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News Corp jumps on One Nation bandwagon
News Corp’s growing support for One Nation follows a familiar playbook: protecting billionaire interests by repackaging far-right politics as a movement for ordinary Australians, writes Dr Victoria Fielding. NEWS CORP FOUNDER Rupert Murdoch hates U.S. President Donald Trump. In 2023, it was reported that Murdoch hates Trump so much that he wishes he would die. Yet, this personal hatred has not stopped Murdoch from hitching News Corp to the Trump MAGA bandwagon.
The ship that proves Australia is losing global fuel security...
Australia’s future now hangs on a complex international chess game involving ships carrying liquid fuel from distant refineries across the oceans to our shores. It is sobering to track this traffic in real time on a Kpler dashboard, where loaded vessels appear as green arrows inching towards their destination. Touch an arrow and the name of the ship appears, along with its cargo, the port it left and the one it is bound for.
Chris Uhlmann looks back on the Howard government 30 years after its first election ahead of new Sky News documentary
Time is the best measure of governments, and the one John Winston Howard led for 11 years, from March 1996, is ageing well. Former prime minister Tony Abbott lists those which followed and finds each wanting by comparison, candidly including his own. “I used to say back in the Rudd-Gillard era that the longer the Rudd-Gillard government lasts, the better the Howard government will look,” Abbott told Sky News.
‘Still would have lost’: Peter Costello says 2007 election outcome wouldn't have been different if he'd ousted John Howard as party leader
Peter Costello does not believe he could have led the Coalition to victory at the 2007 election if John Howard had resigned as prime minister. The candid admission from Australia’s longest-serving treasurer came in an exclusive interview with Sky News to mark the 30th anniversary of day one of the Howard government’s first term.
‘Gough tuned out’: John Howard remembers the collapse of the Whitlam government 50 years on from The Dismissal
The Scotch whisky flowed plentifully as the entourage of Prime Minister Billy McMahon came to terms with electoral defeat in December 1972. Twenty-three years of Coalition rule had come to an end, and the federal president of the Liberal Party was commiserating with a young lawyer and rising party star, John Howard. They were preparing themselves for a long, hard road in opposition, as an ascendant Gough Whitlam commanded the political stage and Labor strode to government.
The Dismissal 50 Years On: Sky News documentary revisits the brutal 'battle of egos' that changed the course of Australian history
On November 10, 1975, a Canberra schoolgirl was playing the quaint old game of elastics with her sisters when she fell and hurt her ankle. In a response that speaks of the era, her army officer father told the 10-year-old to tough it out. But the next day her ankle blew up and her mum took her to Woden Valley Hospital, where a fracture was diagnosed.
Sky’s ‘War Cabinet’ manufactures panic and prophecy over proof
Sky’s ‘War Cabinet’ manufactures panic and prophecy over proof By Binoy Kampmark | 21 August 2025, https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/skys-war-cabinet-manufactures-panic-and-prophecy-over-proof,20069 Sky News assembling a cabinet of experts to talk about Australia’s readiness for war is a problem we should be worried about, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark. TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR NEWS networks have demonstrated that surfeit kills discretion.
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'Costliest illusion in history': Chris Uhlmann tears into the green energy 'transition', reveals how little has changed in how much fossil fuel the world burns | Sky News Australia
Since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, when the world first committed to tackling climate change, carbon emissions have continued to rise every year with just two exceptions: the 2009 global financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic. In both cases, emissions fell only because of wrenching economic dislocation. And while much has been said about the energy transition, the numbers tell a more stubborn story. Little has changed in how much fossil fuel we burn. What has changed is where.
'Hope is not a strategy': Ex-Home Affairs chief Mike Pezzullo issues withering assessment of Australia's missile, submarine defence capability
“Hope is not a strategy.” With that one line, former Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo cuts to the heart of Australia’s strategic complacency. In a wide-ranging interview for Powerlines, Pezzullo lays out a devastating account of how successive governments have failed to prepare the nation for a far more perilous world. The warnings were there.
'Only one side promised a miracle': Chris Uhlmann urges Bowen to stop telling people their power prices will fall
At Thursday’s National Press Club energy debate, I asked Energy Minister Chris Bowen a simple question: “Have electricity prices risen on your watch?” Once again, he refused to concede it, saying only that prices were higher than the government would like. On that, we can all agree. Sky News Political Contributor Chris Uhlmann has urged Chris Bowen to stop telling people their power prices will fall after the Energy Minister failed to directly answer questions about rising electricity prices.
'The Real Cost of Net Zero': Inside the Albanese government's renewable energy plan
Australia is in the middle of an energy revolution. The Albanese Government wants over 80 per cent of electricity to be generated by wind, solar and hydro power in the next six years. That’s over double what it is now. And both major parties have committed to cutting carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. It all comes wrapped in a guarantee of a greener - and cheaper - future. But will it be? If the cost blows out, who pays? If the lights go out, who will be responsible?
Albanese government’s cheap renewable energy transition was always going to fail, Sky News investigation reveals
Belinda Jones lives a short drive and a world away from Parliament House in Canberra. The chasm between her life and political platitudes is written in the latest electricity bill of the mother of three and full-time carer. “This is what I call a payday killer,” Belinda told Sky News, as she used a wooden spoon to point to hand-written calculations scrawled on the bill. “It's come in at $1073.31. My pay, which is the pay of most age pensioners, is around $1,144.
Spiralling cost of energy crippling manufacturing, Cadbury boss warns as Minerals Council chief issues warning about Labour's Future Made in Australia plan | Sky News Australia
The boss of confectionary icon Cadbury says the runaway cost of energy is crippling manufacturing, and the bill will inevitably be picked up by consumers. It comes as the Minerals Council chief warns the Albanese Government’s Future Made in Australia plan is doomed, if power prices do not fall.
Labor government's ambitious 2030 green energy target built on a backbone of fossil fuel, Sky News' Chris Uhlmann reveals
The Albanese Government’s plan to more than double green electricity generation in the next six years is built on a backbone of fossil fuels. The man charged with delivering Labor’s pledge to source 82 percent of electricity from wind, solar and hydro power by 2030 says natural gas will be the “ultimate backstop” for keeping the lights on because weather dependent generators can’t deliver consistent power.
'They live for this sport': Ukraine rugby league community spurred on by NRL superstar Nathan Cleary
Of all the things you might expect to see in war-torn Ukraine, a thriving rugby league community probably isn't one of them. And yet on a chilly afternoon, in fading sunlight, an Australian documentary crew found itself on a school oval taping the under-14 Kyiv Rhinos training session, led by coach Yevhen Zubritskiy. As he directed his charges about the field, barking out commands, it was clear that Yevhan had picked sides in Australia's annual state-versus-state grudge match.
Have our Bushmasters helped the Ukrainians? I asked Hanna Hurava mogaznewsen
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It's time to crunch the numbers on the transition from fossil fuels
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here Analysis: We are used to hearing world leaders talk in blizzards of numbers about targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and activists bidding higher, demanding the world move faster to net zero. But has anyone sat down and done the calculations on the physical requirements of completely retooling an industrial system that was built over more than 100 years on coal, oil and gas?
'Is this a dangerous act? Of course': Japan Ambassador says China's Taiwan actions 'shocking'
Japan's Ambassador to Australia, Shingo Yamagami, has branded China's use of ballistic missiles in its live fire exercises around Taiwan as "shocking" and a "dangerous act", that matched the rogue behaviour of North Korea. Some of the missiles had fallen in Japan's exclusive economic zone, a response to the visit by US House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, that was "disproportionate" and "beyond our comprehension". "Is this a dangerous act? Of course," Ambassador Yamagami said.
Make no mistake, energy transition will be difficult and costly
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'We must all work together': Liberal MP Nicolle Flint prepared to meet with Labor on women's safety
4:27pm Mar 17, 2021 Federal Liberal backbencher Nicolle Flint says she's prepared to sit down with Labor's Penny Wong and Tanya Plibersek after she accused the opposition of politicising the issue of women's safety. Delivering an emotional speech in parliament, the member for the South Australian seat of Boothby claimed the pair failed to support her after she was subjected to harassment and stalking in the lead-up to the 2019 election.
Drug deals, dirty money and links to Beijing: Australian police bring down Asia’s ‘Mr Big’
One of the world’s most wanted alleged drug barons – a billionaire dubbed Asia’s El Chapo – is set to finally face justice in Australia after federal police carried out a covert plot to arrest him after he was deported from Taiwan. Tse Chi Lop, 56, was arrested after departing on a flight to Canada on Friday in a stunning coup for the Australian Federal Police, which has tracked his suspected involvement in multiple billion-dollar drug importations into Australia since at least 2008.
Protesters storm US Capitol and halt election debate; Pence will noty block certification of Biden as President
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here 7:45am Jan 7, 2021 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Welcome to the 9News.com.au live blog for Thursday, January 7, 2021. Protesters have stormed the US Capitol building, where details were being finalised on the US Election. Politicians were evacuated, and tear gas was used. Meanwhile, Sydney is preparing for the SCG cricket to begin- with crowds being forced to wear masks.
Australia breaking news today, live coronavirus updates and latest headlines November 20, 2020:
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here 5:44am Nov 20, 2020 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Welcome to the 9News.com.au live blog for Friday, November 20. Follow throughout the day for key breaking news developments, coronavirus updates and livestreams from Australia and around the world. President Donald Trump's lawyer has insisted his team has enough evidence of voter fraud to overturn the US election results.
Afghan war crime inquiry recommends criminal investigations into alleged actions of 19 current or former soldiers
There is "credible information" that Australian special forces soldiers killed 39 civilians or prisoners in the Afghanistan War and a long-running inquiry into the possible war crimes recommends police launch criminal investigations into the actions of 19 current or former soldiers. The "brutal truths" the Prime Minister warned were coming in the release of a four-year long military investigation into rumours of a toxic warrior culture in the Special Air Services Regiment have been realised.
Chris Uhlmann opinion: As America votes, the world is holding its breath
OPINION: Four years ago Donald Trump was just a reality TV star, compelling, shocking and occasionally amusing but harmless, distant and unreal. We could delude ourselves that the Presidential candidate was America's problem. We were told not to worry - all the polls and all the pundits said Hilary Clinton would win easily. She didn't. He won. And he shook the world.
AFP warning over explosion of child exploitation incidents during the coronavirus pandemic
Australian Federal Police Commissioner, Reece Kershaw, has told parents it's essential that they know what they children are doing online, amid an explosion of child exploitation incidents during the covid pandemic. The Commissioner, who has been in the job for 12 months, says his officers are encountering a massive spike in cases of children being groomed and incidences of extortion, in which they are tricked into sending photos to online predators.
Coronavirus live updates: Australia begins on the road to recovery
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We can't return to business as usual with China
The virus sweeping the world has ended globe-trotting diplomacy, but virtual gatherings have flourished as leaders swap notes on the battle against a virus. The G20 meeting was convened via a video link by Saudi Arabia on April 7 and it turned into a piece of performance art, vividly illustrating the limits of technology and the glaring flaws in the current crop of premiers, presidents and prime ministers.
The Idiocy of Outsourcing Vital Manufacturing
Social distancing is the defining phrase of 2020 but next year will bring a new one: self-reliance.
Australian licensed venues to be closed from midday, states shut borders, dire health warning to youth
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here 1:23am Mar 23, 2020 KEY EVENTS live feed Emirates to ground international fleet Long-haul flight customers around the world have been left in limbo after global airline Emirates confirmed it will suspend all of its passenger flights beginning from Wednesday amid the coronavirus pandemic. The decision is a major one for the Dubai-based, government-owned airline built on linking the East to the West.
Chris Uhlmann: 'A lot of life has changed biblically today'
Life is changing in ways that were unimaginable just weeks ago – and these changes are just the start, Nine's Political Editor Chris Uhlmann has warned. Scott Morrison has announced another sweeping series of shut down measures following tonight's emergency National Cabinet meeting, with the first cracks in the relationship between the PM and heads of state beginning to show.
The super labs in Myanmar's jungles fuelling Australia's ice addiction
Australia's methamphetamine addiction is being fuelled by some South East Asian nations ceding parts of their sovereignty to warlords and drug traffickers, according to a top United Nation's official. The UN's Office on Drugs and Crime has tracked a surge in synthetic drug trafficking from the Golden Triangle borderlands of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand and estimates the trade is now worth between $45 billion to $90 billion a year.
Deadly and disruptive flu outbreak in 1919 instructive for Australia today
On Tuesday March 25, 1919 a Sydney court fined 19-year-old Eileen Leigh 20 shillings for not wearing her face mask on a tram. Her alternative to paying today’s equivalent of an $80 fine was seven days in jail. The NSW government had mandated masks be worn in trains, trams, ferries, lifts and on crowded streets on February 3, just days after it announced the state had been infected by pneumonic influenza, or the “Spanish Flu”.
'I wasn't sent here to lead a rabble': Deputy PM hits out at Nationals colleagues after leadership spill
Embattled Nationals Leader Michael McCormack is digging in his heels, declaring "you haven't seen how much of a fighter I am." In an exclusive interview with 9News Political Editor Chris Uhlmann, the Deputy Prime Minister urged his colleagues "to focus on what matters," representing "country people". "Time will tell," Mr McCormack replied as he was asked if he is expecting another attempt to spill his leadership. Michael McCormack urged his colleagues to "focus on what matter".
The decade Australia became a dangerous place for prime ministers
It was the decade when Australia became a dangerous land for Prime Ministers - with the fall of Kevin Rudd and the end of Malcolm Turnbull's reign bookending ten years of political chaos and instability. Nine Network political editor Chris Uhlmann and political reporter Kerrie Yaxley look back at two seismic episodes - the leadership spill that kicked off the decade and the end of Tony Abbott.
WA Premier Mark McGowan met with now-defunct Australian Chinese Labor political party in 2015
As Labor pursues a Victorian Liberal MP over her links to the Chinese Communist Party's influence unit, it appears the West Australian Labor Party has similar connections. Gladys Liu is under fire in federal Parliament for her 12-year association with the Guangdong provincial chapter of the China Overseas Exchange Association.
Chinese company interested in Australian healthcare giant that holds sensitive military records
A Chinese company's interest in Australian healthcare giant Healius is raising concerns in Canberra because it holds sensitive military medical records, including those of the elite special forces. The Morrison Government says any move to acquire the $2 billion pathology and radiology company would trigger a Foreign Investment Review Board inquiry, where the national interests would come "first and foremost".
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Chris Uhlmann's farewell to one of Australia’s most dominant figures
That’s the sentiment around the country as we stop to remember one of the dominant figures of Australia in the 20th century, a man who left an enormous mark on our society and made it a better place. Bob Hawke is someone who came into our consciousness in the 1950s and 1960s as a leader of the Australian trade union movement, and then went on to lead the Labor Party. Some of the final photographic portraits taken of Mr Hawke in the weeks leading up to his death saw him smiling and content at home.
Hawke tells: how to look to the future - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 24 Apr 1992
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Labor's climate plan could wipe $264b from economy
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here 7:39am May 2, 2019 Day 22 Scott Morrison starts his day in the Tasmanian seat of Bass, while Bill Shorten will be campaigning in Melbourne. Candidates up and down the ballot are dropping like flies, as their social media past comes back to haunt them. live feed Shorten and Morrison's cash splashes Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten have two very different approaches to spending money, but they are spending lots of it.
Federal Election 2019 live coverage: Day 20 of the election campaign
Shorten won the debate: voters Undecided voters picked Bill Shorten as the winner of the first leaders' debate, despite questions about the cost of his tax and climate policies. Of the 48 voters watching the debate in person, 25 said Mr Shorten won, 12 picked Scott Morrison, and 11 remained undecided. Mr Morrison pressured the Labor leader on how much he will increase taxes and what his climate policies will do to the economy.
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Spy chief and Duterte: Enlisting the devil to keep the peace Analysis Posted August 24, 2017 14:22:40 | Updated August 24, 2017 19:42:59 If Nick Warner briefly humouring Rodrigo Duterte by posing for a photo is the price of encouraging his cooperation with Australia in the fight against Islamic State, it's a small one to pay, writes political editor Chris Uhlmann.
BOB CARR. Real diplomacy could have avoided China's coal revenge (Australian Financial Review, 3 April 2019)
The ban on Huawei itself isn’t the problem, but the way that some arms of the government rubbed China’s face in it. Opinion has firmed that Beijing’s restrictions on Australian coal are intended to send a message. Imposed in December the restrictions are seeing coking coal from Australia fall 21 per cent while imports of Mongolian coal rose 47 per cent. It’s wiped billions of dollars off mining stocks.
Is the federal budget an election winner? The number we aren't seeing
By Chris Uhlmann Ignore the blizzard of numbers in the pile of Budget papers because the only one that counts isn’t in it. That number is 76. By Sunday, the Prime Minister is expected to call an election to contest the 151 seats in the House of Representatives and the party that can cobble together 76 wins. The Government is running from behind. A by-election loss and a bad redistribution means it starts the race on 73 seats. Labor will line up on 71.
Australian airstrikes may have killed up to 18 civilians in battle to liberate Mosul from Islamic State, ADF says
Up to 18 Iraqi civilians might have been killed by an Australian airstrike during the house-by-house battle to liberate Mosul from Islamic State in 2017. Two investigations could not confirm how many civilians died or whether they were killed by a 500 pound Australian Air Force bomb, other Coalition airstrikes or at the hands of Islamic State fighters.
Chris Uhlmann: Andrews' win in Victoria could pave way for Hawke-like victory for Shorten
This is an epic victory for Daniel Andrews and Labor, and a crushing loss for Matthew Guy and the Liberal Party brand. By the time the final votes are tallied, Labor could win 61 seats in an 88-seat Victorian parliament – that is 16 more than it had before Saturday - with Mr Andrews returned for a second term as Premier. What we have seen is not just a repudiation of the local Liberal party, the Victorian Liberal Party, but a repudiation of the Liberal Party brand.
Victorian state election 2018 live blog: Results, candidates, issues
Liberal's shot at election victory died with Turnbull When the knives fell on Malcolm Turnbull in August any, slim, chance the Liberals had of winning the Victorian state election was also killed. The push to get rid of the Liberal leader came from Queensland, driven by those convinced the wet toff from Wentworth didn’t play well to the conservative base north of the Tweed River.
Victorian state election 2018 Chris Uhlmann Liberals odds low for win
When the knives fell on Malcolm Turnbull in August any, slim, chance the Liberals had of winning the Victorian state election was also killed. The push to get rid of the Liberal leader came from Queensland, driven by those convinced the wet toff from Wentworth didn’t play well to the conservative base north of the Tweed River.
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