Editorial

Strikes at BHP’s Port Hedland operations are shaping up to be the most severe industrial action taken in WA’s mining industry in a generation.

Strike at crucial export hub a sign of trouble

EDITORIAL: Unions have been increasingly emboldened by the Albanese Government’s changes to industrial relations laws. The outcome of that is now clear. 

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By test-firing a nuclear-capable missile into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, China has stoked new fears about its growing aggressiveness.

Australia must make calm and clear response to China missile

EDITORIAL: Australia needs to remain calm and clear and act in accordance with our national interests.

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Where does this all end? What’s next? Does Mr Albanese go on and play truth or dare?

Albo’s sex quiz raises questions about modern politics

EDITORIAL: Where does this all end? What’s next? Does Mr Albanese go on and play truth or dare?

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Royal commissioner Virginia Bell must be given every resource and opportunity to provide a report which leaves no stone unturned.

Hearings prove anti-Semitism probe is needed

EDITORIAL: Royal commissioner Virginia Bell must be given every resource and opportunity to provide a report which leaves no stone unturned.

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Budget victory lap by Labor is pure Canberra

Inside the Canberra bubble, the Government is celebrating a Budget many Australians are still struggling to make sense of.

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Albanese needs to fix hole in security laws

EDITORIAL: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is fond of saying the broken-promises Budget was necessary to do what’s right.

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Four ISIS brides are facing charges relating to their time in the region after travelling to join the blood-soaked ISIS campaign.

ISIS brides raise wider questions about security

EDITORIAL: Ongoing management of those who have returned from the Middle East will place a huge drain on security agencies and taxpayers. There are also wider issues at play and questions that need answers.

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Headline inflation moderated in May as the effects of the Federal Government’s fuel tax relief artificially reduced consumer prices.

Stubborn inflation feeds fear of more rates pain to come

EDITORIAL: Inflation numbers sit at the very heart of so much of our lives, and the latest figures brought little comfort.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese  during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.

Tax deal shows Labor’s need for the Greens

The Albanese Government’s Budget has been in trouble from the moment it was handed down.

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Both sides of the House are struggling to come to grips with Pauline Hanson’s rise. But they should know it is tied closely to their failures.

Major parties have themselves to blame for Hanson’s rise

EDITORIAL: Both sides of the House are struggling to come to grips with Pauline Hanson’s rise. But they should know it is tied closely to their failures.

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If Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his sidekick Jim Chalmers think the Budget backflip announced on Thursday does the job they need to think again.

Backflip shows how deeply flawed shocker of Budget really is

EDITORIAL: After weeks of deflecting, denying and defending by the Albanese Government, Thursday’s backflip is a monumental confession that they got it wrong all along.

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Pauline Hanson was for years shunned, disparaged and patronised, now she’s on the rise.

Once shunned, Hanson shows why One Nation has surged

EDITORIAL: When historians write about the rapid rise of One Nation one element of their analysis will be clear

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 John Healey has resigned as UK Defence Secretary.

UK Minister’s bombshell resignation casts shadow on AUKUS

EDITORIAL: UK Defence Secretary John Healey’s resignation was of the type we don’t see much these days — one motivated by principle.  

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Will CGT discounts be departing in Treasurer Chalmers’ Budget?

Chalmers on the attack as Hanson shows soft side

EDITORIAL: All the Budget criticism appears to have lit a fire under the man who would be Prime Minister, springing as he has out of the gates knowing he has some serious ground to make up.

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AFL legend and motor neurone disease warrior Neale Daniher has received a State funeral at the MCG.

With Daniher gone, it’s up to us to play on against MND

EDITORIAL: There was no better location to send off Neale Daniher than the MCG, the scene of so many of his greatest moments, first as a footballer, then as a coach and finally as a campaigner. 

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Australians are facing some of the bleakest consumer sentiment in decades, leaving households increasingly pessimistic about what comes next.

Ailing economy gives Aussies little to smile about

EDITORIAL: Australians are facing some of the bleakest consumer sentiment in decades, leaving households increasingly pessimistic about what comes next.

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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has capitalised on “unease and anger” in the electorate, becoming the most popular political party in the nation.

Pivot to One Nation shows a hunger for change

EDITORIAL: A flat economy, low growth and the spectre of a per capita recession is weighing heavily on the minds of hardworking Australians.

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It’s been a week shy of a month since the Budget was handed down and it’s still among the top political stories every day. Pictured: Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanese.

That’s right. We are still talking about the budget

EDITORIAL: It’s been a week shy of a month since the Budget was handed down (time flies when you’re having not much fun) and it’s still among the top political stories every day. And not in a good way.

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