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The United States has launched strikes on facilities linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Iran-backed militia in retaliation to a deadly attack in Jordan last weekend. Three American troops were killed in the drone attack which targeted a US military base in northeastern Jordan near the border of Syria, and left at least 40 others

A popular gym has cracked down on influencers videoing their workouts, banning tripods and requiring patrons to purchase “media passes” amid ongoing safety and privacy concerns. Doherty’s Gym, which has three locations in Melbourne and one in Perth, has told patrons filming on tripods will “no longer be permitted”, citing concerns about privacy and safety.

Labor has started 2024 with a stunning display of deception. We haven’t even got to the first parliamentary sitting week and a major election promise has been jettisoned because the Prime Minister seems to have suddenly discovered the cost of living crisis. While the rest of the electorate has been well aware that cost of

It takes a lot to make busy country people angry enough to march on Canberra, but Chris Bowen’s energy policy has done the trick. Next Tuesday, the largest protest held in Australia against grid-scale renewable energy will take place outside Parliament House. Unlike most other Canberra protests, few attending the National Rally Against Reckless Renewables

Tottenham star Son Hueng-min has ended the Socceroos’ dreams of Asian Cup glory with a superb quarter-final display for South Korea. The Taeguk Warriors advanced to a semi-final date with Jordan with a 2-1 win at Al Janoub Stadium. However, for so long it seemed that it was going to be the Australians reaching the

Journalist Katharine Murphy – who is set to join the Prime Minister’s office – has been the author of some of the most “pretentious, self-righteous articles” about ethics in politics, according to Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton. Mr Houghton slammed the “hard left” reporter after she accepted to work for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s

Author Douglas Murray recounts asking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about “personal culpability” after multiple failings which led to the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas. “I pushed him on the question of personal culpability for October 7 for the multiple failings that clearly went on, on the Israeli side that allowed such a barbarous attack

Sky News host James Morrow reacts to a satirical comedy skit which looks inside the “Hamas PR team”. The skit posted to social media lampoons the terrorist group, showing a marketing team attempting to help Hamas “with their messaging”. “We kind of want to make them not look like terrorists,” says the head of the

Menzies Research Centre’s Nick Cater says the government’s money is being used to “make Australians poorer” from the new laws being put in place for environmental activism. Mr Cater joined Sky News host Rita Panahi to discuss how green activism has resulted in Australians becoming poorer and created a major issue with energy shortages predicted

Sky News host James Morrow says a Democratic Congressman’s complaints at Capitol Hill about what Donald Trump will do on the border if elected will end up being an ad for the former president’s election campaign. Californian Democrat Congressman Robert Garcia made claims Mr Trump would create alligator moats, electrify the fence, use fighter jets

Life after a World Cup win looked different for Australia but just as dominant as a new opening batter defied a Covid positive and a breakthrough fast bowler put the West Indies to the sword in an eight-wicket romp at a sparsely populated MCG. Playing an ODI for the first time since that epic triumph

America’s southern border is being labelled a ‘rolling humanitarian disaster’. In December 2023, US-Mexico border crossings again reached a record monthly high. There has also been an alarming increase in the number of people on the terrorist watchlist stopped at the southern border. When Joe Biden was sworn in as President just over three years

Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham has slammed Labor premiers for their “pathetic and ridiculous” fight against the Reserve Bank, which should be “with the federal government” instead. The Victoria, Queensland and Western Australian premiers have demanded the Reserve Bank cut interest rates to help families cope with cost of living pressures. The RBA will

Violent illegal migrants who were involved in the assault of two NYPD officers on Saturday were seen flipping off cameras following their release from custody on Wednesday. The weekend assault, which took place at Times Square, led to five arrests, with four of the suspects released only hours later. Jhoan Boada, 22, the suspect openly

Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham says Australian taxpayers’ money should not be “filtering through an organisation” where it could be going to those “promoting extremism and undertaking terrorist attacks”. Australia paused funding for the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees last week after the organisation said several employees were allegedly involved

Supermarket chain Aldi is recalling an ice-cream maker over concerns a defect could cause “serious illness” in customers. In its product recall post, Aldi said the freezer bowl in the Ambiano soft serve ice-cream maker contained a clear coloured coolant that could leak into the ice-cream mixture if the bowl was pierced – an event

Executive Council of Australian Jewry Co-CEO Alex Ryvchin has condemned the use of “abhorrent terms” by a “violent mob of thugs” at the Sydney Opera House on October 9, after the police investigation into the incident concluded. A police investigation into the pro-Palestine protests at the Sydney Opera House in the wake of the October

TalkTV contributor and lawyer Paula Rhone-Adrien says she worries the definition of feminism has been “overtaken”. The Guardian reports one in six British men aged 16-29 say feminism has done more harm than good. Ms Rhone-Adrien joined Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan and TalkTV International Editor Isabel Oakeshott to discuss whether feminism is harmful.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will pledge nearly a billion dollars towards extending Melbourne rail projects into the city’s Bayside area during his visit to the Dunkley electorate today. New stations at Langwarrin and Frankston are being touted as the Opposition try to snatch the seat from the government. The by-election for the seat will be

The Rubin Report host Dave Rubin says “diversity hire” Karine Jean-Pierre is “clearly not qualified” to be the White House Press Secretary. “It is an important job to be the press spokesman for the White House,” Mr Rubin told Sky News Australia host Paul Murray. There were these three soldiers killed in Jordan by a

Shadow Education Minister Sarah Henderson says there is a “full-blown teacher shortage crisis” in Australia. Ms Henderson told Sky News host Chris Kenny that it comes at a time when families can “barely raise the money” to put school lunches in their kids’ bags. “One in three children across this country are currently failing NAPLAN.

Sky News host Caleb Bond says the amount of data people hand over to companies for AI to make the world a better place is scary as Android phones are set to receive new Bard AI for message assistance. “If you’ve got an Android phone, they are going to attach their Bard AI program –

Sky News host Paul Murray says he had a “whole plan” after winning the Powerball but unfortunately he did not. “I’ll be honest, I had the same plan you did,” Mr Murray said. “But none of us won Powerball. “$200 million has gone, whether it’s been won or not we’ll find out in the next

Australia’s most powerful energy producers have slammed legal claims and environmental hold-ups. Sky News host Caleb Bond said these are projects that are often “supported” by the federal government in some way or another. “But at the same time, federal money is being spent on this environmental defender’s office. “So the federal government is funding

Sky News host Andrew Bolt has reacted to a story which shows how easy it is to “fool” the ABC and “whip up a mob to hate” Israel and Jewish people. Arrests have been made after a Burgertory restaurant owned by a pro-Palestine activist was set on fire in Caulfield in Melbourne’s southeast last year.

Sky News host Paul Murray says Australia is in an “absurd situation” in which every state in the country has a problem with ambulance ramping. “Queensland, in particular, is really bad and the same government has been there for the best part of 30 years,” Mr Murray said. “Every time this story comes up, you

Sky News host Danica De Giorgio says it is very clear Anthony Albanese is “starting to feel the pressure” after his backflip on stage three tax cuts. Anthony Albanese continues to face the heat for breaking his election promise and changing the stage three tax cuts. “He’s lost all credibility – no matter what he

Stepmates Studios’ Mark Nicholson says the “wheels are off the wagon” for the Labor government in the new year so far. “It’s delightful to watch … there is something sick inside me that’s just enjoying this now,” Mr Nicholson told Sky News host Chris Kenny. This comes as Anthony Albanese faces the heat for breaking

New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters says his meeting on Thursday with Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles was “expansive”. He, along with New Zealand Attorney-General Judith Collins, joined Mr Marles and Ms Wong in a press conference on Thursday in Melbourne. “It’s not been about politics, it’s been

A local health service in Victoria is facing bizarre claims it organised fake patients for a government visit last year. The initial story by the Colac Herald detailed claims from a whistleblower that fake staff and patients were arranged to stage an emergency department at Colac Area Health back in August when Victoria’s Health Minister

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says Australia is committed to working with New Zealand on defence and anti-terrorism operations. “There is no country in the world with whom we are closer than New Zealand,” Mr Marles said during a press conference on Thursday. “We have committed to working much more closely together in terms of

Political commentator Ben Shapiro speaks about his recent visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, describing it as “a difficult trip”. Mr Shapiro visited alongside tech billionaire Elon Musk who has recently come under fire for his endorsement of anti-Semitic ideas on the platform X. “I’d never been to Auschwitz before, just even on

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro says Hamas and Islamic Jihad have committed “war crimes” in their use of hospitals as a “terror base”. Israeli Security Force commandos disguised themselves as doctors and patients to raid a hospital in the West Bank to kill three Hamas and Islamic Jihad members. “By all international law, using a hospital

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has criticised the problems of foreign policy – which are people looking for “immediate solutions” at the expense of “realistic solutions”. “It makes Israel safer by not allowing the governing party in that region to actually be fomenting the violence, providing weaponry, providing education to small children that reinforces all of

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro finds it “very bizarre” international law is invoked in the “response to a war crime”, but the original war crime, after Israel conducted a hospital raid in the West Bank. Israeli Security Forces have been accused of violating international law after commandos disguised themselves as doctors and patients to raid a

Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson says there is “a very real risk” that the Albanese government’s reformed stage three tax cuts could delay rate cuts. “It’s a very real risk, with haphazard economic management we’ve seen from Jim Chalmers and the Albanese government,” Mr Paterson told Sky News Australia. “This is a government that

Australian cricketers appeared to enjoy a scandalous one-liner at the annual Cricket Awards in Melbourne on Wednesday evening. The hosts of the event, The Grade Cricketer podcasters Ian Higgins and Sam Perry, provided the entertainment throughout the evening, popping jokes and putting some of cricket’s big names on the spot. Before announcing the Allan Border

Independent analyst Evan Lucas believes while June is a “relatively positive view” for the Reserve Bank to cut rates, it is “more likely” they will cut rates in the latter half of the year. The Reserve Bank of Australia will meet next week for their first meeting of 2024 to decide on the official cash

The Environmental Defenders Office is facing further calls for its funding to be scrapped after the Federal Court found it distorted and manipulated the views of Indigenous people. Northern Territory Labor MP Luke Gosling says he will raise the issue with Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek when parliament sits next week. “The criticism of the conduct

The US Federal Reserve has left the interest rate target unchanged but withheld specific details on rate cuts, according to CommSec’s Craig James. The US rate target remains at 5.25-5.5 per cent. Mr James said the Federal Reserve didn’t provide any “specific guidance” on future rate cuts. “Saying they want more confidence that inflation is

An Adelaide woman has been duped in what appears to be a Facebook Marketplace scam after she was given a selection of random items disguised in a cardboard box. The Craigmore woman named Debbie spent $550 on what she thought was a 65-inch flat screen TV. Instead, she was instead given a bag of cat

Joe Biden is pushing for new economic sanctions on Iran in addition to possible military action following the deadly drone attack in Jordan. Iran-backed militia launched an attack on a US base near the Jordan-Syria border, killing three American soldiers and injuring dozens. The US President says he has decided how the nation will respond

Home prices have remained steady into the New Year but an expert warns house prices will rise in 2024 despite strained affordability sitting at a three decade high. PropTrack’s latest Home Price Index report shows capital city home prices were “relatively flat” throughout January and only lifted by 0.02 per cent following a small drop

Sky News host James Macpherson says political elites are the “biggest problem” in the Indigenous activism issues surrounding “woke” corporations and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. “Aren’t these activists really just taking woke corporations, the woke prime minister at his word,” Mr Macpherson said. “I’m no longer really that angry or annoyed at them. “They’re not

Sky News host James Macpherson says former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett is “making sense” on a proposal to solve youth crime around Australia. “He is proposing, that instead of putting juveniles in prisons where they are only made even more prone to crime by hardened criminals there, that we put them in work farms,” Mr

Sky News host Paul Murray has broken down the latest inflation data from December 2023. “Most people believe that, with the headline figure starting to go down, that automatically means there’s going to be no rises in interest rates,” Mr Murray said. “This seemed to be the overall thumping message you got from much of

Sky News host James Macpherson says Indigenous activists have vowed to squat in Melbourne’s CBD until Kings Domain parkland is handed over to them. “Indigenous activists have vowed they will squat in Melbourne’s CBD until the Kings Domain parkland is given to them,” Mr Macpherson said. “It – features a memorial to 38 Aboriginal people

The Megyn Kelly Show host Megyn Kelly says E Jean Carroll has been “giggling on every single show” about her alleged rape by Donald Trump. A US jury found former president Donald Trump must pay more than $US83 million to E Jean Carroll in her defamation trial. The case was brought by the former magazine

Columnist Justin Smith says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “took a hit” over his broken promise on stage three tax cuts and is now trying to “push it back” onto the Coalition. “Unfortunately, that’s the way the modern politician is – when you’re in a bit of strife, you always try and push it back onto

Columnist Justin Smith says political staffers asking for a 20 per cent pay rise amid the cost-of-living crisis affecting the rest of the country is “fairyland”. “So, 20 per cent, that’s a whack of cash,” Mr Smith told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “You do get the feeling this is one of those, let’s shoot