Sky News host Rita Panahi says New South Wales Liberal Party President Don Harwin “has to go” after his “stuff up”. The New South Wales Liberals are in chaos after a paperwork blunder saw the party fail to lodge applications for all candidates in the upcoming local government elections. “The Liberals – there’s just no meritocracy there; there’s no accountability there,” Ms Panahi said. “If there’s to be any accountability, this character has to go. “He cannot stick around with a stuff up of this proportion.”

Shadow Housing Minister Michael Sukkar says Independent MP Zali Steggall is “calling Australians racist” after she accused Opposition Leader Peter Dutton of racism. Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell has revealed Mr Dutton will seek legal advice after Ms Steggall called him a “racist” over his stance opposing the government giving Palestinians visas. “What people like Zali Steggall and others who start pointing their finger and calling racism, they’re calling Australians racist,” Mr Sukkar told Sky News Australia. “Australians want secure borders.”

Shadow Housing Minister Michael Sukkar says the Albanese government is potentially bringing to Australia the supporters of a “listed terrorist organisation”. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has argued Prime Minister Albanese misled parliament by quoting selectively from the ABC’s interview with ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess last week in terms of security checks on the Palestinians who came here. “If you look at the Syria example as the most recent relevant comparison, we were bringing in people being persecuted by ISIS,” Mr Sukkar told Sky News Australia. “Now, the sticking point here is that the government could be potentially bringing in supporters and sympathisers of the listed terrorist organisation we’re referring to.”

Shadow Housing Minister Michael Sukkar says the Albanese government thinks there is “nothing wrong” with Hamas sympathisers coming to Australia. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has argued Prime Minister Albanese misled parliament by quoting selectively from the ABC’s interview with ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess last week in terms of security checks on the Palestinians who came here. “They [the Labor government] have a cavalier attitude clearly to this issue,” Mr Sukkar told Sky News Australia. “They think there’s nothing wrong with bringing Hamas sympathisers and supporters, potentially, into this country. “That is the fundamental disagreement here.”

Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic has accused Opposition Leader Peter Dutton of “playing politics” following his controversial call for a blanket ban on humanitarian visas for Palestinians. The Liberal Party leader called for a blanket ban on arrivals from the war-torn enclave on Wednesday, prompting several Labor ministers to publicly reject the idea. “Peter Dutton is playing politics on this issue in the face of one of the worst humanitarian crises we've seen,” Mr Husic told Sky News Australia. “If it comes to a choice between national unity and social cohesion versus dividing, Peter Dutton always makes the wrong choice. Always. “He's always opted to erode social cohesion and make calls that are in political interest rather than national interest. “I think that speaks volumes about Peter Dutton, someone who is seeking to be an alternative Prime Minister.”

Shadow Housing Minister Michael Sukkar has slammed the Albanese government for its “outrageous” action of “circumventing process” on visas. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has argued Prime Minister Albanese misled parliament by quoting selectively from the ABC’s interview with ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess last week in terms of security checks on the Palestinians who came here. “We are circumventing proper process to ensure the integrity of our migration system and ultimately to ensure the safety of Australians by having an expedited process that we know for a fact means some people have arrived here with no face-to-face checks,” Mr Sukkar told Sky News Australia. “This idea that you can bring somebody in on a visa in 24 hours and then just to glibly say we ran through the same process that that 12-month process took for the Coalition is outrageous.”

Sky News contributor Des Houghton says one of Queensland's most respected doctors has come out and claimed men in suits “bullied and abused” senior people at his hospital. Dr Phillip Kay, director of emergency medicine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital for 23 years, said there was regular political interference by "the people in suits" who endangered patient safety. “He has really opened up on this; he thinks that the hospital system in Queensland is at the point of collapse,” Mr Houghton said. “He blames the people in suits, as he calls them; he says the bureaucrats make decisions that ... have a negative impact on patient health, and he thinks there should be a new system where they’re bypassed.”

The United Nations' nuclear watchdog warns that the safety of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is deteriorating. The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed a drone strike has caused damage in the area. Russia, which controls the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, is accusing Ukraine of the attack.

Ukraine has denied Russia’s claims it plans to use dirty bombs and attack nuclear power plants. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government has described the accusations as “crazy Russian propaganda”.

US Vice President Kamala Harris has thrust the country’s cost of living crisis into the presidential campaign. Ms Harris has promised tax relief for struggling middle-class families. It comes as the Vice President hits out at former president Donald Trump ahead of this week’s Democratic National Convention.

Anzac war memorials in Turkey have been damaged after wildfires tore through the Gallipoli peninsula. Crews there have regained the upper hand against the fire, however, an emergency is now unfolding in a major Turkey city. The blaze which broke out in the woods has now reached residential buildings in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city.

In-store shopping is “as popular as ever”, according to Australian Retailers Association Chief Industry Affairs Officer Fleur Brown. “You’re still looking at most of the shopping been done that way,” Ms Brown told Sky News Australia. “But so much more research being done online.”

Australian Retailers Association Chief Industry Affairs Officer Fleur Brown says when choosing a Father’s Day present it “really comes down to value”. “That’s the word we keep hearing and of course, that’s very subjective,” Ms Brown told Sky News Australia. “For some people, it’s not necessarily the cheapest price, it means that they feel like they’re getting something extra special, a bargain, something to be treasured.”

The small business sector is “quite divided” right now, says Australian Retailers Association Chief Industry Affairs Officer Fleur Brown. “You’ve got a lot of resilience in the small business sector, probably close to half of those we’ve been speaking to are doing ok,” Ms Brown told Sky News Australia. “And by ok we mean performing to expectation or above expectation financially. “Then there is another half that is doing not so well, unfortunately.”

It is a “tough game out there” for small businesses, says Australian Retailers Association Chief Industry Affairs Officer Fleur Brown. “It has been for some time,” she told Sky News Australia. Her comments come as calls grow for the small business sector to receive more support.

Collaboration between different medical experts from across the world is the key to finding the cure to cancer, says NSLHD Chair of Research Professor Bruce Robinson. “Collaboration is the word of the day,” he told Sky News Australia. “We need people to collaborate, not only across state borders but international borders to achieve our goals.”

NSLHD Chair of Research Professor Bruce Robinson reveals the importance of creating world-class doctors and scientists from Australia. His remarks come as a $20 million donation is set to allow a world-leading cancer clinical trial centre in Sydney to offer more patients potentially lifesaving cancer trials. “It’s critically important,” he told Sky News Australia. “It’s not good enough for us to know that clinical trials are open for people in North America to then find they’re not open to us here in Australia. “So we need people’s support.”

NSLHD Chair of Research Professor Bruce Robinson says “people’s lives can be prolonged” with some clinical trials which are being conducted at the NORTH Sydney Trials and Research Van Norton Poche (NORTH S.T.A.R VNP). “Many of my own patients have been placed on trials which have really lengthened their lives,” he told Sky News Australia. “That is a not uncommon consequence of the type of drugs we test now.”

NSLHD Chair of Research Professor Bruce Robinson discusses a $20 million donation which will allow the NORTH Sydney Trials and Research Van Norton Poche (NORTH S.T.A.R VNP) to offer more patients potentially lifesaving cancer trials. “A number of different tumour types will be targeted,” he told Sky News Australia. “We are having a symposium as we speak where people are talking about trials that are being developed in breast, lung and gastric cancer. “But we also want to try and include people from rural and remote Australia in the trials.”

Sky News host Tim Gilbert says the youth of the United States have traditionally been “quite ambivalent” about voting in elections. This follows polling which shows US Vice President Kamala Harris has pulled ahead in critical swing states just weeks after her ascent to the top of the Democrat ticket. “If Taylor Swift comes on board ... if it’s a thing to go and vote, it’d be huge,” Mr Gilbert said.