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‘One of the worst losing streaks’: S&P 500 and Nasdaq close lower for fifth-straight day
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- ‘One of the worst losing streaks’: S&P 500 and Nasdaq close lower for fifth-straight day
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- 10 hours ago
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- CommSec’s Tom Piotrowski says the S&P 500 and Nasdaq have hit "one of the worst losing streaks" since October after they closed lower for a fifth consecutive day.
“The S&P 500 down by a quarter of a per cent," Mr Piotrowski told Sky News Australia.
“The Nasdaq down … by about a half of one per cent.
“That means that we have seen five consecutive days of losses for those indices, which is one of the worst losing streaks that we have seen since October last year.”
Presented by CommSec.
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- All 12 jurors have been selected for Donald Trump’s hush money trial
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- 10 hours ago
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- A dozen jurors have been selected in Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York.
Sky News US analyst Michael Ware discussed the latest on the former US president's criminal trial.
“We now have a jury, 12 jurors have been selected, one of the alternatives has been selected we need five more,” Mr Ware told Sky News Australia.
“Now all this appeared wobbly just hours ago this morning because two of the selected jurors had to either bow out, or be kicked out,” he said.
“One bowed out because she said that through little clues and little pieces of information in the media, everyone in her family and community recognised that you're one of the jurors aren’t you?
“So, she asked to be relieved and she was.
“it’s distinctly possible that this trial could start on Monday.”
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to payments made to adult fil...
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- Newborn bearded monkey makes public debut
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- 10 hours ago
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- A rare newborn monkey has made its public debut in Germany.
The bearded monkey and his proud mom were seen eating a snack and roaming around their enclosure at Cologne Zoo on Thursday.
Officials say the 5-week-old monkey is developing well and is enjoying all the attention.
Bearded monkeys are considered one of the rarest primate species on earth.
Deforestation poses the greatest threat to the species.
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- Hopes of a rate cut fade following rise in unemployment
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- 11 hours ago
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- Hopes of an early cut to interest rates have been dampened with a lower than anticipated rise in unemployment.
Unemployment rose to 3.8 per cent in March.
he updated figures show a 0.1 per cent rise in unemployment since February.
The market lose more than 6,000 jobs despite forecasts predicting an increase of 3.9 per cent.
Unemployment figures are expected to continue rising in the coming months, likely delaying any RBA rate cuts.
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- Calls for federal parliament to pass vaping laws
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- 11 hours ago
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- State and Territory Health Ministers are calling on the Federal Parliament to pass new vaping laws.
In a united plea, they said it's important for Australia to maintain its tight tobacco control.
They added the new laws would help smokers kick the habit.
Federal Health Minister Mark Butler introduced legislation last month, which would crack down on single-use and non-therapeutic vapes.
Around one in six high school students and one in four Australians aged between 18 and 24 have taken up vaping.
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- Prince William attends first royal engagement since Princess Kate's cancer revelation
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- 11 hours ago
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- Prince William has returned to official duties for the first time since the Princess of Wales’ revealed her cancer diagnosis.
The Prince of Wales visited a food distribution charity, Surplus to Supper, in Surrey where he was seen helping out in the kitchen.
William has been absent from official engagements since Prince Catherine last month revealed she is undergoing preventative chemotherapy.
The Prince of Wales thanked well-wishers for cards as he visited a food distribution charity in Surrey.
One of the members asked about Kate, telling him to "take care of her", to which he replied: "I will".
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- Bondi Junction Westfield re-opens for trade after stabbing attack
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- 12 hours ago
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- Westfield Bondi Junction will reopen its doors for trading at 9:30am on Friday, almost a week since the mass stabbing tragedy.
The centre will have increased police presence, and mental health support services on site.
On Thursday the centre was open for a 'community day of reflection'.
Stores were closed but the center was open to the public to pay their respects.
People gathered on level four where a tribute of wreaths was laid out to leave condolences and mourn the lives lost during Saturday's mass murder.
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- Cumberland Council ‘so far outside their jurisdiction’ with Indigenous treaty push
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- 19 hours ago
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- Sky News host Liz Storer says the Cumberland Council has decided to take treaty matters “into its own hands”.
Cumberland Council in Western Sydney has been criticised for attempting to push through an Indigenous treaty in a meeting with no notice to its councillors whatsoever.
“Would it be a Late Debate episode without us bringing to your attention yet another council acting so far outside of their jurisdiction it is eye-watering?” Ms Storer said.
“The area of Cumberland voted ‘No’ to the Voice vote that we had last year, as did the vast majority of Australians.
“And yet, they are having this shoved down their throat – what gives?”
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- The Rita Panahi Show | April 18
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- 19 hours ago
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- Disruptive protest action plagues Victoria, women’s rights on trial in Australia, Prince Harry identifies as a US resident. Plus, an extra long Lefties Losing It segment with Rita.
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- Nigel Farage slams ‘mean spirited and nasty’ judges in Donald Trump’s trial
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- 19 hours ago
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- GB News host Nigel Farage says Donald Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial in New York must be “absolute torture” for him to go through.
Despite his best efforts to delay the trial, Mr Trump’s ‘hush money’ case will formally begin in Manhattan on Monday morning (local time) and is expected to run for six to eight weeks.
It's increasingly likely this will be the only criminal trial against Trump that will take place before the November election.
“Not even allowed to attend his son Barron’s graduation from school,” Mr Farage said.
“That is how mean spirited and nasty these judges are.
“The whole American judicial system frankly has been politicised, corrupted and looks truly dreadful to fair minded Americans and indeed to the rest of the world as well.”
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- Paul Murray Live | 18 April
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- 19 hours ago
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- Labor’s shocking solution to criticism, political cover-up claims ripped apart, businesses keep collapsing under Albanese. Plus, Megyn Kelly lampoons US media.
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- Nigel Farage lays out the ‘real cancel culture’ from his time in Brussels
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- 19 hours ago
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- GB News host Nigel Farage says conservative conference in Brussels has resumed after a “victory” in Belgium’s high court.
On Tuesday, Brussels police stormed the National Conservatism Conference to close down the event just as Nigel Farage took the stage.
The Mayor of Brussels justified the order to ban the conference to “guarantee public safety”, adding “the far right is not welcome”.
“I spent many years in Brussels – I was banned from pubs, restaurants, coffee bars – that’s real cancel culture,” Mr Farage said.
“It’s rather like communism; if you disagree with the globalist project of ever-closer political union, you are mad, bad and dangerous.
“I had seen this on a personal level against myself – now the whole world has seen what this place is like.”
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- Concerns raised over how driverless trucks will respond to incidents
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- 19 hours ago
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- Sky News host Caleb Bond raises concerns over how driverless trucks will respond to crash scenarios as regular drivers are experts “in what they do”.
“How does that truck know how to respond … if there is a crash two metres ahead of it, what does that truck then do,” Mr Bond said.
“If you have got an actual driver there it will know how to respond.
“They are an expert in what they do.
“How does an automated truck respond to all of that?”
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- ‘What sort of Defence Minister is this?’: Australia now entering its most ‘dangerous time’
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- 19 hours ago
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- Former speaker of the House Bronwyn Bishop has questioned Defence Minister Richard Marles’ actions with defence expenditure says Australia is now entering its most “dangerous time”.
Ms Bishop joined Sky News host Paul Murray to discuss defence expenditure.
“We’re going to put all this money into us because China’s a bad guy.
“But guess what? We’re not going to put … 90 per cent of the money in until way past forward estimates when they’d be out of office hopefully for a long time.
“In the meantime they’ve cut $72 billion of already allocated spending, what sort of Defence Minister is this?”
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- Google has made the ‘right call’ firing workers for protesting military contract with Israel
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- 19 hours ago
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- Sky News host Caleb Bond says Google has made the “right call” for firing workers who protested their military contract with Israel.
Google fired multiple employees who staged an anti-Israel protest against a contract the company has with Israel’s government and military.
“They have all been sacked for participating in that protest.
“Now of course you’ll have cries from some ‘What about their freedom of speech? How dare Google tell these people how to think politically’.
“Well, I’m very sorry, I don’t know any other workplace where you be able to go to work, openly criticise your employer, say how terrible they are, dictate to the bosses how they must their job, and keep your job.”
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- Fears Australia will be ‘lagging its peers’ when it comes to lowering inflation
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- 20 hours ago
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- The International Monetary Fund believes Australia is going to be “lagging its peers” when it comes to lowering inflation, says Sky News host Paul Murray.
“Remember, until inflation gets between two and three per cent, the Reserve Bank will continue to either increase interest rates,” Mr Murray said.
“Or most likely just leave them where they currently are.
“Where you have to find somewhere between $15 and over $30,000 more than you did before this government came to be elected to pay off your mortgage.
“And business insolvencies, they’ve now hit record numbers.”
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- Sharri | 18 April
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- 20 hours ago
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- Community in mourning following Bondi attack, Australia’s generosity shining through, UK pleads with Israel to show restraint. Plus, Paul Monk joins the show to discuss the national defence strategy which is facing criticism.
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- Israel will not let Iran ‘get away’ with its ‘serious escalation of violence’
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- 20 hours ago
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- Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson says a “very important threshold” has been crossed with Iran’s unprecedented aerial attack on Israel.
Iran said the missile attack on Israel was in retaliation for a strike on an Iranian consular building in Syria earlier this month, which killed two Iranian generals.
Israel's retaliatory strike against Iran is understood to be imminent.
“If someone did that to us, we would regard that as a declaration of war and we would expect our government to respond accordingly,” Mr Paterson told Sky News host Sharri Markson.
“The reason why Iran has got away with this is because everyone is so used to Iran waging war on Israel through its proxies – through Hezbollah and Hamas and the Houthis and others.
“It’s my expectation that Israel will want to reassert that deterrence by demonstrating to Iran that there is a very real cost for this behaviour and they can’t get away...
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- NatCon conference resumes in Brussels following closure order from ‘left-wing goons’
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- 20 hours ago
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- A conservative conference in Brussels has resumed after a court overturned the local mayor’s order to shut it down.
On Tuesday, Brussels police stormed the National Conservatism Conference to close down the event just as Nigel Farage took the stage.
The Mayor of Brussels justified the order to ban the conference to “guarantee public safety”, adding “the far right is not welcome”.
GB News presenter Darren Grimes says the police have got their priorities “all wrong”.
“It just shows how these jumped-up, left-wing goons think that they’re the arbiters of ... speech and debate in a democracy, and I find it absolutely baffling,” Mr Grimes told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power.
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- Israel expected to ‘enforce’ consequences for Iran if ‘no one else will’
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- 20 hours ago
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- Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson expects Israel to have a “carefully calibrated” response to Iran’s aerial attacks over the weekend.
Iran said the missile attack on Israel was in retaliation for a strike on an Iranian consular building in Syria earlier this month, which killed two Iranian generals.
Israel's retaliatory strike against Iran is understood to be imminent.
“Iran has done something that it’s never done before – it has never so overtly launched an attack on Israel,” Mr Paterson told Sky News host Sharri Markson.
“I understand why many Israelis feel – and I suspect the government feels – that Iran has to pay a price for this.
“It wants Iran to understand that there are consequences for this behaviour and that if no one else will enforce those consequences, then Israel will.”
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- ‘Absolutely revolting’: Jeff Bezos’ fiancée slammed on Instagram
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- 20 hours ago
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- The fiancée of Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos has been slammed as “absolutely revolting” by restaurateur Keith McNally.
Mr McNally slammed Lauren Sanchez in an Instagram post.
“Does anybody else find Jeff Bezos’ New wife – Lauren Sanchez – absolutely revolting?” he said in the caption.
“What an ugly and F***ing smug looking couple they make.
“Is this what having $1000 billion does to people?”
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- Meghan Markle’s new product labelled a ‘disappointment’
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- 20 hours ago
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- ‘To Di For’ podcast host Kinsey Schofield has described Meghan Markle’s product launch as “such a disappointment”.
Meghan Markle has teased a first look at her new business venture on social media, sharing images of a jar of strawberry jam.
The Duchess of Sussex unveiled the item this week and gifted jars of her conserves to a range of influencers and socialites.
“I mean how incredibly disappointing,” Ms Schofield told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“Why all this PR hype?”
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- Call for more ‘tough talk’ from Joe Biden on China
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- 20 hours ago
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- Menzies Research Centre’s Nick Cater has called for more “tough talk” from President Joe Biden on China.
The President on Wednesday called for higher tariffs on Chinese metal products in a bid to please US steelworkers.
He proposed tripling the current tariffs imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump.
“I just think tariffs are not the way to go,” Mr Cater told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“What about just a bit of tough talking? Putting a line in the sand over Taiwan for example.”
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- Labor’s Future Made in Australia scheme will ‘cause some problems’
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- 21 hours ago
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- Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the Albanese government plans to “spray your money” at businesses it believes are going to be winners with its new scheme.
The Prime Minister formally announced the new Future Made in Australia Act during an address to the Queensland Media Club on Thursday.
“Last week, I said straight off the bat, this is going to cause some problems,” Mr Bolt said.
“We've just got two more new examples of how dangerous and silly this new strategy of picking winners can be.
“The first is actually from January ... a solar farm in Western Australia that the federal government gave $21 million to plus millions more in cheap loans – it’s being scrapped after just seven years.
“Just yesterday, our biggest plastic maker collapsed – 700 jobs at risk – in part because of green policies and political mistakes that made the price of gas too high to compete.”
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- ‘Got to be very careful’: Concerns of wider Middle East war upon Israel’s response to Iran
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- 21 hours ago
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- Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says Israel’s response to Iran’s attack is a difficult situation as intentions could be “inflamed” and descend into a wider Middle East war.
“I completely understand the desire for retaliation by the Israeli government,” Mr Canavan told Sky News host Sharri Markson.
“The attack that was made on them by Iran was reprehensible and does need a global response.
“I am on the side of caution here.
“We have got to be very careful here; I do not want the region here in the Middle East to descend into a wider war.”
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- Government is acting ‘very cautious’ with its National Defence Strategy
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- 21 hours ago
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- Former defence intelligence analyst Paul Monk says the government is acting “very cautious” with its National Defence Strategy.
Mr Monk joined Sky News host Sharri Markson to discuss the government’s new defence strategy and how it affects Australia’s national security.
“In (certain) circumstances where it is agreed that we’ve lost our margin of safety, a ten-year time horizon for threat.
“What they’re saying is within ten years we will have something respectable.
“Well why would you adopt that perspective, why wouldn’t you say that we have to be ready, this is something we have to be galvanised about as a community – we need to purchase things in short order that would enable us to play a role in collective security in this region in an emergency.”
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- ‘All eyes on Israel’: Retaliation against Iran question of ‘not if, but when’
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- 21 hours ago
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- Sky News host Sharri Markson says Israel is expected to retaliate against Iran “in the next couple of days”.
“Let’s have a look at Iran, and Israel, all eyes are on Israel at the moment,” Ms Markson said.
“We are expecting a retaliation strike against Iran imminently.
“It could be as soon as tonight, could be in the next couple of days.
“My sources tell me this is now a question of not if, but when.”
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- Joe Biden confuses Israeli city with Rafah in latest gaffe
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- 21 hours ago
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- Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to President Joe Biden appearing to confuse the Israeli city Haifa with Rafah in Gaza.
“I made it clear to Israelis, don’t move on Haifa,” President Biden said.
The President then appeared to trail off and remained silent for a few seconds.
“President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is hitting new lows,” Ms Panahi said.
“The poor man is dazed and confused when he appears lucid for a moment or two; we get bizarre stories and debunked lies.”
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- Lefties losing it: Pro-Palestine protester screams after putting arm in concrete
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- 21 hours ago
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- Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to a pro-Palestine protester screaming as authorities tried to free his arm from a barrel of concrete.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators caused traffic chaos in the United States after blocking the Golden Gate in San Francisco.
One protester was being told to let go of a metal bar and allow rescuers to free his arm, which was trapped in cement.
However, the protester continued to scream at authorities, accusing them of squeezing his hand.
Ms Panahi slammed the protester as a “man child” who refused to listen to advice from authorities.
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- Credlin | 18 April
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- 21 hours ago
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- Online hate needs to be taken down, community shocked after church attack, climate group looks for candidates. Plus, Ross Greenwood joins the show to discuss the rise in the unemployment rate.
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- The Bolt Report | 18 April
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- 21 hours ago
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- Andrew Bolt exposes the government's fallacious rhetoric following the alleged terror attack on a Sydney bishop, billions of your tax dollars down the drain. Plus, why aren't our governments going after the real hate preachers?
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- Scotland’s new hate crime laws puts us in ‘clown territory’
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- 22 hours ago
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- GB News presenter Darren Grimes says we are in “clown territory” with Scotland “leading the charge”.
This comes as more details are being revealed about Scotland’s new hate crime laws, which makes it an offense to “stir up hatred” on the grounds of age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity but doesn’t include hatred of women.
Taxpayer funds totalling nearly 400,000 pounds were allocated for promoting the new laws.
The controversial campaign emphasised words could hurt feelings and encouraged people to report instances of “hate” to the police.
“We really are in clown territory, and Scotland is very much leading the charge,” Mr Grimes told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power.
“We’re really entering into dark territory throughout Europe, and unless we pull back soon, I fear that there’s going to be a lot of people, innocent people dragged into this.”
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- ‘Lazy’ UK MPs gives ‘chilling preview’ of what a Labour government might look like
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- 22 hours ago
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- Labour MPs have been slammed after they mocked the scenes in Brussels when the mayor called the police to shut down the National Conservatism Conference.
A conservative conference in Brussels has resumed after a court overturned the local mayor’s order to shut it down.
On Tuesday, Brussels police stormed the National Conservatism Conference to close down the event just as Nigel Farage took the stage.
The Mayor of Brussels justified the order to ban the conference to “guarantee public safety”, adding “the far right is not welcome”.
GB News presenter Darren Grimes says the MPs are giving the UK a “chilling preview” of what a Labour government might look like.
“They are lazy, they do not want to challenge the ideas,” Mr Grimes told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power.
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- ASIC reveals ‘alarming’ increase in companies ‘going bust’
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- 22 hours ago
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- Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood says the corporate regulator ASIC today showed an “alarming” increase in the number of companies “going bust”.
In the nine months to March 31, it says 7,742 businesses had collapsed – a 36 per cent increase on the same period last year.
The greatest number of collapses happened in construction, as well as in accommodation and food services.
Those two industries alone accounted for more than 40 per cent of all corporate failures.
ASIC says the year to June 30 will likely see more than 10,000 companies in external administration or going bust – the largest number in 11 years.
Of the total number of companies that exist – around 3.3 million – the ratio of companies going bust is expected to be around one in 30.
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- JK Rowling blasts Scotland’s First Minister over law that protects trans activists
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- 22 hours ago
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- Harry Potter author JK Rowling has blasted Scotland’s First Minister over new misogyny laws.
Scotland First Minister Humza Yousaf revealed that transgender women will be protected under new misogyny laws.
Ms Rowling has called him out in a post on the social media platform X.
“Once again, Humza Yousaf makes his absolute contempt for women and their rights clear,” she said.
“Women were excluded from his nonsensical hate crime law, now he introduces a ‘misogyny law’ designed to also protect men.”
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- ‘Swindle factories’: Barnaby Joyce rips into solar and wind farms
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- 22 hours ago
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- Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has slammed solar and wind farms, labelling them “swindle factories”.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spruiked his government’s new Future Made in Australia Act which aims to invest in clean and green energy manufacturing.
“I don’t know why people think it’s a surprise when your energy prices are going through the roof,” Mr Joyce told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
“They are not farms – they are intermittent power companies that swindle your listeners.
“They are swindle factories.”
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- ‘Local council have no right’: Cumberland Council slammed for no-notice treaty push
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- 22 hours ago
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- One Nation Chief of Staff James Ashby has slammed the Cumberland Council for attempting to push through an Indigenous treaty in a meeting with no notice to its councillors whatsoever.
“Local council have no right to enter this type of politics,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“At the end of the day, council are there to service roads, rates, and rubbish.
“They were going well and truly beyond the scope of what council should be doing.
“As far as I’m concerned, native title is extinguished right across the majority of Sydney.”
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- Demand for EVs drops ‘considerably’ as incentives come off
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- 22 hours ago
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- Senior motoring journalist Paul Gover says the demand for electric vehicles globally has “dropped considerably”.
Sales have slumped at the two major electric vehicle manufacturers with Tesla having to lay off 14,000 workers.
Sales are predicted to grow this year but by only 1.1 per cent – making up just eight per cent of the market share.
“There was astronomical take-up rate originally because of incentives,” Mr Gover said.
“The incentives have come off in Europe and come off in the states and the demand has dropped considerably.”
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- Driverless trucks set to become ‘commonplace’ on roads
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- 22 hours ago
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- Sky News host Peta Credlin says driverless trucks are set to become “commonplace” on Australian roads.
A trial of driverless trucks has launched across two of the busiest truck routes in Victoria today.
Victorian Transport Association CEO Peter Anderson said the idea was not too far-fetched at all.
“There’s a big difference between a mine and a busy suburban road or a highway,” Ms Credlin said.
“He might have a long way to go to convince people.”
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- Lefties losing it: Joe Biden’s ‘cognitive decline’ hitting ‘new lows’
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- 22 hours ago
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- Sky News host Rita Panahi claims President Joe Biden’s “cognitive decline” is hitting “new lows” as she reacts to his latest gaffes.
In one video, the President appeared to confuse the Israeli city Haifa with Rafah in Gaza.
“I made it clear to Israelis, don’t move on Haifa,” President Biden said.
President Biden also bizarrely claimed his uncle was eaten by cannibals after his plane crashed.
However, Pentagon records state the aircraft plunged into the Pacific off the coast of New Guinea.
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- ‘Lot of common sense out there’: Developing nations take advantage of coal
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- 22 hours ago
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- Geologist Ian Plimer says there’s a “lot of common sense” across the world as developing nations are taking advantage of coal.
Mr Plimer joined Sky News host Rita Panahi to discuss the increase in coal being used globally despite Australia planning on shutting down more coal-fired power stations.
“There are developing nations that need coal.
“We used coal to develop into a very, very comfortable lifestyle, and other countries are doing this.
“The coal is growing because people are using the cheapest form of energy production for electricity, they’re using coal to crate steel, and the world’s a wonderful place.”
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- Reserve Bank likely to push rate cuts ‘down the track’
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- 22 hours ago
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- Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood says the Reserve Bank of Australia has got to push rate cuts “down the track” as unemployment numbers rise.
“It has got to push it down the track to a certain extent,” Mr Greenwood told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“The Reserve Bank has got two basic mandates.
“One is to keep inflation under control.
“The other thing that it has got is it has got to watch the employment markets.”
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- Unemployment rate rises to 3.8 per cent in March
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- 22 hours ago
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- Sky News host Peta Credlin says new labour market data reveals the unemployment rate has risen while unemployment numbers remain “historically low”.
“New labour market data out today reveals the unemployment rate has risen,” Ms Credlin said.
“To 3.8 per cent in March up from 3.7 per cent in February.
“We shed 6,500 jobs last month … we have got a sub-four per cent unemployment number, that is still historically low.
“Add in record-migration, the highest in Australia’s history, this is something we have got to watch very closely.”
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- ‘Good news’: Global coal-fired power capacity grows by two per cent
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- 22 hours ago
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- Sky News host Rita Panahi says it’s “good news” that the global coal-fired power capacity grew by two per cent.
Ms Panahi joined geologist Ian Plimer to discuss the increase in coal being used globally despite Australia planning on shutting down more coal-fired power stations.
“Coal-fired power capacity grew by two per cent last year across the globe.
“That’s the highest annual increase since 2016 as China and India open more and more plants as we rush to shut down our own sources of cheap, reliable energy.
“Australia’s rushed to shut down coal plants and transition to renewables, which we are told is the cheapest form of energy, is actually seeing power prices soar domestically.”
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- Australia sees ‘more than 10,000 corporate collapses in a year’: Greenwood
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- 23 hours ago
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- Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood says pressure is mounting for Australia as “more than 10,000” corporate collapses have occurred in a year.
“We are on track for the first time in 11 years to have more than 10,000 corporate collapses in a year,” told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“That equals job losses.
“If you start to have 10,000 small businesses going broke that is clearly going to be potentially a lot of job losses coming down the track for Australia.”
Mr Greenwood joined Ms Credlin to discuss speculation over rate cuts, construction industries, food services and more.
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- ‘Absolutely horrendous’: Cumberland Council attempt to push through treaty with no notice
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- 23 hours ago
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- Cumberland Councillor Steve Christou has called out his Labor dominated council for attempting to push through an Indigenous treaty in a meeting with no notice whatsoever.
“This proposal is absolutely horrendous,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“It’s a comprehensive document prepared by lawyers, and it states from the outset that it is a treaty upon the Uluru Statement.
“It goes on to say that we acknowledge as a council that the land we’re on was never ceded and never handed over to us and that we’re on stolen land.
“It’s very concerning – it was brought to council with no briefing to councillors, no legal representation whatsoever and I can’t believe how it even made the business paper.”
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- ‘They’re going to keep chanting’: US House of Reps condemns pro-Palestine chant
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- 23 hours ago
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- Pro-Palestine and anti-Israel protesters are not going to stop chanting ‘From the river, to the sea’, says ‘Together – Vouch for Each Other’ Association’s Yoseph Haddad.
His remarks come after the US House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the rally cry ‘From the river, to the sea, Palestine will be free’ as anti-Semitic.
“They will chant this and after two hours they will go to the pub, drink their beer, enjoy their freedom and enjoy their democracy while the Gazans in Palestine are suffering from the terrorist organisation Hamas,” he told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“While the Jews and the Arabs in Israel are suffering from Hamas, from the terrorist organisation Hamas.
“And also from Iran – the head of the snake we need to cut.
“So for them, they’re going to keep chanting that but the sufferers are us.”
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- Richard Marles’ defence spending timeline slammed
- Date posted
- 23 hours ago
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- Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie says Richard Marles is making “promises” on defence spending that won’t be realised for another 10 years.
Mr Marles unveiled another $50 billion of ADF spending over the next 10 years as he launched a new defence government strategy at the National Press Club on Wednesday.
The Defence Minister said the complex strategic circumstances being seen around the world required Australia to conduct the “biggest re-assessment” of its strategic posture in 35 years.
“What he announced yesterday was effectively a very modest increase in defence spending when you consider inflation and foreign exchange fluctuation,” Mr Hastie said.
“Only $5.7 billion over the next four years.
“I don't think that Labor is taking this seriously.”
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- Prince Harry may be forced to ‘back down’ in his legal case against The Sun
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- 23 hours ago
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- Royal commentator Kara Kennedy says it looks like Prince Harry will be the next one to probably have to “back down” in his case against The Sun.
“But ... Harry doesn’t back down, so it might be that Prince Harry is the one to take this all the way,” Ms Kennedy told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power.
Prince Harry may be forced to settle a lawsuit against The Sun because of “impossible” legal costs.
The Duke of Sussex may face pressure to resolve his High Court claim against The Sun’s publisher due to “impossible” legal costs, according to his barrister.
This comes after British actor Hugh Grant agreed to a deal and settled his case against the publisher due to the hefty legal bill he could be left with if he rejected their offer.
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- ‘Absolutely unbelievable’: Israel doing ‘everything’ it can to prevent war crimes
- Date posted
- 23 hours ago
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- ‘Together – Vouch for Each Other’ Association’s Yoseph Haddad has slammed the “ignorant” left for defending the actions of Hamas in its war against Israel.
“This is absolutely unbelievable,” he told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“Israel is committing war crimes? Israel is actually doing absolutely everything to prevent war crimes.
“Hamas – a terrorist organisation, it’s a terrorist organisation – killed Arabs and Jews, kidnapped Arabs and Jews, raped our women, beheaded our babies, burned entire families alive.
“And they are focusing on the only democracy in the Middle East.
“The only army doing absolutely everything to prevent all those atrocities, and all those war crimes, and they’re attacking us.”