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.”

A Russian cosmonaut has set a new record for the most time spent in space according to Russia’s space corporation. Oleg Kononenko was named as the record-breaker on Sunday. Kononenko has logged more than 878 days – nearly two and a half years – at the International Space Station. He broke the record first set by his compatriot while orbiting 263 miles from Earth during his fifth space flight. The International Space Station is considered one of the only projects in which Russia and the United States work together.

Tensions are high on New Zealand’s national holiday as protestors hit the streets of the nation’s capital. Waitangi Day commemorates the signing of a treaty between the British Crown and Maori in 1840. This year commemorations are being overshadowed by tensions between Maori and the new government's policies. An estimated 2,000 people in Wellington have marched from the war memorial to Waitangi Park. The protest is in response to the new government’s proposed policy changes.

TalkTV Royal Editor Sarah Hewson says King Charles will now be “relying” on other members of his family such as his sister, Princess Anne, following his cancer diagnosis. “Those that are working already have packed schedules, Princess Anne for example has an incredibly busy diary and the King is going to be relying on his sister now,” Ms Hewson told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan. “Also on Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, on Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince William. “But ... Prince William was hoping to take some time out to be looking after his wife and children – next week is half-term, the children will be home from school, Kate not really able to be carrying on as normal. “But we had the announcement today and I think the timing of that was significant and choregraphed, that (Prince William's) back to public duties on Wednesday."

Daily Mirror Royal Editor Russell Myers says Prince Harry’s visit to the UK following King Charles's cancer diagnosis could be a “chance” for the pair to reconcile. Buckingham Palace has confirmed the King's diagnosis is not prostate cancer however the cancer was discovered while he was being treated in the hospital for an enlarged prostate. “I understand tonight from sources close to Harry that he is flying to the UK in the coming days which tells you not only the seriousness of the situation is, but will open the door to conversations,” Mr Myers told Sky News Australia. “The fracture of this relationship has been very, very well documented over the last few years. “There’s a lot of hurt in this family, through adversity, it could be a chance for them to come together. “And I think the focus will be very much on the King and his treatment and trying to get a path for his to get better.”

Former Labor Senator Stephen Conroy says the Coalition has to “stick to the message” that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “can’t be trusted”. Mr Conroy’s comments come as the Albanese government announced changes to the stage three tax cuts with the Coalition calling this a broken promise. “I think if the Coalition are able to land that, if their objective is ‘quick we’ve just got to get that tax cut issue off the table ... but what we want to do is build a narrative over the next 18 months that you can’t trust the Prime Minister’ ... that’s what they’ve got to try and aim,” Mr Conroy told Sky News Australia. “Stick to the message that Albo can’t be trusted. “That’s got to be their message."

CommSec’s Tom Piotrowski says the Reserve Bank will “certainly” leave rates on hold at their meeting today and there are hopes of a “softening” in discussion around further rate increases. The Reserve Bank of Australia will meet for the first time in 2024 on Tuesday to make their decision on the official cash rate, which currently sits at 4.35 per cent. “They’re certainly going to leave rates on hold, but there’s a far more expansive format to the RBA’s decision,” Mr Piotrowski told Sky News Australia. “No decision expected today to move interest rates; however, in the light of the moderation in inflation over the course of the last quarter, there are some hopes that you’ll see a softening in the RBA’s discussion around the potential for future rate increases. “That’s what the markets have calibrated their expectation towards.” Presented by CommSec.