Sky News host Liz Storer says “the needle hasn’t budged” on Albanese after Newspoll shows the tax cut changes are a popular move. “It would be such a win for Labor to turn around and be like ‘we tried give more money back to you and then the Greens, the Liberals, the Coalition wouldn’t let us, we tried’ because obviously the measure has polled incredibly popular,” Ms Storer said. “That was never in doubt. “But what we’ve seen is the needle hasn’t budged on two-part preferred. “He is still coming up as better PM – but what counts is votes … it doesn’t matter how popular a move you’ve made is unless that translates to votes, nothing is more important to any government than getting re-elected and they are not seeing that in the polling yet.”

Sky News host Caleb Bond says according to Newspoll 62 per cent of Australians support Labor’s tax cut changes “even though we’ve seen nothing”. “We’ve got to talk about the stage three tax cuts,” Mr Bond said. “Even though we’ve seen nothing. “Apart from the vague promise of $15 extra a week. “This is popular with the electorate.”

Sky News host Paul Murray says the new tax cuts for people on “low-income wages” won’t save their lives. “In this report it shows people who are on low-income wages or people who are on pensions they continue to do it particularly tough,” Mr Murray said. “The garbage, the BS and the spin, that they really care about the people who are doing it most tough in the country. “The people who tell us that a tax cut of $14 a week is going to be enough to turn somebody’s life around on $40,000. “It is never going to be able to save those people’s lives.”

Sky News host Paul Murray says trucks moving freight in and out of Melbourne could be slugged with a new tax on containers. “In Victoria there is a conversation happening as we speak about even further increasing the amount that it costs for things to move from the Port of Melbourne around Melbourne and then out to the rest of Victoria,” Mr Murray said. “The Victorian premier is seriously considering a new proposal that would add between $150 to $250 to any truck that wishes to drive freight out of the Port of Melbourne. “The trucks will be slugged with a tiered tax. “Of $150 to $250 per container.”

The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan says the US’ airstrikes on Iran-backed militant groups are a “symbolic retaliation” by President Joe Biden. The US and UK have launched strikes on Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen on Sunday following strikes by the United States in Syria and Iraq on Saturday. “Biden deserves high marks for his solidarity with Israel,” he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “He is much better than the Democratic Party, that may be because he was never educated at Harvard. “He still works out that if an Islamist death cult attacks a liberal democracy you go with the liberal democracy.”

Express Online Political Editor David Maddox says the centre of London has basically been “taken over” by pro-Palestine protests. Pro-Palestine rallies continue across the world to oppose Israel’s attacks on Hamas. Mr Maddox told Sky News host Peta Credlin that it “says a lot” about the left in the UK. “There’s a large kind of Muslim vote in the left," he said. “It’s quite disturbing.“

Writer and broadcaster Esther Krakue says King Charles using his recent surgery to advocate for men to get regular health check-ins is showing the “value” the Royal Family brings to the Commonwealth. The King was seen waving to the public in good spirits when he left the London Clinic on Monday. “The republican movement in this country has stayed at around 20 per cent of the general population,” Ms Krakue told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “So by in large, the population has always been in support of the Royal Family. “I think the King’s openness about his surgery and how he has basically done that to advocate for men to get their prostates checked out has really shone a light on the actual value on the institution.”

Express Online Political Editor David Maddox says Palestine is a “really totemic issue" for the left. Pro-Palestine rallies continue across the world to oppose Israel’s attacks on Hamas. Mr Maddox told Sky News host Peta Credlin that he has never put his “finger on why”. “I assume it’s because Israel is so closely associated with America," he said. “I think that’s part of it.”

China has again shown its contempt for our government by sentencing an Australian dissident to death. Plus, a man is on the run for an alleged acid attack in Britain, Esther Krakue joins the show to discuss. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

Sky News host Chris Kenny has called for the government to index the tax thresholds every year just as they index the alcohol and petrol tax takes. Alcohol drinkers are set to pay more with the excise to increase by almost two per cent on Monday. Drinkers will now pay $101.85 in tax per litre of pure alcohol. While this happens, Mr Kenny explained how the government will reap a high proportion of people’s revenue as they are pushed through higher tax thresholds through bracket creep. “It hurts you and helps the government and those tax thresholds don’t go up automatically, they are not indexed, they stay the same under law no matter what happens to inflation,” he said. “So in this case, the lack of indexation boosts the government's coffers because our wages are pushed above static thresholds. See, how they win every way?”

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s broken promise on stage three tax cuts is the "most egregious breach of trust I’ve seen”, says Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor. “It’s clear from what we’ve heard today that Labor’s been working on this for many months and Treasury, in fact potentially for many, many months on how they would break this promise,” Mr Taylor told Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood. “So we will take our time to get the right outcome here for the Australian people. “But as always, we support simpler, lower, fairer taxes. “We’re the ones who actually put this legislation in place – I should say, with the support of the Prime Minister and the Treasurer.”

The late Queen thought that Meghan Markle's wedding dress was “too white” for a divorcee, a new book claims. Royal commentator Angela Mollard sat down with Sky News host Caroline Di Russo to discuss the new revelations revealed about the Royal Family in the book ‘My Mother And I’ written by Ingrid Sewid. The book claimed that the late monarch wasn’t fond of Meghan’s wedding dress colour as she believed it was “too white” for a divorcee to wear at a church wedding. “In the monarch’s view, it was not appropriate for a divorcee getting remarried in church to look quite so flamboyantly virginal,” Ms Seward wrote in an excerpt of the book. The book also revealed that Queen Elizabeth wasn't happy with the then-Prince Charles walking Meghan down the aisle.

Liberal Senator Gerard Rennick says the Coalition Opposition will “always welcome tax cuts for working Australians”. “The fact is, under the Albanese Labor government, the cost of living for households has increased by $8,000,” Mr Rennick told Sky News Australia. “Anthony Albanese still needs to come out and explain how he’s going to lower the cost of living because you can cut taxes but the rate of tax he’s cutting isn’t keeping up with the cost of living. Mr Rennick’s comments come as a Shadow Cabinet meeting is scheduled for Monday night to discuss what the Opposition should do. The rest of the Liberal Party will meet on Tuesday.

The ASX 200 ended the day down on Monday by 0.95 per cent. Sky News Business Reporter Edward Boyd said the market dropped “pretty sharply” this morning. “Pushed lower by mining stocks, utilities and energy companies,” he said. “Rising bond yields and falling commodity prices, they’re the main reason for the market fall. “After the first two hours of trading, the ASX 200, it was down about 1.4 per cent – but you can see it did recover a bit in the afternoon – it still finished down almost a per cent.”

Independent MP Allegra Spender speaks about her electorate's reaction to the government's stage three tax cut changes following the latest Newspoll revealing 62 per cent of Australians back the changes. "I’m surprised it’s not higher," she told Sky News Australia. She said Wentworth is one of the electorates "most affected" as it has the "biggest group of people" who will lose out on the changes. "People are worried about the broken promise piece, but I think also, certainly what I’m hearing is that a lot of people really need support right now and they’re looking at whatever support they can get and are very grateful for it. “But … there are a bunch of people out there who were relying on it and who were also gutted that they’re not going to get what they had expected. “And so some of their choices that they’ve made right now are also going to be pretty tough.”

Facebook is celebrating twenty years since it first launched. The social network has more than 3 billion users worldwide. “I think it was momentous at the time,” Social Media Analyst Matt Navarra said. “The ability for people to connect with someone else for free on the other side of the world. “It really was groundbreaking.”

Independent MP Allegra Spender says housing is the “biggest cost of living issue” in Wentworth and anywhere in the country. Ms Spender said the average rent of a unit in Bondi is $900 a week. “Now if you don’t want to be in what they call ‘rental stress’ where you’re spending more than 30 per cent of your income on rent, you need to earn $150,000," she told Sky News Australia. "So that’s really what people in Wentworth are facing, they just have really high rents and mortgages but frankly it’s across the country. "Older generations, people who own their own homes are still worried about their kids and their grandkids and younger generations are just feeling completely locked out."

President Joe Biden has declined a pre-game Super Bowl interview with CBS News for a second consecutive year. Over the last few years, an interview with the President before the Super Bowl has become a tradition that is now in danger of dying out. It was confirmed on Saturday Biden will not take part in CBS’s pre-game build-up to Super Bowl LVIII on February 11. Biden’s decision to decline an interview with Fox News last year was believed to have been because of Biden’s strained relationship with Fox News. The President’s decision to decline the interview is puzzling as his approval rating drops to 37 per cent, according to an NBC News poll on Sunday. With Donald Trump currently the leading Republican candidacy, there’s a good chance November will see a presidential rematch between the two.

Writer and broadcaster Esther Krakue speaks about the latest changes to the Royal Family’s official website which have seen Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moved “basically to the bottom” of the landing page. "There was a stipulation underneath Prince Harry’s bit that said that him are Meghan are going to continue to work with the King to fulfil their various patronages and to uphold the interests of the King and the Royal Family,” Ms Krakue told Sky News host Caroline Di Russo. “That has also been tweaked. “They’re basically a footnote on the Royal Family website which corresponds with the reality of the situation – they clearly have no interests in upholding any kind of support for what the King represents. "They are more interested in sort of the deal with Netflix and producing content and going to Jamaica to sit at film premieres and all of that."

Manhunt underway after grandmother killed, woman dies in boat crash in Syndey, RBA to release economic forecast this week, Victoria police condemn protester violence, parliament back for first sitting week, independent review into supermarket sector, price of alcohol to rise after tax hike, U.S. & UK conduct strikes in Middle East and Facebook celebrates 20th anniversary. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.