Former Labor senator Stephen Conroy believes the Labor Party must take “lessons” from the Democrats’ loss in the US election. “I think there are lessons that need to be learned from what happened in America,” Mr Conroy told Sky News host Paul Murray. “People are hurting and they don’t react well to a lecture about how well they’re all doing.”

Former Labor minister Graham Richardson slams Foreign Minister Penny Wong after she went against the recommendation from Australia’s mission to the United Nations and supported a UN resolution recognising Palestinian sovereignty. “I can see a very bad decision has been made,” Mr Richardson said. “She got this wrong, I think very wrong and I don’t think it does Australia any credit whatsoever.”

Former Labor senator Stephen Conroy discusses the Harris campaign spending $US1 billion on the Vice President’s failed presidential campaign, which is now $20 million in debt. “They got themselves convinced that on a couple of issues like, as an example abortion, that there’s always Republican women who are going to vote against Trump, still for the rest of the Republican team,” he told Sky News host Paul Murray. “And what the referenda in I think four of the swing states, they voted for abortion rights to be enshrined in the legislation and yet they still voted for Trump. “So, this tactic was an epic fail, and there was a lot of no effort to try and farm a vote that didn’t exist and that’s how you waste a lot of money.”

Sky News host Peta Credlin says Labor has been “caught out” as the Coalition slams the government’s actions against nuclear claiming they are making Australia an “international embarrassment”. “With nuclear power, another day it was a feature of Question Time,” Ms Credlin said. “The Coalition saying Labor is turning us into an international embarrassment … Richard Marles trying to play down the story today … Labor is caught out here.”

Sky News host Chris Kenny believes it will be an “easy campaign” for the Coalition at the next election. This comes amid criticism directed towards Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for leaving Australia and neglecting domestic politics. “It’s an easy campaign for the Coalition to run,” Mr Kenny said. “There’s not going to be a rate cut – he promised to bring them down, didn’t. He promised to bring electricity prices down, they went up. Promised to fix cost of living, it’s worse than ever.”

Sky News host Liz Storer says the Republicans are enjoying their “honeymoon period” after Donald Trump’s victory. Ms Storer said the Republicans are very likely to “lose the House” in the midterms. “Come the midterms, that heyday is going to be over.”

‘Climate Depot’ Executive Director Marc Morano claims COP29 was all about money and labelled the conference a “UN climate slush fund”. “This whole conference was about money, money, money,” Mr Morano told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “They want to go from 100 billion a year to 1 to 2 trillion dollars a year for this UN climate slush fund.”

Rennie Advisory’s Matt Rennie has warned of a "yawning gap" which is emerging in Labor’s energy plan. “Now the rhetoric is we’re going to shift towards gas peaking and firming and now to gas baseload,” Mr Rennie said. “All of these types of generation are reflective of the fact that I think most of us are realising that there’s a yawning gap emerging that needs to be filled by something and I’m not sure that people know exactly what just yet.”

Shadow Communications Minister David Coleman discusses the “fundamental flaw” in the government’s misinformation bill. The Albanese government has been warned its proposal to crack down on social media misinformation will be seen as an “act of aggression” against the incoming Trump administration. “This is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever put forward by an Australian government,” Mr Coleman told Sky News Australia.

The Albanese Labor government have already started to “ramp up” the negative ads about Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, reveals DPG Advisory Solutions Founder and Director David Gazard. “And they will use the entire weight of government to do that,” he told Sky News Australia. “But that does not cover over the fact that for the last year – 18 months – the numbers for the Labor Party have been sliding.”

Manager of Opposition Business Paul Fletcher criticises the Labor government for "wilfully turning a blind eye" to the international trend of civil nuclear energy. "The point we [Coalition] make is that our energy system today is coal plus natural gas plus renewable and see a world where it is nuclear plus natural plus renewables," he said. "We've seen a COP both last year and this year, countries increasing the use of nuclear because it is emissions-free. "Australia seems to be, under the Albanese Labor government, seems to be wilfully turning a blind eye to what is a clear international trend to make greater use of civil nuclear energy."

The Albanese Labor government can actually “stand on a pretty good record”, claims Fitzpatrick and Co Advisory Managing Director Eamonn Fitzpatrick. His remarks come as the federal election looms ahead in early next year. “What we’ve seen in this term is a government that got voted in because it wants to do something about the cost of living and it has, it absolutely has,” Sky News Australia.

American supplied long-range missiles have been used on an attack on Russia by Ukraine.

The Liberal Coalition will be “completely transparent” about the cost of its nuclear energy plan, reveals Shadow Energy and Climate Change Minister Ted O’Brien. “To be clear here, we are talking about comparing the total system cost which is what Chris Uhlmann revealed last night,” Mr O’Brien told Sky News Australia. “You don’t just compare the cost of one technology, it’s about how the whole system delivers a price on your power bill at home or for businesses on their power bills.”

Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume says Australians across the country are “committed” to a net zero emissions future. The Australian government will not be signing a new agreement on civil nuclear reactor collaboration which was signed by the US and the UK at COP29. “We all want to see a cleaner and greener energy system but the question is: at what cost?” Ms Hume said. “Our concern is that Australians are facing rising bills ... and increasing burden to the taxpayer and an increasingly unstable electricity grid.”

Australia’s Ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd has declared he’s ready to work with President-elect Donald Trump. “Here in the embassy, we’ve been working hard in the course of the last year to ensure that we are well prepared for this moment and the bottom line is we’re ready,” Mr Rudd said. “The team here at the embassy and the government of Australia are ready to work closely with the new Trump administration to continue to realise the benefits of what is a very strong economic and security partnership.”

Shadow Energy and Climate Change Minister Ted O’Brien has applauded Sky News political commentator Chris Uhlmann’s new documentary 'The Real Cost of Net Zero'. “It was a fantastic piece by Chris Uhlmann,” Mr O’Brien told Sky News Australia. “His ability to simplify complexity and expose what I think has been a deliberate con job on the part of the Albanese government was absolutely first class.”

New South Wales Opposition Leader Mark Speakman says the state is now seeing “industrial chaos and freefall” amid the ongoing train strikes. “This union can smell blood, they know that it’s a weak Premier, it is a weak government that is beholden to the unions,” Mr Speakman told Sky News Australia. “It’s a government that is beholden to unions and this union can smell the weakness of this government which has abandoned a wages policy. “We’re now seeing industrial chaos and industrial freefall in New South Wales.”

Streaming giant Netflix has been issued a class action concerning the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fight. TMZ reported the lawsuit is over streaming issues and a breach of contract. Thousands of viewers claimed they had trouble watching the fight. Netflix has not commented on the matter.

Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at CEPA Mark Voyger has slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin saying he has “cashed his check again and again” with threatening nuclear talk. Mr Voyger’s comments come after Mr Putin stepped up talk of using nuclear weapons following claims that American-supplied long-range missiles were used in an attack on Russian territory by Ukraine. “He has almost desensitised the Western leaders so far by now,” Mr Voyger told Sky News Australia.