Editorial

Murray Watt is the new Environment Minister.

Watt must end the dithering and get the job done

EDITORIAL: Election: won. New Cabinet: sworn in. The next thing on Anthony Albanese’s to-do list must be to finally get Woodside’s North West Shelf gas extension approved. 

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Ms Ley is the first moderate to lead the Liberals since the Malcolm Turnbull experiment ended in tears in 2018.

Forget she’s a woman; Libs have chosen a moderate

EDITORIAL: The Coalition faces a likely six years in opposition, it seems improbable that Ms Ley will ever be PM. But her moment is now, and the party’s future success depends on her getting it right.

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Science minister Ed Husic was booted from the Cabinet.

Husic’s faction whinge the height of hypocrisy

EDITORIAL: Ed Husic is not doing OK. He skipped Labor’s first caucus meeting. Then on Sunday he lashed out at Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, calling the Labor Right heavy a ‘factional assassin’.

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Former Greens leader Adam Bandt blamed everyone but himself for his party’s terrible performance at the election.

Voters see through delusional, aggressive greens

EDITORIAL: Not once did Adam Bandt accept so much as a skerrick of responsibility for the result which has seen the party he led for five years lose three quarters of its Lower House seats.

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Nine boss Catherine West chose not to respond to questions from 7NEWS.

Nine should come clean on $700k hush money payment

EDITORIAL: It’s time for Nine chair Catherine West to come clean on the $700,000 hush money the network paid a witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith case.

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The reality of course was Peter Dutton’s Coalition was never any real chance of winning back enough seats at this election to form a government.

Lib light is off; who can find switch in the dark

EDITORIAL: The Liberals have been left a rabble. The result has exposed the folly of the party for not properly examining the reasons why it lost the 2022 election. It glanced inward and carried on.

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Anthony Albanese is meeting with his top generals to decide on a timeline for his new ministry.

Danger for Albanese in believing his own PR

EDITORIAL: It would be a mistake for Anthony Albanese to interpret his win as a complete endorsement by Australians of his Government to date.

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EDITORIAL: The Opposition have been disappointing during this campaign, but when we vote on Saturday it’s a judgment on the past three years of compounding failure.

Judgment day is time to look past campaign debacle 

EDITORIAL: The Opposition have been disappointing during this campaign, but when we vote on Saturday it’s a judgment on the past three years of compounding failure.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the campaign trail in New South Wales.

Albanese must be punished for a poor three years

The Opposition have been disappointing during this campaign, but when we vote on Saturday it’s a judgment on the past three years of compounding failure.

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Could the failed Voice vote ultimately cost Anthony Albanese his prime ministership?

Let’s not pretend, Labor will never let the Voice go

EDITORIAL: While Anthony Albanese appears more than happy to abandon his passion for the Voice, truth-telling and treaty in order to stay in the Lodge, that’s not how many of his mates in the Labor Party think.

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EDITORIAL: Most politicians lie, at least a little. Unfortunately it has become an accepted part of our political landscape. But Albanese has taken that bad habit and turned it into a full blown addiction. 

Albanese makes an art form of the political porky

EDITORIAL: Most politicians lie, at least a little. Unfortunately it has become an accepted part of our political landscape. But Albanese has taken that bad habit and turned it into a full blown addiction. 

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is scrambling to put distance between himself and Mr Trump.
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Why the Canadian poll result spells trouble for Dutton

EDITORIAL: Canada’s Liberal Party has one man to thank for the election win no one thought was possible just a few months ago. And, no, it’s not Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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All governments indulge in a bit of off-budget spending but the Albanese Government has taken it to new heights.

Labor’s economic mixed messaging defies logic

EDITORIAL: All governments indulge in a bit of off-budget spending but the Albanese Government has taken it to new heights.

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2024 Anzac Day Dawn Service , held at the State War Memorial in Kings Park, Perth.

‘Anzac spirit’ is as relevant and alive as ever

EDITORIAL: This Anzac Day, push past the platitudes and allow the Anzac spirit to rise, as Charles Bean predicted it would, our nation’s possession forever.

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As much as the Prime Minister doesn’t want to acknowledge it, China is ramping up its activities — and aggression — in our region. 

‘She’ll be right’ attitude won’t cut it in defence policy

EDITORIAL: We appear to be approaching a tipping point in relation to our national security and it’s clear Australia’s decades-old ‘she’ll be right’ attitude towards defence won’t cut it anymore. 

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