Sky News host James Macpherson says Kamala Harris is the “only person on earth” who can make Joe Biden look good. “Well, if you’ve ever wondered why we have Kamala Harris as the Vice President of the United States, the answer is pretty obvious,” Mr Macpherson said. Mr Macpherson’s remarks come amid the US Vice President’s latest reason why Americans shouldn’t vote for Donald Trump. “If he is re-elected, the former US president has openly said he intends to weaponise the Department of Justice against his enemies,” Ms Harris said. “If Trump weaponises the Department of Justice, he’ll simply say, ‘I learnt from the best’,” Mr Macpherson added.

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has presented a “very big statement” by accusing Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of losing his way in their war against Gaza, says US Analyst Michael Ware. “We certainly haven’t heard President Joe Biden call for Netanyahu to stand down even though President Biden has said his government has gone over the top in this war,” Mr Ware told Sky News Australia. “When a Democrat Senate Majority Leader, a vehement Jewish-American supporter of Israel himself, stands up and calls for a change in government. “I think that is the voice of the Biden government’s angst with the leader of Israel. “They say his high tolerance for civilian casualties risks making Israel an international pariah.”

Share market numbers are going to be down by a “decent margin,” says CommSec’s Tom Piotrowski. “The futures are telling us we will be down by about 1 per cent,” he told Sky News Australia. “So, that is a reflection of the hotter-than-expected inflation figures that we saw in the US. “There is nothing compelling here when it comes to the narrative about cutting rates.” Presented by CommSec.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns and his Treasurer are leading a revolt against federal GST allocations approved by fellow federal Labor ministers. NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has slammed the GST distributions as “absurd” as the Minns’ government proposes an allocation based on a state’s population. Mr Mookhey will meet his federal counterpart on Friday where he will make the case for per capita GST distribution. Chris Minns has criticised Western Australia's GST guarantee, despite the Labor led state being the richest in the country. Despite the New South Wales led push, the Prime Minister has ruled out making any changes to GST.

Queensland's Liberal National Party is on track to deliver the Sunshine State a majority government if an election was to be held in March, according to Newspoll. The polling company’s latest data shows the state Opposition has surged ahead of Labor by eight points since the 2020 election. LNP Leader David Crisafulli is leading Steven Miles as better Premier by 6 per cent with preferential data for the two Party leaders at 43 and 37 per cent respectively. The potential win would translate to an 18-seat loss for the Labor Party and could break Labor's 'Red Wall' effect across the mainland. At least 81 per cent of Queenslanders outside the southeast believe it's time for a change of government.

Sky News host Sharri Markson says the US Congress has “overwhelmingly” voted in favour of a new legislation that would see a ban on TikTok. The lower house of Congress voted 352 to 65 in favour of the bill. Members of Congress in the White House claim TikTok is a “national security threat” due to its ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and lawmakers want to force the app's Beijing-based owner ByteDance to divest. The bill will now head to the Senate for a vote. The TikTok CEO denies the Chinese government controls the app or accesses Americans’ user data.

Sky News Australia host Caleb Bond says it is a “disgrace” anyone signed off on an LGBTQ+ club at a US school that didn’t require consent from parents. It comes as a teacher of a school in California reportedly created a “secret” LGBTQ+ club for students aged six, seven and eight years old. “You work that stuff out for yourself,” Mr Bond said. “You don’t need to be led off to some little secret club in a school to find that out unless someone wants to put something in your head. “The fact that anyone signed off on it in the first place is a disgrace.”

Swedish Police have forcibly removed Greta Thunberg and a dozen other environmental activists who were blocking entrances to the parliament building. The group were protesting against political inaction on climate change. Police removed individuals from the sit-down protest, driving them away in a police van. Sky News contributor Prue MacSween called the 21-year-old climate activist a "parody of herself". “Will someone just give the girl a job, if she’s able to do it," Ms MacSween told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “I mean it’s just pathetic and so sad.”

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Bob Hawke was the “last honest” federal Labor leader. Mr Dutton joined Sky News host Chris Kenny to discuss the future of energy in Australia. The Opposition Leader said Bob Hawke was “able to put his cards on the table”. “As recently as 2016 – strongly in favour of nuclear power because he knew that the latest generation of nuclear power is nothing like what we saw in the 60s or 70s or 80s. “It is zero emissions.”

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “lacks vision for this country”. Mr Dutton joined Sky News host Chris Kenny to discuss the future of energy in Australia. The Opposition Leader labelled the Prime Minister as a “weak leader”. “We see it on a daily basis,” Mr Dutton said. “This government now resembles more I think the Whitlam government, than it does the Hawke government.”

The Australian’s John Stensholt discusses Australia’s top ten richest people. The full list of the nation’s 250 richest people will be released in The Australian on Friday. “Gina Rinehart’s at number one,” Mr Stensholt told Sky News host Sharri Markson. “So $50 billion, which is an amazing number. “Would you believe it’s probably being a little bit conservative given, I guess how the success of her Hancock Prospecting has gone.”

The Australian’s John Stensholt says there are “more female entrepreneurs” appearing on Australia’s richest list. The full list of the nation’s 250 richest people will be released in The Australian on Friday. Mr Stensholt pointed to the Zimmerman sisters as an example. “The Zimmerman fashion brand, Tanya Austin with Decjuba as well. “So there’s a lot of people on the list that look, basically make their money around the world, but live in Australia.”

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong are putting the China relationship "above national security", says Sky News host Sharri Markson. “Labor insider Cameron Milner … says there's a pattern of capitulation to China from the Albanese government that should be deeply worrying," she said. Mr Milner said in a piece titled ‘ALP is China's lapdog’ that China will see ‘a PM grinning to gratuitous compliments while avoiding raising matters of genuine national interest’. ‘Australia needs to have a proper conversation about how we defend our values and our neighbours from foreign aggression. Defunding ASPI might keep you sweet with the Chinese; it doesn't help our national interest,’ he said. Mr Milner also said it's 'beyond ironic that Wong fights to re-establish funding to the UNWRA ... at the same time she wants to cut funding to ASPI'. “Between Wong and Albanese, this is the worst foreign policy duo we've had in office in recent political history,” Ms Markson said.

There is a lot of “new young names” among Australia’s richest list, according to The Australia’s John Stensholt. The full list of the nation’s 250 richest people will be released in The Australian on Friday. “There’s a couple of guys from the Gold Coast,” he told Sky News host Sharri Markson. “HiSmile, the toothpaste brand Alex Tomic and Nik Mirkovic, they’re worth about $600 million. “There’s two ladies down in Tasmania who own Blundstone.”

Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says the Labor government is “addicted” to PR stunts while Australians are under a cost-of-living crisis. “It is just one PR stunt after another,” he said. “Meanwhile you are paying a fortune for your energy bills, your grocery bills are going up. “Mortgages are becoming unaffordable for people. “The government continues to be addicted to these ridiculous PR shoots.”

Former Trump strategist Sebastian Gorka has commented on Joe Biden losing support among non-white Americans. A New York Times/Siena College poll earlier this month said that Joe Biden was leading former president Donald Trump 56 points to 44 among non-white Americans. This is a group Biden won by almost 50 points in the 2020 presidential election. “Remember, this is the candidate who said, when he was running for the presidency … ‘If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black’,” Mr Gorka told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “This is the bigotry of the Democrats – the party that was responsible for the KKK; the party that was the party of the segregationists. “That’s Joe Biden’s Democrat Party.”

GB News host Darren Grimes has reacted to author Peter Hitchens delivering a reality check to the BBC over Britain’s net-zero targets. Mr Hitchins told BBC audience members that if they “wanted to live in a country where nobody can afford to heat their house,” and one where “lots of people lose their jobs, and be cold all the time”, they should keep pursuing net zero by 2050. “Once again, we in this country have gone far further than the sensible Australians have, Mr Grimes told Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi in response. “The government right now just had to admit it’s made a mistake in banging the drum against gas power stations. “Because we are now having to build more… and we are all saying, ‘you thick wazzocks, of course, we knew this would happen.’”

Sky News host Steve Price questions the future of energy capacity in Australia as investment in large-scale renewable capacity development has "fallen off a cliff". “Renewable energy capacity and new projects, investment in both solar and wind had dropped in the last 12 months by 80 per cent,” he said. Mr Price said it is being blamed on slow “planning” and environmental approvals. “Ever-rising costs” and a tight labour market are also contributing factors, he said. “Investment has really fallen off a cliff.”

Sky News host Erin Molan believes the US “will be in a better place” under Donald Trump but he “may hurt” Australia with his isolationist policies. Former US president Donald Trump has won enough delegates to become the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election. After US President Joe Biden secured the Democrat nomination earlier today, the rematch between Trump and Biden will be the first US presidential election rematch in nearly 70 years. “It’s a fascinating contest, and I just love this stuff anyway from an entertainment perspective,” Ms Molan told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power. “Biden did well at the State of the Union … but I think his cognitive ability will play a massive part over the next few months. “I think America will be in a better place under Trump … but he may hurt us [Australia] as well.

Sky News host Chris Kenny has questioned how Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the “best they can give their people” because it was “bad enough the first time”. Former US president Donald Trump has won enough delegates to become the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election. After US President Joe Biden secured the Democrat nomination earlier today, the rematch between Trump and Biden will be the first US presidential election rematch in nearly 70 years. “I just think the great republic – the leader of the free world – and this is the best they can give their people – a choice between Trump and Biden,” Mr Kenny told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power. “It was bad enough the first time, and now we’re going to be back there again.”