Harris Jr asked Americans what the first three countries to ban slavery were. “Definitely wasn’t America. Brazil? I don’t know”, one interviewee said. Another person suggested Asia before being told it was a continent, not a country. “Guess what? America was among the first, among the first three,” Ms Panahi said. “You would think Americans would know that.”

Royal Historian Tessa Dunlop says King Charles has gone to “great lengths” to try and establish himself as a more “empathetic, progressive” monarch. Ms Dunlop’s comments come after Buckingham Palace announced King Charles had been diagnosed with cancer. The Royal Historian says Buckingham Palace revealing the King’s cancer diagnosis to the public is “in keeping” with the King establishing himself as a more “progressive” monarch. “This is a seat change – of course, we live in very different times,” Ms Dunlop told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan. “He’s shared but he’s not overshared.”

Royal Historian Tessa Dunlop says one can’t help but feel “great sympathy” for King Charles III following his cancer diagnosis. “He’s been in a job that he’s waited his entire life for, for one year and four months and this news will have come as a shock,” she told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan. Ms Dunlop says the King has shared but not “overshared”. “We don’t know of course what the treatment will be,” she said. “We don’t know what cancer he has, but I think we can feel cautiously optimistic.”

Sky News Investigations Reporter Jonathan Lea has revealed that union enforced rules can see some workers doing exactly the same jobs, being rewarded with potentially thousands of dollars in extra payments each week. The staggering hidden costs of union-controlled construction are strangling businesses and Australia's economic prosperity, according to Meriton Group Managing Director Harry Triguboff. The Electrical Trades Union's latest confidential enterprise agreement has detailed a lift in wages by seven per cent this year and a further ten per cent over the following two years, with a weekly base salary starting at $739 for a first year apprentice and $2970 a week for a grade ten electrician. Sky News can reveal on top of the salaries comes a bevy of allowances adding hundreds if not thousands of dollars each week to a member's wage, starting with a site allowance. The higher a project is costed, the more a worker makes. On a smaller $100 million to $200 million site it's an extra $3.50 every hour, and on a major project over $1 billion and it's an extra $11.00 an hour for the same skills.

Royal biographer Tom Bower says King Charles’ cancer diagnosis has come as a “shock to the public”. Mr Bower said he thinks people are “just not ready” after having lost the Queen recently, and subsequently they don’t want to “lose the King”. “We rely on the Monarchy to keep this country together; we rely on the Monarchy to represent us at all these amazing charities,” Mr Bower told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan. “Without them, I think the country’s lost. “I think that’s what we’ve got to fear.”

Former press secretary to the late Queen, Dickie Arbiter, says it is “probably good news” King Charles will be “treated at home” following his cancer diagnosis. Mr Arbiter praised Buckingham Palace for announcing the King’s diagnosis instead of hiding it. “Good on Buckingham Palace for announcing that the King does have cancer because if he’s not seen out and about – which is his job – there will be a lot of speculation as to where he is,” Mr Arbiter told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan. “Treating at home is good news, it means that he will carry on with a fairly normal life. “It’s good that Buckingham Palace did announce it ... it just shows a new monarchy. “We can just hope in the fullness of time he will be cured.”