| News you can trust, opinions you can't ignore | | | | | | | | | Two male journalists have been booed during the Q & A portion of Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek's National Press Club address. | | | | | | | | Gary Cohn is departing the White House after clashing with the US President on trade policy. Cohn had been pushing Donald Trump to backtrack on his planned tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium prior to his resignation. | | | | | | | | The mother of a four-year-old girl was who raped and murdered in a Sydney caravan park is pleading for her daughter's killer to stay behind bars. | | | | | | | | An adult film actress is suing President Donald Trump and wants a California judge to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election. | | | | | | | | Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe has labelled US President Donald Trump's decision to raise tariffs on steel and aluminium as 'highly regrettable and bad policy.' | | | | | | | | BlueScope Steel Chief Mark Vassella is joining industry figures in raising concerns over US President Donald Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium. Mr Vassella joins Sky News to discuss the impact on both Australia and the American economy. | | | | | | | | Official figures show the nation's economy expanded 0.4 per cent in the December quarter and grew 2.4 per cent in 2017. | | | | | | | | The US State Department says America believes Pyongyang is behind the assassination of Kim Jong Nam. Mr Nam died after two women smeared his face with the banned chemical weapons agent VX at a Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017. | | | | | | | | The UK will 'respond robustly' if Russia is found to have been involved in poisoning former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury. | | | | | | | | Sky News has obtained documents relating to the death of a 12-year-old Alice Springs boy after an inhalant overdose in 2015. | | | | | | | | Citizenship Minister Alan Tudge has told Sky News Australia is at risk of following Europe's path of ethnic unrest, unless federal government policy intervenes. | | | | | | | | Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has signed off on a treaty which will see a permanent boundary established between Australia and Timor-Leste. The south-east Asian nation will now reap a massive benefit on oil and gas reserves in the region. | | | | | | | | Young risk-taking males accounted for the majority of drownings at beaches and waterways across NSW over the 2017-18 summer. | | | | | | | | US President Donald Trump has personally taken credit for the progress being made with North Korea after a dramatic de-escalation in tensions between the two nations. | | | | | | | | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is cautious about the recent breakthroughs towards a denuclearisation of North Korea, warning that countries across the globe must keep pressure on the rogue nation through sanctions. | | | | | | | | Rockhampton Mayor Margaret Strelow has taken aim at Bill Shorten after the Opposition Leader said he did not support the Adani coal mine project. | | | | | | | | One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has told Sky News that 'Bill Shorten should stay the hell out of Queensland', and that needs to stop chasing the Greens vote. | | | | | | | | A Japanese volcano has shot smoke and ash thousands of metres into the air, cancelling flights to a nearby airport. | | | | | | | | A Perth woman who killed her mother and buried the 76-year-old in their backyard will serve at least 20 years behind bars. | | | | | | | | A man is in hospital after a tourist minibus collided into Victoria's vintage railroad attraction Puffing Billy, derailing one of its carriages. | | | | | | | | A young boy is recovering after he was set upon by a dog while riding his bike in Newcastle. | | | | | | | | The release of the latest NAPLAN results is expected to fuel ongoing debate over the best form of schooling for Australia's children. | | | | | | | | South Korea says its northern neighbour is willing to hold talks with the United States on denuclearisation and will suspend nuclear tests while those talks are underway. | | | | | | | | Anti-gambling activists are demanding the New South Wales government reduce rather than cap the number of poker machines in gambling hotspots across the state. | | | | | | | | A Perth family has discovered the oldest-known message in a bottle more than 130 years after it was tossed overboard into the Indian Ocean. | | | | | | | | Sri Lanka's president has declared a state of emergency amid fears that anti-Muslim attacks could spread. | | | | | | | | US President Donald Trump's corporate tax reforms could prove costly to Australia if measures are not taken to counter the move. | | | | | | | | A Nationals Party review into alleged sexual misconduct by former leader Barnaby Joyce has reportedly found the scandal was mishandled. | | | | | | | | A man accused of flashing women jogging on Sydney's Bay Run has been charged with a string of offences including five counts of stalking, and is due to face court. | | | | | | | | There may soon be some changes to gun laws in Florida after the state Senate approved the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act. | | | | | | | | US President Donald Trump says he does not think there will be a trade war over tariffs, but it has not quelled concerns about the potential for global damage. | | | | | | | | Two more people have been diagnosed with listeria traced to contaminated rockmelon. | | | | | | | | Sri Lanka has declared a nationwide state of emergency after violent clashes between Buddhist and Muslim communities led to the incineration of Muslim-owned businesses. | | | | | | | | A Labor frontbencher has told Sky News that Bill Shorten has 'lost the plot' and is 'off the reservation' after the Labor leader public declared his opposition to the Adani coal mine project. | | | | | | | | South Australian Liberal leader Steven Marshall has dismissed claims Chinese businesswoman Sally Zou donated $1.2 million to the party. | | | | | | | | Day one of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences Outlook Conference was held on Tuesday, with the central theme of making sure farmers and businesses future ready. | | | | | | | | The head of the federal government's commodity forecasting bureau is unconcerned Australia is putting all its eggs in one basket when it comes to farm exports to Asian countries. | | | | | | | | Historian and Middle-East expert Dr Daniel Pipes says a shared dislike of western civilisation has seen an alliance of 'convenience' between Islamists and the political left. | | | | | | | | Amid disturbing reports in the Australian newspaper detailing cases of neglect in the Northern Territory, Sky News' David Speers speaks with Curtin University's Professor, Maria Harries. | | | | | | | | The Turnbull government isn't giving up hope US President Donald Trump could exempt Australia from new steel and aluminium tariffs, but AWU National Secretary, Daniel Walton says any exemptions from the tariffs will only go so far. | | | | |
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