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UK experiences coldest night in seven years | Sky News AustraliaThe UK has experienced its coldest night in seven years as temperatures in the Scottish Highlands plunged to minus 15.4 degrees Celsius. \n\nHeavy snow has also been falling across southern England bringing ringing with it, travel chaos for flights and local train services with many motorists forced to abandon their vehicles in the snow.\n\nBritish Airways has warned passengers some short-haul flights to and from Heathrow could also be cancelled.\n\nWith even more freezing temperatures expected in the coming days, local officials have warned residents to stay alert.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Your point being? Global Warming has finally struck in Scotland ! A Carbon Tax won’t fix that ! Global warming
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May braces for crucial day of Brexit voting | Sky News AustraliaUK Prime Minister Theresa May is bracing for another crucial day of voting that could change the course of Brexit, with several amendments tabled for her 'Plan B' deal. \n\nOn Wednesday, MPs will vote on 14 amendments, which include time extensions to prevent a no-deal Brexit, 'alternative arrangements' for the so-called 'Irish backstop' and provisions for a second referendum if negotiations end in a no-deal.\n\nMs May has encouraged MPs to back the Irish backstop amendment in order to show the EU her Brexit deal will attract support if it is altered or removed.\n\nThe Irish border has proved a significant hurdle for Brexit negotiations, with the backstop policy seeking to protect the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and avoid the return of a 'hard border'. \n\n\n\n\n BillsonBruce Proof positive that today’s politicians don’t give a toss what the people want. It’s all about them! BillsonBruce People have put forward a solution that will carry a majority of people. It was the referendum to leave. Get it done and stop trying appease everyone but your voting citizens. BillsonBruce Oh, it’s the ethical midget on the payrolls of both the Gov and a lobby group simultaneously
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North Queensland braces for further flooding | Sky News AustraliaNorth Queensland residents are being warned to expect more flooding as heavy rain continues in the region. \n\nHouses were inundated by more than a metre of water after 300mm of rain fell in four hours at Bluewater, near Townsville.\n\nRescuers were going house to house late on Wednesday in the fast-flowing floodwaters that washed through streets sweeping away cars, swing sets, fridges, livestock and a tractor.\n\nEarlier, swift water rescue boats, water police, SES personnel and firefighters rescued residents trapped by the fast-rising waters.\n\nImage: Facebook\u002FMargaret Fisher\n\n\n\n Wonder what house prices are gunna be like up there after this continuous storms. Probably difficult to get house insurance!
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‘It’s been a wacky, fantastic year’: Rita Panahi | Sky News AustraliaWorld Hijab Day is celebrated in 140 countries. RitaPanahi: A woman celebrating modesty culture is like a slave celebrating their chains. It is utterly perverse and has no place in a civilized society that values equality. MORE: thefridayshow RitaPanahi FFS Rita, tell that to your cohort at Sky News, Murdoch Media, and LP. RitaPanahi Yet you all had a fit when Indonesia were going to delay the FTA due to the embassy decision. What happened to your love of sovereignty? You people are hypocrites auspol RitaPanahi Our government hasn’t got any balls to have got at Indonesia or China they suck up to foreign governments
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AMP collecting $100m a year from inactive 'zombie' accounts | Sky News AustraliaFinancial services company AMP has been collecting more than $100 million in fees every year from inactive 'zombie' superannuation accounts.\n\nThe firm, plagued by scandal in the banking royal commission, is made up of more inactive accounts than active ones.\n\nIt matches Productivity Commission estimates that a third of all super accounts are unintended multiple accounts.\n\nThe government is now working to return lost savings to Australians under a 'Protecting Your Super Package'.\n\nEfforts to pass the plan have so far been thwarted by super funds seeking amendments.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n australian michaelpachi 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 australian michaelpachi Where's PeterGleeson63? australian michaelpachi How are they framed as better economic managers when all this material is as a result of Royal Commission they fought tooth and nail to prevent. A good economic manager wants the unvarnished truth so they can deal with reality...right now Libs are deluded
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North Qld flood crisis 'one in 100-year event': Qld Premier | Sky News AustraliaQueensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has called north Queensland's flooding crisis a 'one in 100-year event'. \n\nEmergency evacuations are set to continue into the weekend with up to 500mm of rain predicted to fall across the region.\n\nThe Ross River dam has been released due to fears of overflowing however there are renewed concerns for residents due to the influx of more water to regions downstream.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n AnnastaciaMP Next year she can call it a twice in a 100 year event, and the year after... AnnastaciaMP AGAIN.... AnnastaciaMP Wet season in FNQ happens a bit more frequently than every 100 years. Come on. Some truth would be good. I remember flooding like this in Cairns in the mid 1990’s. Flew relief to communities.
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Taxpayer funded ads should be banned in an election year | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Paul Murray says that state and federal government should not be allowed to use taxpayer money for advertisements in an election year.\n\nThe Morrison government has spent $25,874,586 on taxpayer funded ads since 1 January 2018.\n\nMr Murray says the money should be spent on other issues, such as the federal deficit. Imagine if they spent that much exposing all the brands that flout our tax system? We’d have tens of billions more in the budget! How come I can only remember Clive Palmers?
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'Australia cannot be stalled on climate change policy any longer': Shorten | Sky News AustraliaFULL MEDIA CONFERENCE: Opposition leader Bill Shorten says Australia ‘cannot be stalled on climate change policy any longer’. \n\nMr Shorten says renewable energy policy uncertainty ‘is killing us’ and ‘this nation can’t afford to waste any more time’. \n\nThe Labor leader says the Coalition needs to act on climate change rather than ‘just waiting for another unhappy Liberal to run against them’. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n Bill the socialist grub is a snake oil salesman 30+ years of coal power plants remain in Australia. Any action from Shorten, will be impotence veiled in virtious sanctimony. With respect I don’t know what the Labor policy is apart from its commitment for 50% emissions reduction compared with 26% by the LNP. How will it achieve this target and at what cost? It will be great to know then we can focus on solutions rather than rhetoric.
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Australia Day celebrations take place across the country | Sky News AustraliaThousands of Australians are turning out at events across the country to mark Australia Day, but not everyone is out to celebrate. \n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison attended a citizenship ceremony in Canberra where he granted citizenship to 28 new Australians. \n\nAnother 16,000 people will become citizens today, with the largest citizenship ceremony being held in Parramatta, Sydney.\n\n\n Why do pple think Aus. day means anything, it's only been around in current form since 1994. Why not make 26 Jan a day of sorrow and reflection, in that case? Oh, it is already for many people! Having a separate day of reflection would make 26 Jan even more divisive than it already is! deb2829 Isn't that what Sorry Day is?
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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 This is disgraceful, many died for this flag, who can we contact Simon your fellow panellist from the IPA does all the time! I've never heard you bitch about that Exactly. Tax payer money must only be wasted on politicians’ business class travel and other personal habits. Flying flags upside down must have cost a fortune!!! PoliticalFuckwits
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