Opinion

EDITORIAL: The nation needs a strong Opposition with a clear plan to hold Mr Albanese and his Government to account.

LISA STHALEKAR: They are the most successful Big Bash team in the country but moves are afoot that could put that in jeopardy.

EDITORIAL: We needed the spirit of Australia Day to kick-start a sense of unity in the wake of the terrible Bondi massacre.

AARON PATRICK: About 30 per cent of Australia’s population was born overseas. So why is the national day so popular with immigrants?

DIMITRI BURSHTEIN & PETER SWAN: Australia doesn’t need lectures from debt-laden, high-taxing, bureaucracy-loving Europe on how to run its economy.

GEORGIE PARKER: Tennis players have enough on their plates without being grilled in this fashion.

EDITORIAL: On Friday, as the Liberals and Nationals hangovers kicked in, Anthony Albanese was handed a gift of his own design.

JUSTIN LANGER: Never in any of our wildest dreams could we have imagined the heartbreaking twist of fate that was to befall our friend.

AARON PATRICK: Instead of being ‘humiliated’, Brooklyn Beckham should appreciate the fame, attention and freedom from any form of conventional employment his parents have afforded him.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump pounces on weakness, but retreats from strength. That’s why world leaders desperately need to stand up to Trump and push back on his tariffs.

EDITORIAL: We have a Prime Minister who is looking on in triumph as his political opponents tear each other part. Again.

A carefully crafted omnibus Bondi bill and an early return to Canberra for disgruntled Coalition MPs helped lay the groundwork for Albanese’s shrewd political victory.

MARK RILEY: David Littleproud has chosen to split with the Liberals to focus on fighting the threat from One Nation. But in doing so, he’s giving up his party’s biggest advantage.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Europe’s reprieve is well-earned. And while it is one that should never have even needed to be granted in the first place, there is a danger that Europeans will take the wrong lesson.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: It’s possible to achieve positive ends through Trumpian means, but the mechanism of that achievement requires constraints, and the ones we have now seem too weak for the purpose.