Bondi Partners Senior Advisor Peter McGauran says Labor’s stage three broken promise is “not a net positive” for the government because Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s reputation has “taken a hit” despite the tax cuts for all message. “The government doesn’t expect the backflip or the lie, depending on your point of view, to gain that many votes,” Mr McGauran told Sky News Australia. “This is all about containing the loss from the breach of promise. “Dutton has done the only pragmatic realistic thing, which is they will not oppose the government’s proposal, which abandons stage three as the Liberals proposed initially because it would have been waved through the Senate anyway. “Dutton has done the right thing. “It is not a net positive to the government because Albanese’s personal reputation has taken a hit, but I do think … tax cuts for all have mitigated for them, and that’s to the Liberals’ disadvantage.”

The bodies of three US soldiers killed in a drone strike in Jordan are being flown back to an air base in the state of Delaware. US President Joe Biden will be there to honour the sacrifice. He also faces pressure to respond to the attack. Critics argue he is showing his hand to the enemy, and the response should have happened already. “They’re pushing us around in the Middle East,” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said. “They’re not going to stop until we hit Iran itself.”

The Albanese government has formally recognised the October 7 Hamas assault as an overseas terrorist attack. It is more than 100 days since the attack in Southern Israel occurred. The designation has triggered the Australian Victim of Terrorism Overseas Payment. Australian residents who are harmed, or whose close family member is killed, as a result of an overseas terrorist act, are eligible for the one-off payment of $75,000 in financial assistance. The Opposition last month accused the government of dragging its feet on the issue, which is said was delaying much-needed financial help for those Australians impacted by the October 7 attacks.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will pledge $1.5 million in memory of late Dunkley MP Peta Murphy to improve the outcomes of people with metastatic breast cancer. The funding will assist with identifying patterns in delayed diagnosis, cancer recurrence and survival. Ms Murphy died in December after battling metastatic breast cancer. He will make the announcement today at a breast cancer event in Dunkley. It is the electorate Ms Murphy held.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has officially launched Labor candidate Jodie Belyea’s campaign for the closely contested Melbourne seat of Dunkley. “So, what we know is that we’ve got to do better than just average,” Mr Albanese said. “That’s why it’s important that we’ve got a candidate who is anything but average.” The prime minister will spend a full day on the hustings in Dunkley today, where he will sell his controversial revised stage three income tax cut package before it comes before the Parliament next week. “Our government knows that these communities have cost of living pressures as the number one issue. “You can’t just wring your hands and whine about it and complain like Peter Dutton and the Coalition do - you’ve got to do something about it.”

Independent MP Zali Steggall has called for the 100-year-old “thriving” Balgowlah Golf Course to be shut down and handed to the local school, says former professional golfer Mark Allen. Mr Allen joined Sky News host Steve Price to discuss the push to shut down the popular golf course. “When I came back on my little trip I was looking at all the parks everywhere – nobody was in a park on a beautiful Melbourne day, I went past Brighton Golf Club and there are people everywhere enjoying themselves,” Mr Allen said. “The only parks that are worth going to are one where people carry around a gold club. “But they forget that people pay green fees to keep these beautiful courses the way they are.”

One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson has unleashed on proposed IR reforms suggesting to ban bosses from contacting employees outside of work hours. “What a joke – how ridiculous is that,” Ms Hanson told Sky News Australia host Steve Price. Ms Hanson explained parliamentary employees are paid substantially with bonuses in lieu of overtime. “They get that if they are called at any certain times,” she said. "When you want to run a business or you have something to do, especially in parliamentary offices, you have something that pops up. “What do we do with people in emergency services? “I think it is ridiculous – I am fed up with the unions in this country.”

Author Douglas Murray has urged the Chicago Council to call for a ceasefire "at home” before they afford a foreign policy following their decision to vote for Israel to enter into a ceasefire with Hamas. “All these people called for a ceasefire from Israel before Israel had even fired anything,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “Personally, I think it would be much more useful for the citizens of Chicago to urge the council of Chicago to call for a ceasefire in Chicago. “Because Chicago has one of the highest gun crime rates anywhere in America and in any developed country. “I would urge them to look to home before they decide they have home so well sorted out they can also afford a foreign policy in Chicago.”

Author Douglas Murray says Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu knows he is under “incredible international pressure” to wrap up the war in Gaza. Mr Murray sat with Mr Netanyahu for an interview in which he relayed his experience of Israel’s Prime Minister afterwards to Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi. “He also knows Israel has been through multiple rounds of wars in Gaza and everyone starts again because the conditions for the next war are effectively laid down in the ceasefire of the previous one,” he said. “He knows that, if Hamas is left in any way standing, they will regroup and in another couple of years the same thing will happen again. “So, he is trying to fulfill his objective of destroying Hamas – at the same time, he is trying to negotiate the release of the remaining hostages.”

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have "a bunch" of projects in development, according to Netflix. Chief content officer Bela Bajaria told Hollywood insiders the couple has multiple projects – including unscripted and early works. One film project is thought to be an adaptation of the novel 'Meet Me at the Lake'. The rights to the novel were acquired by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex last year. Signed in 2020, their five-year deal with the streaming service is said to be worth around $150 million.

Sky News host Rita Panahi has called for Victorian authorities to take swift action to “dismantle” a camp set up by Indigenous activists in Kings Domain. “Kings Domain is for all Victorians, always was, always will be, or at least it should be unless we are betrayed by milquetoast politicians desperate to appease the unappeasable,” she said. The activists, including Robbie Thorpe, the uncle of Senator Lidia Thorpe, are demanding Kings Domain be renamed and handed to the Indigenous community, with Mr Thorpe vowing to remain in the park until his demands are met. “It would be wrong to assume that the action taken by Mr Thorpe and other radicals is supported by all Indigenous Australians,” Ms Panahi said. “But too often that is the simplistic view offered by the media who uncritically accept and regurgitate whatever tripe the activist class feeds them.”

Former Pakistan president staffer Raoof Hasan says no political leaders of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan’s party have been allowed to meet him in jail. The former Pakistani prime minister and his wife received a 14-year prison sentence for the illegal selling of state gifts. “The administration has not allowed me to meet him – in fact, they have not allowed any political leader from the party to meet him,” he told Sky News host Erin Molan. “I have about seven or eight permissions from the court that I should be allowed to meet him, and when we get in touch with the administration at the jail, they call me over, make me wait … five hours and then say, well they’ve not been permitted to let me meet him. “So until to date, ever since he was taken in, no political leader of the party has been allowed to meet him, such as the level of suppression and oppression in this country.”

UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has flagged the possibility of his country recognising Palestinian statehood as a practical step towards a two-state solution. Mr Cameron set a high watermark for recognition, saying there would need to be a ceasefire in Gaza and Hamas would need to relinquish control of the territory. Most of Africa, South America and Asia already recognise Palestine as a nation. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will “not compromise” on full Israeli control of Gaza after the war. David Cameron’s shift in language is notable considering the upcoming election in the United Kingdom.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has called for the Prime Minister to sack Foreign Minister Penny Wong on her stance that funding to UNRWA may eventually be restored. UNRWA has received Australian funding every year since 1951, with another $6 million having been pledged last month. Israeli intelligence documents alleged that some staff members of UNRWA were involved in the Hamas attacks on October 7 – which led Australia and several other nations to suspend funding. On Thursday, at a press conference, Ms Wong indicated it was her view that UNRWA funding may be eventually restored as it is the only organisation in the international system which provides substantive humanitarian aid for those in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Mr Dutton took aim at the stance, saying Anthony Albanese needs to show “strength of leadership” and cut off funding to UNRWA funding permanently.

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Opposition leader Peter Dutton has been heavily pressured to reveal the Coalition’s stance on the Labor government’s changes to the stage three tax cuts. Questions are being raised over whether the Coalition will wind back any tax cuts given to lower and middle income Australians, which would likely be legislated and landing in pay packets by the next election. The Opposition was able to defer their response to the stage three tax cuts changes for several days. The Coalition has a few options on what they can do in response to the changes, such as keeping the changes which means they do not promise a point of difference to Labor. They could also partly reinstate what they originally planned for stage three tax cuts instead, or they can reinstate it in full, which they need big savings for.

Multiple people have been killed after a small plane crashed in Clearwater, Florida, with the aircraft hitting a mobile home park. Clearwater Fire Chief Scott Ehlers said the plane crashed into one home, causing a fire that spread to three other homes in the Bayside Waters mobile home park. Ehlers has confirmed there were multiple casualties in the plane crash but has not specified how many as of yet. The Clearwater Fire Department posted to X after they arrived at the crash site. "We’re on scene of a small plane crash at a mobile home park south of Clearwater Mall. Multiple mobile homes have caught fire. Firefighters from multiple jurisdictions are on scene,” they posted. The Federal Aviation Administration spoke to Fox 13 Tampa Bay and confirmed a Beechcraft Bonanza V35 aircraft crashed. The FAA officials stated the plane’s pilot reported engine failure before the crash.

Joe Biden is about to embark on the fight of his life when he contends for another term of presidency at the end of this year. But there’s one issue that could be Biden’s undoing. That issue is the border. Many commentators say the border crisis is Joe Biden’s biggest failure as president, reflecting his weak grip on power and inability to lead. And this failure is translating to record low polling numbers for the President. Sky News All Stars Kristin Tate, Rita Panahi and Liz Storer dissect Biden’s border failure and analyse if it will be the issue that costs Joe Biden another term in office.

#shorts Sky News host Chris Kenny has revealed that the elite US university, Harvard has been dealt a huge financial blow after their weak stance on antisemitism in the institution.

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