Sky News host Paul Murray says there has been a significant number of children who either don’t return to school or actually leave school early. His comments come as a report by The Herald Sun revealed why these children left school. “One of the reasons, well, it was all to do with the COVID pandemic,” Mr Murray said. “About the stress and anxieties of being locked up at home. “And the failures of the education system, of course, over multiple years."

Melbourne Deputy Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece says a protesting is an “extreme act”. Mr Reece told Sky News host Paul Murray that “by definition” it has to be. “You’re sort of saying, look the parliamentary process of law-making, the usual way we go about changing laws and regulations is not working," he said. “So people take to the streets to have their voice heard. “So by definition, it’s almost an extreme act.”

A woman has reportedly lost part of her leg after she was attacked by a shark. The attack occurred at a popular swimming spot in Sydney Harbour. Several ambulance units, including a helicopter rushed to Billyard Ave in Elizabeth Bay about at around 7.45pm. A woman in her 30s was pulled from the water. A New South Wales ambulance spokesperson said the woman suffered ‘serious injuries’ to her right leg in the attack.

Sky News host Paul Murray says people are “turning” on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as the tax returns Australians are likely to see won’t touch the $200 more they are spending due to the cost-of-living crisis. “The tax return that the prime minister wants you to thank him for doesn’t get anywhere near $200 a week,” Mr Murray said. “Working Queenslanders spending $200 more than they earn, well – 15, 22, 32, and 41 dollars is not going to do a damn thing. “Frankly it’s like fighting a bushfire with a bucket. “For the prime minister, he gets to say, we are doing something – if the reality is a family spending $200 more than they are earning, the tax cut doesn’t touch the sides – that’s why people are turning on the prime minister.”

History lecturer and author Stephen Chavura says no one who agrees with the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full should be allowed “anywhere near” the office of the Governor General. Both of the apparent candidates for the Governor General role, Linda Burney and Tom Calma, identify as Indigenous Australians and were advocates for the Voice to Parliament referendum. Mr Chavura told Sky News host Andrew Bolt that the Uluru Statement from the Heart “calls for two Australia’s”. “The Governor General is there to bring about unity in Australia," he said. “Any Governor General who signs up or enthusiastically agrees with the Uluru Statement of the Heart believes that Australia as it is, is a colonial project, and we need to create two sovereignties.”

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the Albanese government’s decision to pause funding to the United Nations agency UNRWA over allegations some of its staff were involved in the October 7 attacks in Israel is “not sufficient”. Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced on Saturday that Australia will join the United States and Canada in pausing its funding to the UN agency as an investigation continues on several of its employees after claims emerged they were involved in Hamas's attacks in Israel on October 7. On Friday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees said several employees were allegedly involved in the Hamas attacks on Israel. Mr Bolt said pausing the aid funding to UNRWA is "not sufficient, cutting it is”. The pause comes after Ms Wong announced last week that an additional $21.5 million in humanitarian assistance will be sent to the Middle East as the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza continues.

Sky News host Liz Storer says Gaza is one of the most “radicalised strips” of earth in the world against Israel. Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced on Saturday that Australia will join the United States and Canada in pausing its funding to the UN agency as an investigation continues on several of its employees after claims emerged they were involved in Hamas's attacks in Israel on October 7. On Friday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees said several employees were allegedly involved in the Hamas attacks on Israel. “What’s truly disturbing about today’s revelation, which isn’t really a revelation – this is just a day of vindication because now it’s in the mainstream media so oh, now it’s true,” she said. “The truth of the matter is Penny Wong doubled funding to UNRWA in September 2022, so this is a government who has always believed in the two-state solution even now when it should be out of the question. “Who in their right mind thinks that Palestine should be recognised as a legitimate state so that they can amass a military, elect another leadership like Hamas?”

Australian Strategic Policy Institute's Malcolm Davis says the Australian government turning Taipan helicopters into scrap instead of giving them to Ukraine is a “huge, wasted opportunity”. Mr Davis told Sky News host Sharri Markson it could have assisted Ukraine's army with “battle mobility”. “To get their troops from one location to another quickly, to defend against Russian attacks. “More importantly, they could’ve been used for medevac, to save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers that have been wounded. “But instead, what we’re seeing is these helicopters being ripped apart, destroyed and buried.”

Sky News host Chris Kenny has slammed South Africa’s “topsy turvy” genocide accusation against Israel in the International Court of Justice as “grotesque”. The African nation alleged Israel knew of the number of civilians it was killing and had shown an "incontrovertible" intent to commit genocide. The United Nations court on Friday imposed temporary measures against Israel to ensure genocidal acts are not committed in Gaza but refused to call for a ceasefire. Mr Kenny stressed the only way to protect innocent Palestinians and save Israeli hostages is for Hamas to lay down its arms. “Let's be clear, we should all be vitally concerned about the loss of innocent lives in Gaza,” he said. “No matter that the numbers are unknown and no matter that Hamas has created the situation, and put innocent people's lives in danger, we all want the loss of innocent lives to stop immediately. “But here's the thing; if that's what you want, then there is only one thing that your protests should call for. “They should demand that Hamas lays down its arms and returns every single hostage being held now, before then surrendering its own leadership to Israel.”

A columnist is calling for the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, to reveal more details about her health issues. “You don’t find me sticking up for the royals very often,” Sky News host Chris Kenny said. “But there’s this columnist today saying the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, who is in hospital, we all know, having abdominal surgery, she’s in there for over a week, it can’t be something easy. “She’s demanding that she should be telling everybody what’s wrong with her because it might be a signal to other women or whatever. “I say, butt out, the woman is entitled to her privacy.”

Eminence Advisory Dimitri Burshtein says the Albanese government's decision to reform the stage three tax cuts is just a “ticking time bomb”. The Prime Minister broke a key election promise and decided to change the former Coalition government's stage three tax cuts. “They're just reinserting the 37 per cent tax bracket and it will just result in those low to middle wage earners being kicked into the higher tax bracket or higher tax brackets along the way,” Mr Burshtein told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “This tax change that’s been proposed by the government isn’t allowing people to keep more of their money, they're taking money. “This is actually a tax increase for a large cohort of people.”

Legendary Australian property developer Lang Walker, who passed away aged 78 over the weekend, was a “true leader of our industry”, says Urban Taskforce CEO Tom Forrest. “He was a man who was great at selling a vision,” Mr Forrest told Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood. Mr Walker’s contributions span from urban development, housing, industrial development, and retail, all of which left a lasting legacy on Australia. Lang Walker and his Walker Corporation saved and redeveloped the Woolloomooloo pier in Sydney before he turned to upscale apartments, hotels, and restaurants. Mr Walker also reinvigorated the Broadway shopping centre and has four buildings currently being built in Parramatta, effectively creating a second Sydney CBD. Outside of Sydney, the property giant made significant developments in Melbourne, Adelaide and the Sunshine Coast.

The Prime Minister has “destroyed” his credibility after making changes to the former Coalition government’s stage three tax cuts, according to Sky News host Chris Kenny. Anthony Albanese was booed by fans at the Australian Open men’s final at Rod Laver Arena on Sunday night as MC Todd Woodbridge welcomed him during the trophy ceremony. It marks a very different reaction to what the Prime Minister experienced at last year's Australian Open, where the crowd erupted into cheers. Speaking to Melbourne's Fox FM radio on Monday morning, Mr Albanese dismissed the boos as a “tradition” in Australian sport. “Sure there's all these other reasons that people might not like Albo – there’s the cost of living issues, there's weakness on Israel, some will be angry he butchered the Voice, others angry he tried it on, but in the end, we all know why he's suddenly worthy of a humiliating, public booing,” Mr Kenny said. “Because he took us for mugs. Because he said one thing and is doing another. Because he broke a promise. Because he lied. “Albanese's broken promise on tax cuts has destroyed his credibility, it has broken that bond of trust with the electorate.”

Independent Kylea Tink says changes to stage three tax cuts have left residents in her electorate concerned that the Albanese government is abandoning long-term reform in favour of short-term wins. “The sense I’m getting from the people in North Sydney is they can understand why this makes sense in the short term, but they are very concerned about the longer term reform that the stage three tax cuts were supposed to be the final part of,” Ms Tink told Sky News Australia. “That's kind of what’s getting lost here in this debate is that stage three was not designed to just hang out by itself - we’ve already had stage one, we had stage two. “This was a process of reform promised under the last government to bring our personal income scheme more into line to what it will need to be for us to move forward as an economy. “The wholesale flip on that at this particular point in time has probably got people wondering more about ... what would a Labor government see as a progressive tax reform program look like? What does it look like in three years’ time? “The people who are set to benefit from this who previously weren’t will very quickly now find themselves up in that next tax bracket, and before long, they’ll be paying the 37 per cent.”

Rapper Snoop Dogg has seemingly ended his feud with former US President Donald Trump during an interview with the Sunday Times. Despite many years of criticising Trump and his supporters, it seems the rapper has had a change of heart when asked about the former president. “Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me. He has done only great things for me. He pardoned Michael Harris, so I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump,” he said. Michael Harris was a former associate of record label Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight and had received a prison sentence of 25 years to life but was pardoned after serving 30 years. Harris was imprisoned for drug trafficking and attempted murder. Trump’s decision to pardon Harris, along with 69 others, was praised by Snoop Dogg at the time when he spoke to the New York Times, saying: “I love what they did”. “That’s great work for the president and his team on the way out,” he said.

Sky News US Analyst Michael Ware says the death of US servicemen in Jordan is “an expansion of the war” and potentially makes it “much more inflammatory” in America. Mr Ware’s comments come after three US servicemen had been killed and at least 34 others injured in a drone attack on an army base near the Jordan-Syria border. The attack is believed to have happened at an army outpost called Tower 22 in northeast Jordan, with the US claiming Iranian-backed radical militants are responsible. “If this was in Jordan, that opens up yet another front in this proxy war,” Mr Ware told Sky News Australia. “I’m already counting eight or nine fronts in this war. “This is an expansion of the war and potentially makes it much more inflammatory in America.”

Manager of Opposition Business Paul Fletcher says Labor’s changes to the stage three tax cuts are a “real failure” for tax reform. Labor has decided to break its election promise on stage three tax cuts following an emergency caucus meeting last week to address Australia’s cost of living crisis. “The stage three tax cuts were part of a structured plan to achieve meaningful tax reform,” he told Sky News Australia. “Very much designed to encourage aspirational Australians, to encourage activity and productivity in our economy. “It is very disappointing to see that fundamental aspect of this reform just completely junked by Anthony Albanese based upon short-term political imperatives.”

Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says things just go “from bad to worse” for former US president Donald Trump in court in the US state of New York. A US jury has found Mr Trump must pay more than $US83 million to E. Jean Carroll in a defamation trial. The jury decided that the former president should pay $US18.3 million in compensatory damages and $US65 million in punitive damages. “I don’t think Donald Trump will be hurt at all in the polls,” Mr Mulvaney told Sky News Australia. “And, as usual, it might him just a little bit.”

Nationals Leader David Littleproud has criticised the Labor government, saying they have brought in this “class warfare” with their changes to the stage three tax cuts. “The reforms that were put in place were the final stages of giving everyone a fair go and making sure that we had a better tax system,” he told Sky News Australia. “Why wouldn’t you have left the taxation reform instead of pitting one Australian against the other because of their job? “Rather than actually having this class warfare that Labor has brought in. “He’s already divided the country in the Voice – did he have to do it again?”

Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says there’s “a lot of spin” around the Albanese government’s decision to change stage three tax cuts. Labor has decided to break an election promise following an emergency caucus meeting last week by making changes to the stage three tax cuts amid a cost of living crisis in Australia. “If you’re going to break a promise like that, I’d be giving people $40 a week at the middle and end, to be honest with you,” Mr Clennell said. “Then they actually feel it, they notice it, and the other problem with it, of course, is it’s not until July. “Politically, it certainly isn’t the smoothest or best solution.”