Harry Potter author JK Rowling is facing a wave of criticism from an army of online warriors after supporting a British woman who was fired from her job for saying people cannot change their biological sex.
Sky News host Rita Panahi says she "feels sorry" for Swedish activist Greta Thunberg because she looks like "a miserable child manipulated by adults".
Despite the rhetoric peddled by some politicians, the current drought is not the worst in recent Australian history according to Sky News host Rowan Dean.Sky News host Chris Kenny says "how dare you steal our magazine" to Time magazine's publishers after it made teen climate activist Greta Thunberg its Person of the Year.
Founder of the Switzer Report Peter Switzer says the stock market as well as the European Union would prefer for the United Kingdom to leave under the leadership of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.McDonald's has dumped a franchisee of two of its restaurants in northwest Victoria after the man was allegedly involved in a stoush with an Aboriginal artist.
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says “amazing new developments” have come to light in relation to “scandal” around historian Bruce Pascoe.Sky News host Andrew Bolt has questioned why tourists were allowed to be “put right in harm’s way,” moments before New Zealand’s White Island erupted on Monday.
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Australia needs to stop 'forcing' renewables or industries will flee 'unreliable' market | Sky News AustraliaThe Courier-Mail’s Renee Viellaris says Australia will 'still have a fire season” if all of the nation's coal fire generators are “shut down today'. \n\nMs Viellaris told Sky News that heavy industries such as Queensland’s aluminium factories “cannot operate” on renewables.\n\nShe also said industries “will go overseas” if Australia continues to “force” renewables upon them.\n\nIf Australia doesn’t export Queensland’s “very good” thermal coal, China and India will “get it from Indonesia”, said Ms Viellaris.\n\nMs Viellaris said that would result in an even worse 'environmental outcome”.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia
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Australia braces for record sweltering conditions | Sky News AustraliaLarge parts of Australia will feel the brunt of an extreme heatwave on Thursday with sweltering temperatures forecast for three capital cities.\n\nThe country recorded its hottest day on record on Tuesday, but it could again be defeated as Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra climb above 40 degrees on Thursday.\n\nThe South Australian town of Wudinna and the West Australian town of Forrest will both see tops of 49 degrees.\n\nThere is little reprieve in sight as the heatwave is expected to worsen on Friday, with more parts of the country expected to reach tops of 40.\n\nImage: Getty
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Australia to swelter as extreme heatwave scorches the country | Sky News AustraliaLarge parts of Australia will feel the brunt of an extreme heatwave on Thursday with sweltering temperatures forecast for three capital cities. \n\nThe country recorded its hottest day on record on Tuesday, but records are expected to be defeated on Thursday as Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra are all expected to climb above 40 degrees. \n\nForecasters warn temperatures could climb higher on Friday. \n\nWith high temperatures and strong winds forecast this week, fire authorities are bracing for a dangerous couple of days. \n\nImage: Getty
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Cornered Trump bites back at Democrats' 'coup' of an impeachment | Sky News AustraliaThe Democrats are attempting a “coup” and forging ahead with an “open war” on the United States’ democracy by following through with their “impeachment fantasy”, according to US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe Democrats are poised to introduce two articles of impeachment to the House of Representatives on Wednesday.\n\nThey are expected to pass, making President Trump only the third president to be impeached.\n\nIn a letter address to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Trump warned voters “will not soon forgive your perversion of justice and abuse of power”.\n\n“It is time for you and the highly partisan Democrats in Congress to immediately cease this impeachment fantasy and get back to work for the American People,” he said.\n\n“More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem witch trials.”\n\n\n\nImage: Getty
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Dumping coal to stop bushfires caused by lightning and arson is 'just crackers' | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peta Credlin says 'any idea closing down coal-fired power stations' will somehow stop bushfires caused by lightning strikes and arson 'is just crackers'.\n\n'It's human nature to think today's problems are the worst ever because memories are short and our sense of chronological history is poor,' she said.\n\n'The fact remains, the Black Thursday bushfires in Victoria way back in 1851 destroyed about double the area burnt out this year in New South Wales'.\n\n'And it's hard to see what role mankind's carbon dioxide emissions played then,' Ms Credlin said.\n\n'So let's hope for rain, because that Australian perennial drought is the real culprit here, along with the Greens on local councils putting the kibosh on hazard reduction burns.\n\n'But let's not think that the world is about to burn less coal anytime soon or that burning less coal is going to put out fires!'\n\nMs Credlin said tougher penalties for arsonists, more preventive burns, re-opening fire tracks in national parks and adequate funding for volunteer fire-brigades are 'what makes the difference', not commitments in Paris 'that only mugs like us bother to keep'.\n\n\n\n
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Britain will rid itself of the 'carcass that is the EU' | Sky News AustraliaIt is 'very positive' that Britain will remove itself from the 'carcass that is the European Union,' according to News Corp Business columnist Terry McCrann.\n\nBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed his new 'people's parliament' will 'get Brexit done', as MPs returned to the Commons for the first time since the general election.\n\n The Conservative party secured a resounding majority in Thursday’s general election in the UK, while Labour suffered its worst result since 1935.\n\nThe Brexit withdrawal agreement could be put before parliament as early as Friday. \n\n Mr McCrann told Sky News the election result should see Britain remove itself from 'all that bureaucracy out of Brussels'.\n\n Image: Getty
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