Prince William and Princess Catherine are focusing on “precious family time” amid health battles plaguing the Royal Family, according to skynews.com.au Digital Reporter Reilly Sullivan. The Princess of Wales confirmed she had been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing “preventative chemotherapy” for the disease in a video message released to the public on March 22. George, Charlotte and Louis have also finished up the term at Lambrook School in Berkshire for their Easter break. “We know that friends of Kate and William have said that they are kind of closing off from the world after this sort of global interest in Kate’s wellbeing and her whereabouts,” Mr Sullivan told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power. “I think the family are really keen to just sort of go back to their core family unit.”

The Artemis II is set to carry four astronauts to the moon in mid-2025. “That’s all looking very, very good now,” CSIRO Space and Astronomy’s Glen Nagle told Sky News Australia. “They’ve sorted out a lot of the issues they thought they had with the spacecraft. “Of course, now we’re getting ready to do even more on the moon. “A lot more commercial missions are going to be operating on the moon.”

NASA has been directed by the White House to establish standard time for the moon. The unified time standard would be called “Coordinated Lunar Time”. “As they say in the business, timing is everything,” CSIRO Space and Astronomy’s Glen Nagle told Sky News Australia. “When we’re going to the moon, so many countries working independently right now, they’re using their own time coordinates. “If we’re going to all work together – then we’re going to need that lunar time coordinate system.”

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has backed calls for a war crimes investigation after the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza. “That is what should happen," Ms Hanson-Young told Sky News Australia. “What we’ve heard from the Israeli government and the Prime Minister of Israel himself is fog of war excuses. “No I’m sorry, that is not good enough, it is not going to be good enough for the international community and it certainly is not good enough for the Australian community. “We are reeling – we’re reeling of what’s happened, we’re reeling of what death has occurred over the last few months of innocent lives of children, and now to have an Australian humanitarian aid worker killed – the fog of war is not an excuse.”

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young says a lot of people are “frustrated” with the Albanese government’s environmental law reform process. "The Albanese government promised to fix and reform Australia’s environment laws because they’re failing to protect the environment," Ms Hanson-Young told Sky News Australia. She said two years on, we still have not seen those laws be brought into the parliament. "If you want to have strong environmental law reform, doing it behind closed doors in secret is not how you get there," she said. "I’m the chair of the environment committee of the Senate and we will have a public hearing to get to the bottom of what is really going on. "To shine a light on what laws are needed if we’re to save the koala from going extinct, or save the planet from … the worsening climate crisis."

Liberal MP Zoe McKenzie has raised her concerns over the Israeli government being held to a “completely different standard” from Hamas. Ms McKenzie joined Sky News Australia to discuss the death of seven aid workers in an Israeli airstrike. “We have to remember Israel did not start this conflict,” she said. “It started on the 7th of October when terrorists came into Israel and destroyed villages, killed people and took people hostage who remain taken hostage to this date. “What needs to happen is that Hamas surrenders, that Hamas returns the hostages to their families in Israel, and that the rebuild can begin.”

America’s enemies “don’t fear” Joe Biden the same way they did Donald Trump, says Trump Advisory Board Member Jason Meister. This is the reason Mr Meister believes Hamas wouldn’t have invaded Gaza under Donald Trump. “Donald Trump brought peace through strength to the world,” he said. “He used military might only surgically. “But he deterred our enemies; our enemies do not fear Joe Biden. “Our enemies feared Donald Trump; they didn’t know how he would react."

Assistant Trade and Manufacturing Minister Tim Ayres says the government’s energy bill relief package had an “enormous impact on lower prices” for families and small businesses. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hinted at further energy bill relief in the budget. “As the Prime Minister just said, that had an economy wide impact in terms of keeping inflation down,” Mr Ayres told Sky News Australia. “We are absolutely focused on these cost-of-living issues as we head towards the budget. “I think the Prime Minister’s given an indication of his approach on these questions.”

Regional Development Minster Kristy McBain says the Labor government is "clearly focused" on helping Australians with cost-of-living pressures. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hinted at further energy bill relief at an event on Thursday. “It is clear that people are asking us to do more,” Ms McBain told Sky News. “We’ve got a project coming up in May. “It is clearly still a focus on this government to work on how we can help people with their cost-of-living relief.

The Australian government are yet to back a war crimes inquiry reveals, Sky News Australia Senior Political Reporter Trudy McIntosh. The Family of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom who was killed in an Israeli airstrike have demanded a war crimes inquiry be carried out. “The Prime Minister says he wants to wait and see the full outcome of Israel’s investigation into the strike,” Ms McIntosh said. “He says in the conversation he had around this time yesterday with Prime Minister Netanyahu he was given an assurance there would be a full and transparent account of what happened. “The Prime Minister is stopping short of the family’s request to push for this inquiry.”

Independent MP Dai Le has slammed Anthony Albanese for “another headline-grabbing announcement” with the potential cost of living relief in the May Budget. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has dropped a new hint about the potential cost of living measures in the May Budget during a speech to small businesses in Sydney. “I shouldn’t be so cynical, but I can’t help being cynical – there must be something happening in 12 months’ time; an election time perhaps,” Ms Le told Sky News Australia. “To me, this is another headline-grabbing announcement, as usual. “I’ve got local businesses here whose energy bills have gone from $4,000 to about $11,000; will that $650 help? I don’t know, but anything will help a small bit.”

NASA has reportedly been ordered to create a lunar unified standard of time. According to Reuters, the White House has ordered NASA to set a luna unified standard of time. “Time on the moon is different to earth and not just in the way we kind of experience time as in the days in rotation, but really as a physical way we measure time is slightly different,” ANU Astrophysicist Brad Tucker said. Different due to gravitational and other forces a clock on the moon would move around 60 microseconds slower than on Earth. Having a standard lunar time is vital as navigation equipment like GPS relies on precise timekeeping.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hinted at further energy bill relief in the upcoming May budget. The Prime Minister spoke at an event in Sydney on Thursday. He said small businesses and families will be front of mind in the budget. “Energy bills remain a source of financial pressure,” he said. “That’s why the energy bill relief package that I negotiated with the states and territories delivered up to $650 in savings for around one million small businesses.”

Former Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales has been arrested as part of a corruption investigation. Mr Rubiales was detained briefly at Madrid Airport after arriving back from the Dominican Republic. The 46-year-old is being investigated for business dealings regarding the Spanish Super Cup football competition in Saudi Arabia. Mr Rubiales has denied any wrongdoing. Last month police searched his home and the football federation headquarters, where they made several arrests.

Sky News host James Morrow says Peter Dutton’s push for nuclear is forcing the Albanese government to “confront the reality” of its renewables promise which “doesn’t really stack up”. Opposition leader Peter Dutton has flagged higher-paying jobs and energy subsidies for coal-fired power stations which move to nuclear energy. Sky News Australia understands Dutton could release part of his party’s nuclear energy plan within weeks after flagging more potential sites along the east coast. “One of the things that people in the industry have told me, though, is that if you were to build a nuclear power plant … an awful lot of what goes into a nuclear reactor [is the] same stuff that happens at a coal-fired power plant or a gas turbine,” Mr Morrow told Sky News host Steve Price. “It’s just something that heats up, boils water, steam comes out, it spins a turbine. “I just think that the interesting thing about Peter Dutton pushing the nuclear debate … [is] the fact that it is forcing Labor to confront the reality of its promise which … doesn’t really stack up.”

Sky News host James Morrow says the “green transition” will not “wash politically”. Net Zero Economy Agency head Greg Combet, during his speech at the National Press Club this week, said governments should fund big green energy projects needed in the transition from fossil fuels. “If you look at what’s happening here with a lot of the talk around the green transition, the net zero thing, the renewables race,” Mr Morrow told Sky News host Steve Price. “People who are sharpening their pencils and doing the numbers on it are realising that this simply isn’t going to wind up providing the same economic opportunities for people that the fossil fuel economy did. “Greg Combet is not the only one saying this. “This isn’t going to wash politically.”

US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell has moved to quell concerns the AUKUS submarine deal could be under threat if there is a change of government at the next US election. Dr Campbell told a US think tank that the submarine deal still enjoys strong bipartisan support in Washington DC. “I believe from my conversation and engagements on Capitol Hill that those sentiments are widely shared,” he said. “I think they are completely shared in the Democratic Party, and I think they are shared largely in the Republican Party. “There is a strain in American politics that is isolationist and nationalistic, and I think tempted to go it alone and seeing foreign partnerships rather as encumbering, and many of these allies are not to be trusted. “I do not believe those views comport with the sentiments of the American public or the general policy platforms of either parties.”

At least nine people have been killed and around 900 others have been injured after Taiwan was shaken by one of the strongest earthquakes in a quarter of a century. The Japanese Meteorological Agency reported the quake at 7.58am local time (10.58am AEDT), about 18 kilometres southwest of Hualien City. The 7.2 magnitude earthquake is the strongest tremor to hit the island in at least 25 years. Several aftershocks struck the capital of Taipei, while most of the damage has been recorded in the eastern city of Hualien, where 100 remain trapped in tunnels. The earthquake sparked a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines, but was later lifted.

Republican lawmakers in the United States have proposed renaming an international airport. House Republicans have introduced a bill to rename Dulles International Airport near Washington DC after former president Donald Trump. The bill would need to pass through a Democrat majority Senate. It will also need to pass the House of Representatives, where the Republicans hold a slender majority. Democrats claim a federal prison would be a more appropriate namesake for the 2024 presidential frontrunner.

The Megyn Kelly Show host Megyn Kelly says suburban women who use to vote Republican “left for a reason” and it was former US President Donald Trump’s “temperament”. Ms Kelly says they “don’t like him” and that’s what “drove them away”. “Most pollsters are saying even though he’s improved margins … they’re not going to make up for the loss of women,” Ms Kelly told Sky News host Paul Murray. “He’s got to get a fair amount of the women who have left him. “He needs to be more disciplined as he was for about two minutes when he launched this campaign.”