Sky News host James Macpherson says Melbourne Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece unveiled a new plan to reduce power costs in the city. “The Melbourne City Council are going to become the … middle person … bulk buying from one and selling to the other,” Mr Macpherson said. Small businesses across Melbourne and around a million residents are looking at reduced power bills under a renewable energy plan unveiled by its Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece.

A local town in Victoria, Daylesford, has barred Dan Murphy’s from setting up a store within the community, says Sky News host Caleb Bond. “Dan Murphy’s thought well here’s a good place to expand into,” Mr Bond said. “They went off and applied to set up a shop and they have had their application denied. “On the basis that it will be harmful to the community.”

Sky News host Caleb Bond discusses Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn breaking her silence on social media. “She went to the Olympics to be judged, she was judged by the judges, and they gave her a big fat zero, then the rest of the world judged her performance,” Mr Bond said. “What did she expect she was getting herself in for?”

Sky News host Liz Storer says China is waging an “all-out information war” on social media as AI-run bot accounts swamp Elon Musk’s X platform. “In news that is in fact news to no one, a whistleblower has recently told us all China is trying to interfere in debate in Australia,” Ms Storer said. “A network of some 5,000 AI-run accounts on social media site X, otherwise known as Twitter, is just one part of an all-out information war China is waging against Australia.”

Coal Australia Chairman Nick Jorss joined Sky News host Paul Murray to discuss the coal industry which employs “tens of thousands of people” being “kicked to the curb”. “The coal industry has just been kicked to the curb,” Mr Jorss said. “Coal industry employs, as I say, employs tens of thousands of people directly, hundreds of thousands indirectly. “Coal also builds the future … create the steel that’s building our buildings, our bridges and our infrastructure; without which we wouldn’t be here today.”

Coal Australia Chairman Nick Jorss joined Sky News host Paul Murray to discuss restoring pride in Australia’s coal industry which puts “$100 billion into the economy”. “Coal Australia is a grassroots movement,” Mr Jorss said. “It’s really representing our workers, our communities. “Coal is … putting $100 billion into the economy and the community every year. “Something we should rightly be proud of. “What we’re aiming to do is to just restore that pride and get that message out there.”

Menzies Research Centre’s Nick Cater backs Peter Dutton’s call on Gazan refugees and claims that if there were a referendum, the result would be an “emphatic no”. Channel Nine has called Opposition Leader Peter Dutton a ‘heartless racist’ after he called for a complete ban on Gazan refugees in Australia. “It is ridiculous,” Mr Cater told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “If we were to have a referendum on this tomorrow … should we let in Gazan refugees … the result would be an emphatic no.”

Sky News contributor Kosha Gada says Kamala Harris has a clear strategy of “running out the clock”. This follows scrutiny directed at Ms Harris for avoiding doing media interviews since becoming the Democratic nominee. “(She is) getting very favourable media or no media and that seems to be what’s on the ballot,” Ms Gada told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

Former foreign minister Alexander Downer says Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is “quite right” in his comments on Gazans seeking temporary visas. Debate has continued to ramp up this week, with Mr Dutton demanding an outright ban on granting visas to Palestinians from Gaza. “It is clearly impossible to do proper security checks on people in Gaza – the Australian government doesn’t have any officials in Gaza – it’s just not possible to do the required checks,” Mr Downer said. “If you were going to get the Gazan authorities to do the checks, well you’d be asking Hamas to do the checks.”

Menzies Research Centre’s Nick Cater backs Peter Dutton’s call on Gazan refugees given that Australians want their “borders protected”. Tensions flare across parliament, following Opposition Leader Peter Dutton calling for a complete ban on Gazan refugees in Australia. “Ordinary working decent people out there, Australians, patriotic Australians, are right on board with Peter Dutton,” Mr Cater told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “People want their borders protected.”

‘To Di For’ podcast host Kinsey Schofield discusses the US Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign editing headlines of news articles and paying to get them at the top of Google search results as sponsored content. “The wildest part about this is that it is perfectly acceptable behaviour under Google’s terms and conditions,” Ms Schofield told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “I mean, it is clearly misleading, the tactic.” “Unfortunately, the tactic does not violate their [Google’s] policies because the fake ads are labelled as sponsored.”

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the government is working with security agencies to “keep Australians safe”. Debate has continued to ramp up this week, with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton demanding an outright ban on granting visas to Palestinians from Gaza. “That’s what this is about – real human beings with real children and real families and real trauma and real tragedy,” Mr Albanese said. “The impact that has had – whether it be the innocent lives that have been lost in Israel or the innocent lives that have been lost in Gaza – that has had a traumatic effect on everyone who has related to them here.”

A large group of pro-Palestine protesters have stormed a Democratic after-party following a Kamala Harris campaign event. The demonstrators were heard chanting, screaming and setting off smoke bombs, leading to mass arrests on Wednesday night. The protesters also clashed with members of the New York Police Department as the officers attempted to clear the area. The gathering of the Democrats, dubbed ‘New York City Kickoff’, saw federal, state and municipal leaders attend. Prominent figures such as New York Mayor Eric Adams, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James attended. The gathering was not an official Harris campaign rally but was a pep rally leading up to the Democratic National Convention next week.

The World Health Organization has declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years due to an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo spreading to neighbouring countries.

Sky News host Rita Panahi joins author Douglas Murray to react to ‘The Late Show’ audience laughing when Stephen Colbert calls CNN "objective" during an interview. It comes as CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins appeared on the late-night comedy show to talk about the state of the presidential race. “Even his leftist crowd just burst out laughing at that claim it just reports the news that just straight down the line, unbiased,” Ms Panahi said. “People are actually getting awareness of some of the double standards that exist.”

Author Douglas Murray has called out “very obscure figure” Jonathan Freedland over his “ridiculous piece” in The Guardian. Mr Freedland's piece in The Guardian blamed Elon Musk for the recent unrest in Britain. Mr Freedland argued that the tech billionaire ‘decided to make X a safe space for racism and hate almost as soon as he bought it’. Mr Murray joined Sky News host Rita Panahi to discuss the piece in The Guardian. “To think that somebody like him would have the audacity to claim that the British authorities should arrest an American citizen," Mr Murray said. “He should know that America fought quite a significant war in order that American citizens would not, in fact, be under the writ of British law. And thank goodness Elon Musk isn't. “Thank goodness he has the guts to continue like a number of the rest of us to say, what is the truth?”

US Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign team has come under fire over reports that they have been editing news headlines in her favour. According to an Axios report, the Harris campaign has put out sponsored posts in Google search ads with edited headlines from several news organisations without the outlets’ knowledge. Sky News host Sharri Markson was joined by former Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger and former Labor senator Graham Richardson to discuss the Harris campaign’s ad practices. “Harris’s campaign team, I’ve gotta say, have done an outstanding job so far,” Mr Kroger said. “They think she’s great because the left, the hard left media are so desperate to defeat Trump, there’s been this shocking protection racket of her as there was of Biden’s dementia that she’s getting away with murder. “So none of this surprises me. “The question is, can they pull the wool over the eyes of the American public for another three months? I think the answer is probably not, but they might.”

‘The Megyn Kelly Show’ host Megyn Kelly has called out the media for its “enormous gaslighting” ahead of the US presidential election in November. “It’s all on steroids this year ... because they’re back from the dead,” Ms Kelly told Sky News host Paul Murray. “You know, Biden’s out, Kamala’s in, there’s enthusiasm for her, and they just know that they can just check their ethics of another two and a half months, they can have this, they can have what they want. “It makes me boil inside.”

The Trump campaign is so far from getting a “fair shake” that they’re getting completely “twisted and turned and lambasted” every day in the media, according to ‘The Megyn Kelly Show’ host Megyn Kelly. “Which is not their job, and then I have to remind myself that my job as a member of the media is not to try to persuade people to go the other way,” Ms Kelly told Sky News host Paul Murray. “It’s just to stay in the factual realm and tell the stories that others won’t tell and stay factual, notwithstanding the enormous gaslighting we’re getting and blowback.”

Democrats are preparing for a celebratory farewell for US President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention. ‘The Megyn Kelly Show’ host Megyn Kelly suggested the Democrats will “sell lies” about the people in attendance at the DNC next week. “They will, just very Orwellian, tell us how we’re supposed to feel,” she told Sky News host Paul Murray. “They’ll sell these lies because they’re really good at selling these lies and they will have the top Hollywood producers there putting a gift wrap around them.”