Australian TV presenter Karl Stefanovic has expressed his shock at a harrowing report on the UK’s Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs in successive interviews with Tommy Robinson and Holly Valance.
“I don’t understand why it’s not a national crisis”
Karl Stefanovic has released a statement after it was confirmed he had left Nine, saying he wished his time at the network “wasn’t ending like this”.
The longtime ‘Today’ host thanked viewers and colleagues after more than two decades with the broadcaster, following controversy over his independent podcast interview with Tommy Robinson.
“I’m free!”
Karl Stefanovic drops his statement after being axed by Channel Nine for daring to interview Tommy Robinson.
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Billionaire James Packer has defended his long time friend Karl Stefanovic, saying he did not believe the controversial Tommy Robinson podcast interview was “that bad”.
Elon Musk has now weighted in on the story too, replying “Wow” to a post about the furore.
Karl Stefanovic drops his statement after being axed by Channel Nine for daring to interview Tommy Robinson.
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One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson claims Channel Nine would be “bloody stupid” to sack Karl Stefanovic. “They’re bloody stupid to do it,” Ms Hanson told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “They’ve gone so far to the left, Channel Nine; they’re making a big mistake.”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has issued a warning after being questioned on Karl Stefanovic’s imminent sacking by Nine over his Tommy Robinson podcast.
Anthony Albanese has weighed into the Karl Stefanovic controversy, suggesting the broadcaster had strayed too far from the mainstream.
Speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia event at Parliament House on Thursday, Mr Albanese said he would not directly comment on the drama engulfing the network.
However, the Prime Minister, who appeared on The Karl Stefanovic Show earlier this year, did have a warning for media personalities like Stefanovic.
Karl Stefanovic has reportedly been dropped by Nine after interview Tommy Robinson for his podcast. Picture: YouTube
“Look at what’s happened,” the Prime Minister said.
“You go down that road and you go further and further out on the edges of what is mainstream political debate in this country, and you know, I think that can have an impact.”
Home Affairs minister Tony Burke failed to explain
The last ISIS bride will return to Australia, despite a temporary exclusion order which was supposed to stop her from coming home for national security reasons.
OUTRAGE: Somalian born ISIS bride Hodan Abby welcomed back to Australia by Anthony Albanese & Tony Burke despite major national security red flags.
Hodan Abby left our country to live under ISIS. Now the Albanese Government has caved and issued her a return permit, with the usual pathetic excuse that “the law made us do it.”
Liberal MP James Paterson is dead right: the Albanese Government have failed at every turn.
These people are NOT welcome here.
Hodan Abby is Somalian, not Australian born, and holds dual citizenship. Strip her passport and deport her straight back to Somalia.
She chose the caliphate over Australia.
We owe her nothing.
Labor once swore they’d never bring this cohort back. Weak borders, weak leadership, same old story.
Trusting government spooks with ever more power over Australians instead of targeting Islam with the full force of existing laws is self-defeating. Al Bozo & Burka Tony have already derailed the Royal Commission looking into the Bondi Massacre by excluding Islam from their findings, which is a disgrace.
The Albanese government has been accused of a “complete mismanagement” of the ISIS brides cohort after the nation’s top spy addressed the ongoing terror threat against Australia.
The Coalition has claimed there is “little prospect” of a reduction in Australia’s terror threat from “probable” to “possible”, with the party accusing the Albanese government of a “complete mismanagement” of the ISIS brides cohort.
The nation’s terror threat remains at “probable”, with knowledge of a specific planned attack needed to escalate it further to “expected”.
In his address, Mr Burgess stressed: “I do not believe the system was designed for a situation like the one we now face”.
On Wednesday, Mr Burgess warned the nation faced a more volatile security environment marked by rising social tensions. Picture: NewsWire/Martin Ollman Shadow home affairs minister Jonathon Duniam has demanded the Albanese government ensure ASIO’s warnings are “taken extremely seriously”.
“It is fair to say that Australia is facing a complex mix of threats – including from foreign interference, espionage, online radicalisation, and antisemitic violence,” he told SkyNews.com.au.
“Religiously motivated violent extremism, including Islamist extremism, clearly remains one of the most serious and most enduring of these threats.
The Rape Crisis organization, designed to help and ‘believe’ rape victims, completely invalidates their experiences by calling their testimonies ‘unhelpful’ and ‘irresponsible.’
When Jen was 17, she was introduced to a gang of Iraqi Kurdish Muslim men who called her and other girls “white trash” and “English pig‑dogs” while they raped and trafficked them across the U.K. to rape gang ”parties.”
Jen decided to speak up in the Rape Gang Inquiry Report “so that religiously-motivated coercive abuse is properly recognized and confronted, even when doing so is politically, culturally, or socially controversial.”
In response, Rape Crisis England and Wales, a U.K. “feminist” social services organization “working to end sexual violence and abuse,” released a statement calling the report racist for pointing out that 95% of the gang members are Muslim and exploited girls because they were white.
“It is unhelpful and irresponsible to attribute sexual violence and abuse perpetration uniquely to specific races, ethnicities or religions,” the organization states. “Framing the issue squarely in terms of immigration undermines joined-up, community-based responses to tackling misogyny and rape culture.”
The organization highlights how much they “commend the courage of the survivors who shared their horrific experiences” and how important it is for victims to be “believed and supported.” The organization even has an anti-racism statement where they explain, “just as sexual violence and misogyny are a continuum, we also know that racist violence is too.”
Negotiating with Islamic terrorists in general is a humiliation ritual. The moment you agree, you’ve lost face, shown weakness and it is now their mandate to humiliate you as much possible in order to extract maximum advantage while failing to keep any promises that they make.
Our leaders still haven’t learned this most basic fact from history. Including American history. (In two recent articles, “The Truth About the First Muslim Country to Recognize America” and “America Has Been Fighting Islamic Attacks for 242 Years”, I discuss how Adams and Jefferson learned this the hard way, trying to make treaties with Muslims in Algiers and Morocco, only to have them demand tribute and attack us anyway.)
So Iran is now doing exactly what I and anyone who knows anything about Islam and geopolitics predicted it would do, closing and opening the strait and demanding more. Currently Iran is demanding that the United States stop Israel from fighting back against Hezbollah attacks in Lebanon.
Assuming that J.D. Vance secures a blank check for Iran’s terrorists in Lebanon, there will be more demands, more closures and the humiliation rituals will go on until we wake up and stop jumping every time the terrorists shout… or until Iran’s ‘Death to America’ motto has been achieved.
You can’t negotiate with Islamic terrorists. All you can do is be taken hostage by them. Choosing to negotiate with them is choosing to be taken hostage. The moment we stop negotiating, the hostage crisis ends.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told reporters on Wednesday that his agency would “indeed” conduct inspections of Iranian nuclear sites, as the Iranian terror regime agreed to allow such inspections in its peace deal with America.
Looks familiar? You’re right. We have seen this before:
Secretary of State John Kerry apologized for suggesting that Israel risks becoming an Apartheid state but this did not satisfy Israel’s distrust of the peace process after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a new unity agreement with Hamas, which the U.S. recognizes as a terrorist organization.
THE U.N. SAYS ISRAEL “DELIBERATELY TARGETED CHILDREN.”
Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem gave an Ashura speech on Sunday where he came up with a new Jewish conspiracy theory.
He stated, “Israel, through its presence and influence, has imposed in some countries that verses that speak about the Jews should not be taught so that future generations do not learn the history of the Jews and remain ignorant of historical facts.”
Essentially he is saying that some Muslim countries, under Israel influence, are not teaching the verses of the Quran that are negative towards Jews.
Which means that the head of Hezbollah just admitted that the Quran is antisemitic.
Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says an agreement has been reached with the United States to release $12bn in frozen Iranian funds.
Trump says Tehran agreed to allow international nuclear inspections and any released Iranian assets will be solely used to buy US agricultural products.
So far, there has not been any direct statement from Iran on whether inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be let back into the country.
Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says an agreement has been reached with the US to release $12bn in frozen Iranian funds.
This comes after the US announced a temporary easing of sanctions to allow the sale of Iranian oil and petrochemicals until August 21.
US President Donald Trump says Tehran has agreed to allow international nuclear inspections and that any released Iranian assets will be used to buy US agricultural products.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli troops will continue to occupy southern Lebanon and “demolish” Hezbollah infrastructure.
Lebanon
A new round of US-mediated negotiations between Israel and Lebanon begins today in Washington and is due to last until Thursday.
Here’s what you need to know:
Lebanon is represented by Ambassador Nada Moawad, while the Israeli delegation is headed by Ambassador Yechiel Leiter. US officials are also participating in the talks.
The negotiations mark the fifth round between the two sides.
The latest discussions come after US-Iran negotiations resulted in a ceasefire agreement on June 19 and the creation of a “Lebanon de-confliction cell” tasked with supporting efforts to end Israeli attacks in the country. The ceasefire has largely held.
Lebanon is seeking Israel’s withdrawal from the south of the country, where the Israeli military have established a so-called “buffer zone” that encompasses about 6 percent of Lebanese territory.
Israel says it is seeking the “disarmament” of Hezbollah.
Hezbollah says the talks should be limited to “mutual security” and that its weapons must be kept off the table.
Here’s what happened overnight:
Iran says technical talks in Switzerland with the US have successfully concluded, and that the next phase of negotiations will involve the high-level political committee overseeing the mediation.
Iran’s Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has defended the decision to hold talks with the US, saying Iranian delegates went to Switzerland to end the bloodshed in Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Israel Katz and Chief of the General Staff Eyal Zamir say Israeli troops will continue to occupy southern Lebanon.
The UN says Sunday marked the first time its peacekeepers detected no air attacks in Lebanon since March 2.
Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi reaffirms commitment to “toll-free passage” in the Strait of Hormuz after talks with Iranian diplomats in Muscat.
The people of Spain are now fed up with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Not because he recognized a “state of Palestine.” Not because he has put in place a boycott of all goods made in Judea and Samaria. Not because he has threatened to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for “war crimes.” Not because he has now put a permanent embargo on all weapons that might be sent to Israel. No, the people of Spain are against Pedro Sánchez because he runs the most corrupt regime since the time of the late, unlamented Fascist — in the true sense — Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Sánchez, his wife, his brother, and his closest allies have all been implicated in overlapping corruption scandals. More on the protests against Pedro Sánchez, his grasping wife, his greedy brother, his greedy and grasping political allies, can be found here: “WATCH: Spanish Protesters Flood the Streets Demanding the Resignation of Socialist PM Sánchez Mired in Corruption Scandals,” by Paul Serran, Gateway Pundit, May 23, 2026:
The problem in Iran is Islam.
Until that ends, there will be no change.
“There was a little bit of threatening, there was a little bit of whining. But at the end of the day, the talks continued and we made great progress.”- J.D. Vance
Trump obviously wants to put an end to this war. Democrats and the media successfully turned public opinion against it. Gas prices turned public opinion against it. Worse still for the president, due to the sudden and unexpected opportunity to take out most of Iran’s leadership four months ago, there was no opportunity to sell the public on the need to go to war with Iran before the war started. Continue reading Trump: if Iran closes the straight again they won’t have a country anymore
