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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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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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General election chatter rife in Britain | Sky News AustraliaBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called a cabinet meeting ahead of a no-deal Brexit showdown with MPs — fueling speculation he could call a general election.\n\nFormer justice secretary David Gauke, leading figure in the Gaukeward squad of 19 Tory MPs said to be willing to vote against the government to block a no-deal Brexit, said he believed Number 10 was trying to use the parliamentary ambush this week to seek an election.\n\nLabour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said he would back a general election under any circumstances if the prime minister was to want one.\n\nThe prime minister can only hold a general election if he gets the support of two-thirds of the House of Commons, effectively meaning that he needs the Labour Party's co-operation.\n\nThere had been suggestions Labour may not back a general election in case it allowed Mr Johnson to set the date after October 31, thereby pushing through a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister has a majority in parliament of just one.\n\nImage: AP You don't deliver democracy by trashing democracy! Prorogation PeoplesVote StoptheCoup BrexitShambles! I hope he doesn't betray Britain. The world needs Brexit because it will be the first step in dismantling the EU which will then dismantle the whole Globalist plan.
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‘MediaWatch needs media watching’ | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says the ABC’s program MediaWatch “needs media watching”.\n\nMr Kenny said the show was too eager to boost the cause of three former News Corp journalists who accused The Australian newspaper of a lack of objectivity despite their own ties to Labor.\n\n“What they had were three anti-Coalition, pro-Labor former News Corp employees, one campaigning for Labor, one working for the CFMEU and the other handing out and barracking for Labor,” he said.\n\n“And surprise, surprise, they were all lashing out at News Corp for placing scrutiny on Labor.”\n\nImage: News Corp Australia 'Chris Kenny says' The least impartial commentator you could find on any topic. Well done. That’s a thoroughly weird head isn’t it. Tonights Media Watch was just embarrassing.Piss poor journalism masqerading as serious current affairs with an insufferably smug host.
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Labor ‘being killed by claims of corruption’ | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Andrew Bolt says Labor is “being killed by claims of corruption” in three states with the Labor brand across the country “contaminated”.\n\nMr Bolt said New South Wales Labor is looking “sloppy” and like a train wreck after revelations during Independent Commission Against Corruption hearings where it was revealed a Chinese property developer allegedly gave an illegal donation of $100,000.\n\nIt’s “no wonder” federal Labor Leader Anthony Albanese is “trying to distance himself from it”, he said. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia sorry who is that in the photo Andrew Bolt is the guy who supports convicted child abuser George Pell, isn't he? Paedophile supporter has a short memory
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‘Unfortunate’ Labor has ‘descended into’ using PM’s religion | Sky News AustraliaSky News contributor Stephen Conroy says it is “unfortunate” Labor has “descended” into using Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Christian faith to debate the case of a Tamil family on the verge of deportation.\n\nLabor Senator Kristina Keneally called on Mr Morrison to “show Christian leadership” and to let Nadesalingam, Priya and their two children to stay in Australia.\n\nAdvocates urged the Coalition to let the family stay, despite a series of courts rejecting claims for asylum.\n\nSpeaking to Peta Credlin, Mr Conroy said Labor is “wiser to fight the case around the facts and avoid the rhetoric around the PM’s faith”. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia Who said kkk was wise? labor let me think i have eye ears toes and mouth etc...but what the fk no elbos ....
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