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Australia is 'staring down the barrel of an energy crisis by 2030' | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peter Gleeson says Prime Minister Scott Morrison has to take a risk on energy policy if he wants to win over undecided voters.\n\nIt comes after Victoria’s forced power blackouts last week left hundreds of thousands of Victorians without power on a 44 degree day, which exposed the 'craziness' of Labor's 50 per cent energy renewables target by 2030 . \n\nMr Gleeson says Mr Morrison needs to give Australians a choice when it comes to energy policy; between 'Labor renewables targets that will send the country broke, or a commitment to coal-fired power stations into the future that will help keep a lid on power prices.' \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n
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Studio 10 host called ‘racist’ in Australia Day debate | Sky News AustraliaStudio 10 co-host Kerri-Anne Kennerley has been labelled ‘racist’ by television and radio presenter and fellow panelist Yumi Stynes during an Australia Day debate.\n\nSky News host Rita Panahi says that using term racist in a discussion is a ‘predictable, lazy response’ that is used by many on the left argue to silence their ideological opponents. \n\nThe Outsiders host added that she applauded Ms Kennerley who 'put herself in the firing line' and raise the issue about the rates of abuse 'which should be talked about'. \n\n\n
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Qld govt building in flies upside down half-mast flag on Australia Day | Sky News AustraliaThe Australian flag was at half-mast and upside down outside a government building in Mackay on Australia Day.\n\nThe Joan Seden building is where the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service is based. \n\nManager Alanah Munro told the Mackay Mercury that it was done on purpose due to January 26 being ‘a day of mourning’ for some.\n\nSky News host Peter Gleeson says that the act ‘politicised an Australia federal department and that probably needs to be investigated’, and that the major of Australians are ‘completely over this sort of grandstanding’. \n\n\n\n\n\n
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