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Steve Price, who replaces Chris Kenny on the Kenny report, will speak to the shadow housing critic about the government’s promise to cut 1. 2 million housing developments.
Peta Credlin will reveal how supermarket value thefts are worsening the cost-of-living crisis with Victorian Farmers’ Federation President Emma Germano.
And Fox News’ White House correspondent will give the latest on Donald Trump’s bid for the White House with Andrew Bolt.
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Sky News presenter Sharri Markson has criticised the Australian government as considerations grow over how Australian taxpayers’ budgets could simply be “exploited” for anti-Israel terrorism. “Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong have committed a total of $46 million of their cash to the Palestinians. since the terrorist attacks against Israel began on October 7,” Ms. Markson said. “Australia provided its first tranche of investment to Gaza on October 14, just a week after the unprovoked bloodbath of October 7, a week ago. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said today that Palestinian Authority officials will have to conscientiously manage the most recent $21. 5 million in investment to ensure it is not misused by terrorists. Array Wong warned Israel that it opposes its war in Gaza and called on the country to comply with foreign humanitarian law.
Sky News host Andrew Bolt has blasted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for his response to the Ukraine request for Taipan helicopters. Ukraine is pleading with the Australian government to donate its fleet of retired Taipan helicopters instead of dismantling and burying them. “I defy anyone to explain this, certainly the Prime Minister today couldn’t,” Bolt said. “Once again, no leadership, just pass the buck down the food chain.” Bolt was joined by Strategic Analysis Australia Director Peter Jennings to discuss the Taipan helicopters and Ukraine.
Liberal Senator Dave Sharma joins Sharri to discuss Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s decisions on her tour of the Middle East. Also, the editor of the Daily Mirror Royal, Russell Myers, reflects on Harry and Meghan’s resounding silence amid fears for King Charles’ health.
Sky News presenter Andrew Bolt reveals two shocking developments which he says “underscore how harmful and reckless China is”. Chinese scientists say they have created a new virus that may be even more fatal than COVID-19, 4 years after the virus almost in fact escaped from a Chinese laboratory. “It’s incredible,” Bolt said. These scientists from the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering have published a preprint in which they claim they created a COVID-19-related virus (evolved from pangolins) that caused 100% mortality in human transgenic mice. “I killed them all within 10 days, probably due to brain infections. ” Bolt also reviewed “new evidence” that China covered up COVID-19, after the Wall Street Journal reviewed documents exposed through the US Department of Health and a Congressional House committee: “It found that” A Chinese researcher had mapped and isolated ‘Maybe we had two weeks to prepare,'” he said.
Sky News presenter Peta Credlin criticised the Albanian government for its recent blunders in areas such as relations with China, defence and the economy, saying there was “a genuine sense of drift”. Credlin criticised Australia’s handling of the Chinese warship sonar incident. “I sense that the government needs to improve relations with the communist superpower, because while it poses a security risk to our region, China is also Australia’s largest trading partner,” he said. The Christmas incident in which Chinese sonar injured Australian sailors was Japan’s fault, simply because there was a Japanese warship nearby. He wondered why there had been no “serious response” from the Albanian government to the Chinese ambassador’s past reprimands. “Simply because Australia had the temerity to congratulate Taiwan’s new president, after fair elections in the only virtually independent country that China now needs to absorb. “
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy joins The Bolt Report for an exclusive look at the U. S. presidential race. In addition, Michael Kroger, former leader of the Liberal Party of Victoria, provides live updates on the Middle East from Tel Aviv.
Australia’s longest-serving foreign minister has issued a scathing rebuke to Penny Wong for her refusal to stop at the sites of the Oct. 7 massacre. Alexander Downer told Sky News Australia presenter Steve Price that he would in fact have made a “basic” holiday at the Israeli Kibbutzim where Hamas committed the ultimate commitment to its atrocities on October 7. I find it essential for any trip to Israel to stop at this site if you consider the gravity of what Hamas did that day, the enormous violations of human rights, the savagery of what it did,” Mr. Douter said. I thought it was basically vital for her to stop at us. “And I know why he doesn’t come to stop me. Possibly it wouldn’t come because the Labour Party is looking to balance, on the one hand. . . The prevailing opinion. . . that it needs Israel to continue to survive, with the kind of hardcore left that Labour fears will veer towards the Greens. “
Tonight Peta Credlin continues her focus on the crippling cost of living affecting millions of Australians, taking on the issue of supermarket price gouging and a shock warning over petrol prices.
In addition, Tom Slater, editor-in-chief of Spiked Online, reflects on British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s survival in the wake of the Rwanda bill.
Small Business Women Australia chief executive Amanda Rose weighed in on the Australian Open’s decision not to celebrate Australia Day, calling it a “missed” opportunity to celebrate the country’s multiculturalism. The Australian Open has been criticized for not celebrating the national day while celebrating First Nations Day, Pride Day and All Abilities Day. “It’s very, very disappointing,” Rose told Sky News presenter Steve Price. “It saddens me because, when you think about it, Australia means bringing other people together. “They need to get rid of that, get rid of the word Australia tournament entirely.
The Australian Open has been criticized for its “shameful snobbery” over the country’s national holiday. Despite setting aside days to celebrate Aboriginal Australians, pride, disability and even naming sponsor Peroni, tournament organizers do not recognize Australia Day. Sky News Australia presenter Steve Price said it was a “shameful silence” on the country’s national day. “You can’t make these things up. . . the highlight of the anti-Australian Australian Open, the Australian Hall of Fame occasion in which we “Reveal a bust of this proud Australian Davis Cup star and now captain Leyton Hewitt It will no longer have “The classic Australia Day occasion, which has been moved to January 24,” Price said. “Can anyone at Tennis Australia protect this disgraceful snobbery of our national day with a tournament named after our country? “It is a shame that the administrators who run Tennis Australia do not have the courage to drag down the South African who runs the organisation, Craig Tiley, get in line and insist that we recognize the wonderful country that gives its name to your tennis tournament.