Opinion

MITCHELL JOHNSON: Alex Volkanovski and Rory McIlroy play very different sports but they are not as different as you would think.

DANE ELDRIDGE: The Panthers only have themselves to blame for their eventual demise. They were too good, for too long but it’s not a complete loss for the NRL.

In this show, Ben Harvey explains how Donald Trump broke economics, with his trade war upending the finance world’s most fundamental doctrine and booby-trapping Australia’s property market.

RICHO’S TOP 10: The Easter round gets of to a ripping start with the 2023 grand final rematch tonight but this time Brisbane have all the running.

EDITORIAL: The Easter break — which will be followed next week by another long weekend for Anzac Day — can’t come soon enough for Peter Dutton. 

MARK RILEY: Peter Dutton’s election pitch is still off-key and he is running out of time to convince voters he deserves the top job.

KATE EMERY: Thinking about a trip to New York to see the Statue of Liberty? Have you considered visiting France’s smaller replica on Île aux Cygnes, an artificial island in the Seine, instead?

JENI O’DOWD: Peter Dutton began his campaign so devoid of vision that it made Anthony Albanese’s costly promises look appealing. Now that’s changed, but he still has an enormous amount of work to do.

EDITORIAL: For decades, Australia’s defence strategy has boiled down to ‘ask the US for help if we need it’. The result is an Australia woefully unprepared to defend itself. That has to change.

AARON PATRICK: After warning for years climate change threatened the planet, Labor ministers now present their climate policies as inflation-busters.

KIERSTEN DUKE: They are paid the big bucks to have an opinion and take us inside the game they once dominated, but it’s not always smooth sailing.

ANDREW CARSWELL: It may be the thinnest of silver linings, but for all the smirks and chest-beating in Camp Albanese, Labor is failing to capitalise on the Coalition’s bleeding primary vote.

EDITORIAL: Not since the heady days of Kevin07 have we seen a prime ministerial candidate so puffed up and confident during an election campaign. And doesn’t he love it. 

CAMERON MILNER: We’re at half-time in this election campaign. The teams are back on the field and the crowd are back in their seats. It’s neck-and-neck and anybody could win from here.

The 17-year-old young gun captures the feeling of hope better than any other Australian individual athlete for some time. It is not what he will do — it is what he might do.