Sky News Australia Begins Rolling Coverage of Labor Leadership Crisis

Sky News Australia has suspended its schedule to devote the channel to full coverage of the Labor leadership crisis.

The non-stop, breaking coverage is being led by key political journalists and commentators; Political Editor David Speers, and Chief Political Correspondent, Kieran Gilbert in Canberra, Political Reporter Ashleigh Gillon, and Sky News contributors Peter Van Onselen and Chris Kenny, all providing exclusive insight, analysis and expert opinion.

Sky News set the agenda on Sunday morning with its exclusive interview with former Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd. Every key moment since then has unfolded live and in full on Sky News.

Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who ousted Rudd in a leadership coup prior to the last election in June 2010, has announced a Labor leadership ballot at 10.00am on Monday, February 27.

Sky News has extended special editions of;

• First Edition, Newsday, National News and News Night
• The Contrarians at 4.00pm and 8.00pm tomorrow
• Saturday Agenda at 8.30am, 12.30pm and 8.30pm on Saturday
• Australian Agenda at 8.30am, 12.30pm and 8.00pm on Sunday
• Special editions of PM Agenda at 4.30pm on Saturday and Sunday and 10.30pm on Sunday

Sky News Business will carry full coverage of business and markets reaction to the political turmoil (Channel 602).

Sky News will have rolling coverage from 5.30am on Monday in the lead-up to the ballot.

Tune into Sky News for the latest, up-to-the-minute developments and breaking analysis with dedicated channels on Sky News MULTIVIEW and complete encore presentations of key conferences and interviews on A-PAC, Australia’s Public Affairs Channel (Channel 648).

*All times listed in AEDT.