A woman is in critical condition after a suspected drug overdose at a Melbourne music festival. It comes one week on from a mass overdose near the same location which sparked calls for action. The 30-year-old woman has reportedly been left fighting for life and remains in a critical condition after a suspected drug overdose. A female teenager was also taken to Royal Melbourne hospital in a stable condition but also to be treated for substance abuse. Victoria police have said they were overall pleased with the behaviour of party goers at Juicy Fest music festival at Melbourne Showgrounds on Friday, but are urging partygoers to “watch out for their mates” and to not take illicit drugs.

UNICEF Spokesperson Tess Ingram says there is “absolute bedlam” in Rafah where over one million people have evacuated down the southern Gaza Strip since Israel began its invasion to annihilate Hamas following the October 7 terrorist attacks. “About 1.5 million people are estimated to be living here in this most southern part of Gaza Strip after being forced to evacuate from the north and middle areas of Gaza where the bombardments have been the most intense,” Ms Ingram told Sky News Australia. “The streets here in Rafah are incredibly, incredibly overcrowded. “So many people living in makeshift shelters built from plastic tarpaulins and blankets of ropes. “These shelters are very wet and muddy and people are incredibly cold hungry and exhausted.”

Australian Greens senator David Shoebridge hopes to get a “better understanding” of where Australian aid can be most effective in Indonesia during his visit to the country. The senator is embarking on a parliamentary tour focused on the country’s health issues with the aim of investigating how Australian aid can help alleviate some of the suffering. “It’s really focused on yes children’s health – some of the inequities, and how Australian aid can address some of those inequities,” Mr Shoebridge told Sky News Australia of his upcoming trip. “Ensuring that Australian aid is going to the places that it can be most effective - to get a better understanding of the needs from one our most important regional neighbours. “And to see how these country-to-country exchanges, our aid, our mutual programmes – see how they can be a benefit to Australia and Indonesia.”

GCTC Executive Manager Racing and Integrity’s Ian Brown has talked about the aspirations of the Gold Coast Turf Club to become a metropolitan club and how “amazing” it was to see the track conquer weather challenges faced in its reopening. “We had 200 millimetres from New Year’s Eve to the Tuesday morning before the meeting,” Mr Brown told Racing Dreams host Tim Gilbert. “Then we got a further seven millimetres on the Friday night – the night before the meeting. “We raced on a good four which was just amazing so its now our job to maintain it. “Gold Coast Turf Club has made no secrets that we want to be a metropolitan club and now we are comfortable we have got a metropolitan track.” In partnership with Aquis Park

Women and children in Gaza have had to have operations without anesthetic, says UNICEF Spokesperson Tess Ingram. “I heard of a 17-year-old girl in Shifa hospital in the north who had her leg amputated without any anesthetic,” Ms Ingram told Sky News Australia. “Also, today I spoke to a woman who had a cesarian without any anesthetic, so it is the stuff of absolute nightmares.” Ms Ingram said the tragedies were “due to a real shortage” of aid and supplies getting into the Gaza Strip. “We have been trying, the UN, to get in as much as we can but there are restrictions on what we can bring in, the process of examining the items in every truck is incredibly slow, so the trickle of aid getting across the border is barely enough.”

Sky News All Star Douglas Murray has been a vocal critic of Hamas since the terror group launched their assault on Israel on October 7th last year. The outspoken commentator has continued this tirade into the new year, publicly blasting individuals and organisations who he sees as supporting Hamas.

Voters in Taiwan are hours away from choosing the Island’s next President. It is a race that has drawn global tension. Countries around the world are concerned about how it will affect ties with China. China claims Taiwan as its own, which has caused hostility between the two nations for an extended period of time. The Chinese Communist Party calls DPP Presidential Candidate Lai Ching-Te a ‘Chinese separatist’.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced $4.7 billion in military funding for Ukraine. Mr Sunak has travelled to Kyiv this week to meet Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. They have signed a bilateral security arrangement. The visit sends a strong message to Russia to show the UK’s support for Ukraine will not stop regardless of the war in the Middle East. Rishi Sunak has said “Vladimir Putin needs to recognise, we’re not going anywhere, I’m here with one clear message, the United Kingdom stands with Ukraine.”

There is increasing pressure for Australia to boost its military presence in the Middle East. Security experts are calling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to step up support for AUKUS partners. The calls come amid fears militant groups in the Middle East could launch retaliatory attacks following a US and UK joint airstrike into Yemen. Foreign Minister Penny Wong will travel to the Middle East on Monday. Ms Wong plans to visit Israeli and Palestinian Authority Leaders in the West Bank territory.

Centre of the American Experiment President John Hinderaker says things are “just spinning out of control” ahead of this year’s US presidential election. “We’ve never seen anything like it," he told Sky News host James Macpherson. “We’ve got the party in power trying to put their number one opponent in prison. “We’ve had two states now rule that Donald Trump can’t be on the ballot in the 2024 election, that matter now in the United States Supreme Court. “So, in many ways, we are in uncharted territory.”

News.com.au Royal Reporter Bronte Coy says there is “probably still some hurt” in Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim’s relationship, which will “take a while to heal”. Prince Joachim will reportedly attend the abdication of his mother without his wife and children. A Palace spokesperson said he will attend, but the children need to go to school. There have been suggestions of tension before 2022, but they publicly came to a head amid the fallout from Queen Margrethe’s decision to strip Joachim’s four children of their titles. “By all current reports, it looks like they won’t be there, which is, of course, drawing some parallels to some other royals that we know with recent Coronations,” Ms Coy told Sky News Australia host Caroline Di Russo. “The statement even sort of echoes to what Meghan and Harry had put out last year when Meghan and the kids didn’t attend that Coronation. “It’s a really significant family occasion and a historic occasion, so you do wonder whether that is playing a role. “While things have been smoothed over to a point, and they all spent Christmas together in Denmark, there is probably still some hurt there as they move on past this. “I think that will take a while to heal, there’s certainly some wounds there, and that may be playing a role in why he’s chosen to attend, and the rest of the family will stay back home.”

Royal commentator Angela Mollard says there is “no suggestion” Crown Prince Frederik’s brother Prince Joachim’s children will attend the Coronation. Reports suggest Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim’s relationship is so strained Prince Joachim is attending his brother’s coronation alone. There have been suggestions of tension before 2022, but they publicly came to a head amid the fallout from Queen Margrethe’s decision to strip Joachim’s four children of their titles. “This, of course, stemmed from when the Queen stripped Prince Joachim’s children of their titles – the four of them in late 2022 [were] Princes and Princesses, they were made Count and Countesses,” Ms Mollard told Sky News Australia host Caroline Di Russo. “At the time, of course, they didn’t know this was about to happen, even though it was apparently discussed, she came in quickly with this decision, and it caused a split in the family. “Mary even stood up for the Queen at that time, saying that these decisions do hurt, but, of course, the family have spent time together subsequent to that split, but the younger brother and his family have moved to Washington now, so they’re not that close. “We think that the younger brother is going to come to the proclamation, but as for his wife and the four children, there’s no suggestion that they are going to be there.”

Royal commentator Angela Mollard says people are “hugely interested” in the Danish and British royals because it is the “greatest living soap opera”. According to a survey by Ritzau, Princess Mary is more popular than her husband, Crown Prince Frederik. While 82 per cent of people believed Frederik is suited for the role, 86 per cent believe Mary will be a good queen. Some royal experts have suggested Queen Margrethe abdicated to fast-track Crown Prince Frederik’s ascension to the throne in order to keep his marriage to Princess Mary intact amid affairs of a rumour. “I think that people are hugely interested – it’s the greatest living soap opera, isn’t it, and we’ve seen that with the British royal family for decades,” Ms Mollard told Sky News Australia host Caroline Di Russo. “I think what they really look at though is ongoing character and purpose – we’ve seen that with the Princess of Wales and her legacy project with children, and I think we’re going to see it with Mary. “If you think about it, Mary lost her mother at the age of 26, the outgoing Queen lost her father and took on the role of Queen when she was 31. “These are both very, very strong women, very purposeful, very dignified, I think there’s a lot in common between the outgoing Queen and the one to follow her, and I think people really go by character, despite them being endlessly fascinated by gossip.”

News.com.au Royal Reporter Bronte Coy says Princess Mary is “more popular” than her husband, Crown Prince Frederik, because of affair rumours that have “dogged him”. According to a survey by Ritzau, Princess Mary is more popular than her husband, Crown Prince Frederik, with 82 per cent of people believing Frederik is suited for the role, while 86 per cent believe Mary will be a good queen. “So the family’s actually been extremely popular for a long time – the outgoing Queen has been extremely popular,” Ms Coy told Sky News Australia host Caroline Di Russo. “She’s seen as extremely down to earth, and people just love her – it’s a very similar sort of situation to what we saw with the late Queen Elizabeth II and Mary and Frederik themselves are really popular – they’re seen to be really connected with the modern issues that people are caring about now. “Mary, for example, is engaged with LGBT rights, reproductive rights and things like that – they poll up in the 80s. “Interestingly, Mary is now more popular than Frederik, and this is where the challenge has been – a lot of royal experts in Denmark have pointed out that that has declined for him a little because of these rumours that have dogged him. “That’s going to be a challenge moving forward.”

News.com.au Royal Reporter Bronte Coy says it has been a “weird few months” for the Danish royal family because of rumours of an affair which “threw a spanner in the works”. Some royal experts have suggested Queen Margrethe abdicated to fast-track Crown Prince Frederik’s ascension to the throne to keep his marriage to Princess Mary intact amid affairs of a rumour. “It’s certainly interesting timing,” Ms Coy told Sky News Australia host Caroline Di Russo. “It’s been a weird few months for the royals who are, traditionally, extremely popular – people love Mary and Frederick, and they view theirs as this fairytale marriage. “When rumours surfaced a few months ago that Frederick was potentially allegedly having an affair, something which has been denied by the woman that was named at the centre of it, it really kind of threw a spanner in the works for the family. “The fact that this has come after the Queen has been on the throne for more than half a century … it does send a message of family unity, seeing Prince Frederik and Princess Mary step up to the plate now and have that bestowed upon them by the outgoing Queen. “That will certainly help their image, [but] it will also add further scrutiny.”

Royal commentator Angela Mollard says outgoing Queen Margarethe was “very quick” in her decision to abdicate, giving Crown Prince Frederik only a few days’ notice. A Danish newspaper has reported that Crown Prince Frederik found out about his mother’s abdication on December 28, just three days before she announced it in her New Year’s Eve speech. “It was only three days’ notice that he apparently got, but I can actually believe this because the Queen, of course, when she stripped the younger brother of the title, she only gave five days’ notice, which wasn’t much at all,” Ms Mollard told Sky News Australia host Caroline Di Russo. “She’s very quick to make a decision. “It sheds light on the fact that, of course, when Frederik and Mary were here in December, they can’t have known that they were going to be stepping forward into this role.”

Live to Copenhagen, where excitement is building in two days until Denmark welcomes a new king and queen. The love story of Prince Frederik and Princess Mary. Plus, the family feud threatens to overshadow the ceremony as the guest list is announced.  See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

Sky News Australia host Caroline Di Russo has pointed out the “irresistible comparisons” between Denmark’s soon-to-be Queen Mary and the UK’s Princess of Wales. Miss Di Russo’s compliments of the pair come ahead of the Proclamation of Denmark’s new ‘Aussie Queen’ this Sunday. “There are the numerous and irresistible comparisons with Katherine, Princess of Wales,” Ms Di Russo said. “Both women are known for their immaculate senses of style and their dedication to causes and patronages within their sphere of influence. “It's not hard to see that the future of these two European royal families are in very good hands with these exceptional women in senior roles.”

Australian clinical psychologist Dr Robi Sonderegger specialises in treating trauma arising from war and natural disasters and was invited to conduct seminars with members of the Ukrainian government, last month, including President Zelensky’s staff. It is almost two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, sparking a war that has left many thousands dead and injured on both sides. Zelensky’s wife is the patron for mental health in Ukraine, and Dr Sonderegger was asked to train them how best to work with a population traumatised by tragedy. “People respond to the tragedy of war in a variety of different ways – for example, two people can experience the exact same tragedy, and yet one person can be deeply traumatised, and another relatively ok,” Dr Sonderegger told Sky News Australia host James Macpherson. “Another person can experience a near-death encounter and be relatively resilient in response to it, whereas another person can just witness that near-death encounter and experience signs and symptoms of post-traumatic stress.”

The government's response to Peter Dutton’s call to boycott Woolworths was "as hilarious as it was predictable", says Sky News host James Macpherson. The Opposition Leader called for Australians to boycott Woolworths after the supermarket decided not to sell Australia Day merchandise. Mr Macpherson said Agriculture Minister Murray Watt’s response was to dismiss Mr Dutton's comments as “silly culture war games” while claiming the government was focused on inflation. “Next, they'll tell us the arsonist is focused on the war on fire,” Mr Macpherson said. “This government has done zero about inflation, leaving all the heavy lifting to the Reserve Bank of Australia and then demonising its former boss, Philip Lowe, for increasing rates.”