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ABC's Tony Jones issues rare on-air correction over Sky News ratings | Sky News AustraliaHost of the ABC's Q&A program Tony Jones has issued a rare on-air correction, at the very end of the broadcast of the show, regarding comments which disparaged Sky News television ratings aired on the publicly-funded broadcaster.\n\nDuring a live broadcast of the network's weekly flagship political program on August 26 Shadow Immigration Minister Kristina Keneally noted that platforms including 'Sky News After Dark' were growing in Australia.\n\nThe Shadow Minister was interrupted by ABC host Tony Jones who interjected that the subscription television network was 'growing to a very small audience, to be fair. You’re probably talking about 5,000 people watching at that time', followed by an invitation to 'correct the record' by Sky News.\n\nSky News CEO Paul Whittaker took up the offer to correct the record and wrote to ABC management including recently installed Chair Ita Buttrose and news director Gaven Morris requesting a correction to the record to adhere to the ABC's charter which mandates factualness.\n\nMr Whittaker noted in the letter that Sky’s evening average viewership between 6pm and 10pm on Foxtel alone, 43,921, is 'more than eight times higher than the number referenced on the Q&A program' which outrates ABC News in Foxtel homes by 350 per cent.\n\nIt also receives ratings on par with ABC News across regional Australia via its Sky News on WIN channel which is a commercial operation and receives no government funding to operate.\n\nSky News’ recent half-yearly results saw a 29% audience increase year on year to its evening programming. In primetime Sky News reaches 472,000 Australians per week on Foxtel and 374,000 per week in regional Australia on Sky News on WIN, to deliver an audience 12 times larger than the publicly funded broadcaster claimed.\n\nThe correction from the national broadcaster follows a recent study by independent media monitoring service Streem which showed 'newsworthy' print and online media articles, examining more than one million Exactly! When is he leaving?! The Australian people have had enough of Tony Jones. Please move on! Still, nobody watches because the content and presenters have damaged the brand too much. Nobody watches Sky, its crap.
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Australia has a ‘moral duty’ to let Tamil family stay: Keneally | Sky News AustraliaAustralia has a ‘moral duty’ to ensure a Tamil family who are currently in immigration detention are not deported to Sri Lanka, according to Labor's Kristina Keneally.\n\nNadesalingam and Priya fled Sri Lanka, arriving by boat separately in 2012 and 2013 and settling in the Queensland town of Biloela.\n\nThe couple had two daughters before being moved into immigration detention in 2018.\n\nAdvocates have urged the Coalition to let the family stay, despite a series of courts rejecting their claims for asylum.\n\nMs Keneally told Sky News the government has an obligation to protect this family as they have “stayed in Australia for some time” and have “put down roots.”\n\nShe says the Immigration Minister has the discretion to intervene in this case and 'do the right thing.' \n\nImage: News Corp KKeneally She’s wrong. KKeneally According to KKeneally, we all have a duty to do everything she says we should do, or we are immoral. KKeneally Absolute RUBBISH They knowingly broke the law - enough. There is no danger is Sri Lanka - they returned 3 times for holidays. Send them back and stop this nonsense 😡
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'The government turned their backs on the Tamil family' | Sky News AustraliaGreens leader Richard Di Natale has lashed out at the government for attempting to deport a Biloela family, saying Australia was “the only place [the two children have] ever known'. \n\nPriya, Nadesalingam and their Australian-born children four-year-old Kopika and two-year-old Tharunicaa were taken to Christmas Island after an 11th hour injunction stopped them from being deported. \n\n“They came here, started a life, they were welcomed with open arms by a community in regional Australia who opened their hearts while the government had turned their backs on them,” Di Natale told Sky News Australia. \n\n“We know the situation in Sri Lanka is very volatile,” the Greens leader said. \n\n“We know that these are people that witnessed extreme brutality in the midst of an ongoing civil war.” \n\nThe family was taken from its home and has been held in a Melbourne detention centre since March 2018 following the expiry of the mother’s temporary bridging visa. \n\nThe family's case is due to be heard in the Melbourne Federal Circuit Court on Monday. Send all country shoppers home. One rule for all. He doesn't want to deport anyone though. Funny how our government kicks out these people who are working, good members of the community, well adjusted.. and instead let in criminals...
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Suspected people-smuggling boat intercepted west of Christmas Island | Sky News AustraliaA fishing boat carrying 13 suspected illegal immigrants has been intercepted west of Christmas Island. \n\nThe Home Affairs department said it was the sixth boat to have made the journey from Sri Lanka to Australia since May. \n\nThere were reportedly just 12 boats intercepted en route from Sri Lanka to Australia since Operation Sovereign Borders began in 2013, indicating a fresh surge in arrivals this year. \n\nPeter Dutton blamed a bill which made it easier for refugees and asylum seekers held in offshore detention to be flown to Australia for medical attention. \n\nThe government is pushing for the medevac bill to be repealed when parliament returns next week. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia see what is happening? they have been watching the news and thinking these SriLankans will get to stay we voted for closed borders and to stop the boats I thought they stopped the boats? Is ScottMorrisonMP going to throw his plaque in the bin? They should be fine as long as the tell PeterDutton_MP they are just a boat load of au pair’s fehowarth And, oddly, the exact same boat is pictured being intercepted here in this Sky News article from July. Hmmm. hometobilo auspol
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Australians need to 'be alert, not alarmed” by the economy | Sky News AustraliaNicki Hutley from Deloitte Access Economics told Sky News everybody is “going to be on the edge of their seats” ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) board meeting on Tuesday. \n\nMs Hutley said the RBA would be looking for the difference for the third-quarter outlook, with one of the most significant factors being tax offsets and whether they “flowed through to the economy”.\n\nAccording to Ms Hutley, “it is highly probable we will see another interest rate cut”, so Australians need to “be alert, not alarmed”.
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Marriage of cameras with AI could lead to ‘dystopian’ surveillance | Sky News AustraliaThe Australian’s Chris Griffith says the proliferation of cameras combined with artificial intelligence is creating a growing problem where machines can understand the movements of people and identify individuals among crowds.\n\nThe technology reporter told Sky News a “dystopian” example of what shouldn’t take place is underway in China where cameras are used to pick out and “shame” jaywalkers.\n\n“I can see great benefits in CCTV but I also see a lot of importance in us putting the boundaries around it so what little privacy you do have left is there for us,” Mr Griffith said.\n\n“It’s uncharted waters.”\n\n“The other issue is whether organisations who are using cameras should make some declarations to what that use is for.”\n\n“If they’re using that data to work out when you get there, when you leave, and try and use it for marketing purposes, well they have to declare it and people then have to say whether that’s a valid use or not.”\n chris_griffith How’s all the Coalition’s corruption scandals involving billions of dollars of Australians money being funnelled to companies directly associated with senior LNP members associates and family members
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