Opinion

AARON PATRICK For much of the past two years the Jewish community was accused of exaggerating anti-Semitism for sympathy. Sunday’s terrorist attack shows the warnings should have been listened to.

This was an attack not only on Australia’s Jewish community. This was an attack on Australia, on Australian values and Australia’s most cherished freedoms. This was terror.

JENI O’DOWD: I was at home, happily watching TV and drinking wine when I received a sickening text from my teenage daughter who’d gone to Bondi Beach for the day.

JUSTIN LANGER: I’ve always believed that true greatness isn’t just measured by what you achieve on the field, but by how you handle life’s moments when the scoreboard isn’t in your favour. 

BEN HARVEY: The travel payment system is generous for one avoidable reason. If we addressed it, the Anika Wells saga would be a thing of the past.

Being trapped with 500 people in a metal tube for 15 hours is a very particular inferno. So please, spare me the bare feet and shabby airport clothes.

EDITORIAL: Australians would really like their MPs to stop pissing their hard-earned taxpayer dollars away on idling Comcars and flash dinners.

EDITORIAL: It is politicians treating Australians with contempt that has led to this scandal blowing up in the first place. 

PERIN DAVEY: The ban is unworkable in practice and risks fostering a culture of defiance rather than one built on digital literacy, responsibility and resilience. 

MARK RILEY: The slipping and sliding from politicians trying to justify the gobsmacking amount they charge taxpayers to fly their families around the country and overseas has voters white hot with rage. 

MITCHELL JOHNSON: The Poms like to talk the talk, but slogans aren’t going to save them from what is fast shaping up as an embarrassing Ashes series defeat.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Though Republicans like being able to put a feminine face on their culture war crusades, some women in the party are realising there’s a difference between being useful and being respected.

After Australia’s richest person was denied the right to get to work by helicopter, Ben Harvey suggests ways to use the money saved from not having a helipad at the new headquarters of Hancock Prospecting.

EDITORIAL: The current system relies on MPs to employ some common sense and moral awareness. We can’t trust them to exercise either of these traits.

JENI O’DOWD: Anika Wells is the latest in a long line of politicians having a grand old time at your expense. It really shouldn’t be that way.