The race to replace outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May is heating up, as the two lead contenders face the final hustings of the Tory leadership contest.
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are addressing the party faithful in London in a last ditch attempt to convince MPs that they are the best choice to lead the country. The current frontrunner Mr Johnson has used his speech to address fears surrounding the future of the conservative party. Meanwhile Mr Hunt has reassured the party's support base that he can be trusted to deliver Brexit despite voting 'remain'.
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Moon landing reflections highlight Australia’s key role | Sky News AustraliaMan's first steps on the moon were beamed almost 380,000 kilometres through space and back to Earth when television was in its infancy.\n\nJuly 20 marks 50 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the lunar surface and Australia played a key role in showing the world the moment.\n\nOn board Apollo 11, the crew communicated with NASA through Australia-based radio telescopes.\n\nImage: AP
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Investment needed in ‘natural and unavoidable’ climate change | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Alan Jones says investment is needed to deal with ‘natural and unavoidable’ climate change, instead of ‘tying ourselves in knots’ over carbon dioxide.\n\nThe broadcaster says the world will face natural climate change in the future, ‘just as we have in the past’.\n\nMr Jones notes research by Northumbria University scientist, Valentina Zharkova, who has studied natural climate cycles over thousands of years. \n\nHer team has found earth is currently in a phase moving closer to the Sun, which will peak in 2600 after a temperature increase of between 2.5 and 3 degrees Celsius.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia AlanJones
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Indigenous voice and treaty ‘about land and money’ | Sky News AustraliaOutsiders host Rowan Dean says the call for an Indigenous voice in the constitution as well as a treay ‘is about land and money’.\n\nSpeaking to Peta Credlin, Mr Dean says non-Indigenous people are not ‘at war’ with Indigenous Australia, saying the idea of a treaty is a ‘complete fabrication’ in which individuals are held responsible for ancestral actions. \n\nMr Dean says reparations being asked for means money, and native title means land, as a test for how the law can be ‘made flexible’ for land and money grabs.\n\nImage: Kym Smith \u002F News Corp Australia\n rowandean Nobody will lose. A way forward . The only fabrications are Rowan's assertions. Fair minded people know what this is about, let's not get distracted. There will be no 3rd chamber, no apartheid, no division. No individual will be held responsible for ancestral actions. rowandean rowandean and Credlin -two great minds, each respectively in their own unique way! Only a numpty wouldn’t recognise a treaty as being about “us” and “them”, and the inherent conflict of interest implied. -a precursor to left’s socialist long term objective ‘divide and conquer’? rowandean Yes it might be. But at some point the country has to make an point of recognising inclusiveness. It has not been done. But it does imply that we conquered this land. Which doesn't appeal to me. Just needed a place for convicts. And look what happened?
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Much that happens in govt ‘is driven by officials’ | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peta Credlin says much that happens in government is ‘driven by officials’, pointing to the recent calls for an enshrined Indigenous voice in the Constitution.\n\nMs Credlin notes it seems that what governments campaign on in an election is ‘almost entirely different’ from the issues that consume them in office, that ‘no one ever voted for’. \n\nShe believes the Morrison government needs to be ‘very careful’ with the idea of a legislated voice, as the issue is ‘getting away from them’ and ‘dividing us by the colour of our skin’. \n\nImage: Kym Smith \u002F News Corp Australia\n\n rowandean I just want one person to explain how this is going to be good for aborigines? rowandean Pay the rent rowandean The other point is maybe the Govt should be focused on land ownership by foreign countries including China or is it too late
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Govt is ‘asking for trouble’ with push for Indigenous voice | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peta Credlin says the government is ‘asking for trouble’ if it continues its push for an Indigenous voice to parliament.\n\nMs Credlin says the government could end up dividing itself and angering its supporters with the policy, noting the only party that talked about putting an Indigenous voice into the constitution during the last election was Labor. \n\nThe Sky News host says she could ‘never be persuaded to divide Australians by race’, especially as she believes the whole course of our history ‘was to avoid distinctions based on race, colour, gender, or creed’. \n\nImage: Getty What like a Carbon Tax that wasn't a Carbon Tax its a fucken mystery thats what it is who could possibly understand it oh hey weren't you a chief of staff for a prime minister Credlin sooking about the own tricks she used on the Australian people. Meanwhile Credlin, how is that strong economy ? The liberal plan working ? NocredCredlin
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Adani claims ‘administrative error’ responsible for prosecution | Sky News AustraliaAdani CEO Lucas Dow says an administrative error is responsible for the Queensland government’s prosecution of Adani for allegedly providing false information over land clearing.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, Mr Dow says the error was self-identified and reported in September last year, and that the work undertaken complied with their authorities and conditions.\n\nMr Dow says from their perspective, they thought the matter was closed but as the ultimate regulator, the Queensland government ‘obviously thinks otherwise’. \n\nThe Queensland Environment Department says the matter is listed for mention at the Brisbane Magistrates Court on August 16. \n\nImage: Mark Cranitch \u002F News Corp Australia\n
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