Mr Mason told Sky News host Chris Kenny, “there is often some concerns about whether Olympics will go ahead and this one is starting to look a bit serious”.
On Wednesday it was announced that “it was a real possibility” the Olympics "could be cancelled” and it basically has “not been ruled out”. The IOC needs to make a decision by the end of May on whether to go ahead with the Olympics and “they may have no choice but to call it off” if the virus is still out of control, he said. Image: Getty
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China is 'behind' increased espionage threat: Hastie | Sky News AustraliaGovernment backbencher Andrew Hastie has told Sky News 'it's very obvious' that China is the main culprit behind a spike in foreign interference.\n\nASIO Director-General Mike Burgess has warned there are more foreign agents operating inside Australia than there was during the height of the Cold War.\n\nMr Hastie told Sky News host Peta Credlin Mr Burgess' speech 'was a very comprehensive speech'.\n\n'Australians can be very confident we have a great leader at the helm of ASIO'.\n\n Andrew Hastie is the best leader/politician Australia has to offer! It's good that Andrew Hastie has the backbone to speak up, instead of bowing like the rest. Another triggered MP. Dutton says its 'leftwing lunatics' clams... Islamic terror is leftwing extremism. Asio warns rightwing extremism in Australia was real and growing. Yep. The trigger words are 'right wing'... and they went off like a firecracker.
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‘It’s tough being a conservative’ if you work in Arts | Sky News AustraliaIt's a 'tough' environment for conservatives who are working within Arts departments, according to Sky News contributor Prue MacSween.\n\nHer comments are in response to a survey that appeared in the Daily Mail, which reported “that eight out of 10 people working in Arts stay silent about conservative views”.\n\nMs MacSween told Sky News “these days the sanctimonious elites are virtually bullying people into silence”.\n\n“Whatever happened to free speech and freedom of expression,” she said.\n\nImage: Getty So true! Cry. Me. A. River... MacSween and CampbellNewman think that there are no sanctimonious elites among conservatives? This show is a joke. A very bad joke. Dumb and Dumber.. thisisnotjournalism
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It must be ‘a national priority’ to address ‘crucial’ railway following deaths | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says it is essential for the important Melbourne to Sydney railway “to be reliable at good speeds and be safe,” following a recent trail derailment which led to two tragic deaths. \n\nTrain driver John Kennedy, 54 and his pilot a 49-year-old Victorian man were killed when their XPT train came off the tracks on a journey from Sydney to Melbourne.\n\nMr Kennedy raised concerns about the safety of the link in an email to a friend several weeks before the accident.\n\n“It is disgraceful that governments are spending billions on an inland railway and fast trains when this crucial line is left in such disrepair,” Mr Kenny said. \n\n“If we want to improve safety or cut emissions by shifting trucks off the road and passengers out of the airports, this railway is essential”. \n\n“It needs to be reliable at good speeds, and safe, and it should be a national priority”. \n\nImage: Twitter\u002F Rickard Scott\n Duh cunt Chris who? What is Ky News?
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ASIO issues ‘timely reminder of the threats our nation faces’ | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peta Credlin says ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess’ “Annual Threat Assessment” was a “timely reminder of the threats our nation faces”.\n\nMs Credlin said living in a “genial country like Australia” it is “easy to think that we have no real enemies,” however “there's Islamist fanaticism” that “wants to kill all those who don't share their view of God”.\n\n“For two decades now, our security agencies have been monitoring the fanatics in our midst,” Mr Credlin said, and these agencies have been “very effective in preventing the kinds of mass terrorism that countries like Britain, Spain and India have been subjected to”.\n\n“We need to recognise that not everyone is as benevolent as we might be, and that not all governments have the goodwill towards others, that ours does,” she said.\n\n“We need to keep resourcing our security agencies. \n\n“We need to ensure that the online world does not remain the virtually ungoverned space that it currently is.”\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n
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Espionage activities are 'reaching a high point' in Australia | Sky News AustraliaExecutive Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute Peter Jennings said the operation of foreign spies on Australian soil recently uncovered by ASIO indicates that our political independence” could be seriously compromised.\n\nOn Monday ASIO Director-General of Security Mike Burgess said a sleeper agent had been operating in Australia for years, gathering intelligence on dissidents before he was caught by the intelligence organisation and thrown out of the country.\n\n“What Mr Burgess did was lift the veil on a number of intelligence practices which will come as news to a lot of people in the broader community,” Mr Jennings told Sky News Host Chris Kenny. \n\n “These types of espionage activities have been happening in Australia for many years” but they are “reaching a high point at this moment,” he said. \n\nMr Jennings believes it to be “critically important” that Australians understand the significance of the threat that has been uncovered by ASIO and don’t think of it as “some type of James Bond fiction”.\n\nWhile the government has not publicly attributed the espionage operation to any particular nation, Mr Jennings said “China is the biggest strategic problem that we face at the moment”. \n But spy for what? Technology? Soil? Weather? Energy? Not sure what the spies look for. Why not turn the guy and have him feed back ambigious info implying other suspected spies had turned....then kick back & watch the show. No point outing him & deporting the guy. Hell just be replaced by another agent. It wouldnt be hard to make him afraid of going back to china.
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'There is a war brewing' between Barilaro and Matt Kean | Sky News AustraliaSky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says “there is a war, and it can’t be called anything else, between the Deputy Premier (John Barilaro) and Environment Minister Matt Kean” within the NSW government. \n\nMr Barilaro and Environment Minister Matt Kean have been at loggerheads recently over policy issues within the NSW state government, primarily concerning climate change and hazard reduction. \n\nMr Barilaro also recently criticised a policy, supported by Mr Kean, relating to the restriction of freight train emissions. \n\nMr Clennell told Sky News host Peta Credlin the two politicians “have become a real issue for the NSW government”. \n\n“They’re at completely opposite ends of the political spectrum and they’re throwing punches at each other.\n\n“And Gladys Berejiklian isn’t really intervening, she’s just letting the war go out in public … it’s quite an extraordinary situation”. \n\nMr Clennell said, as party leader Ms Berejiklian, “should be getting them together and saying, ‘hey sort it out, sort it out behind closed doors’”. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia aclennell JohnBarilaroMP Matt_KeanMP Tiff? aclennell JohnBarilaroMP Matt_KeanMP 'Mr Clennell said, as party leader Ms Berejiklian, “should be getting them together and saying, ‘hey sort it out, sort it out behind closed doors’”. ' Selfish reasons really. It means he and sky 'hosts' have to work harder making the Coalition look good. That's the job, do it. BenOquist aclennell JohnBarilaroMP Matt_KeanMP Go Matt go!
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