Editorial

Hundreds of people have been wounded in Lebanon when pagers exploded in a suspected attack. (AP PHOTO)
Opinion
Editorial

Pager attacks demonstrate Israel’s brutal acumen

EDITORIAL: It was a brutal message, delivered directly to Hezbollah members and their supporters, via what they believed to be a secure and tamper-proof method of communication.

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The push from the Greens to include a so-called “climate trigger” in legislation to establish a Federal environmental protection agency is the JLo and Ben Affleck of Australian policy. 
Editorial
Editorial

Climate trigger dead, but it will still leave a mark

The climate trigger saga has given us a worrying glimpse into the dubious horse-trading that could occur after next year’s election should Labor form minority government with the support of the Greens.

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EDITORIAL: Big business bashing has become one of Canberra’s favourite pastimes, and it’s not just Labor and the profit-hating Greens who are getting in on it. But big business has found its voice again.
Opinion
Editorial

Big business must speak up for national interest

EDITORIAL: Big business bashing has become one of Canberra’s favourite pastimes, and it’s not just Labor and the profit-hating Greens who are getting in on it. But big business has found its voice again.

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EDITORIAL: After stripping medals from up to nine officers over allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan, all Defence Minister Richard Marles has done is tear open old wounds. 
Opinion
Editorial

Medals stoush shows wounds are far from healed

EDITORIAL: After stripping medals from up to nine officers over allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan, all Defence Minister Richard Marles has done is tear open old wounds. 

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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has made a colossal hash of the negotiations to get its promised environmental regulator up that it had no choice but to kick the can down the road a bit. 
Opinion

Plibersek’s Nature Positive ultimatum backfires

EDITORIAL: If you believe the Government’s reasoning for its Nature Positive legislation being yanked from the Senate notice paper, there’s a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in purchasing...

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Protesters confront police during an anti-war rally outside a weapons expo in Melbourne.
Opinion

Violent ‘anti-war’ protesters show rank hypocrisy

EDITORIAL: The actions of the 1500 or so cerebrally-challenged crusaders who brought chaos and disorder to Melbourne’s CBD served only to further alienate their movement from the Australian mainstream.

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Dr Chalmers’ list of priorities reads: 1. Avoid recession. 2. Daylight. 3. Do something about inflation, if we manage to find time.
Opinion
Editorial

Desperate Chalmers prolonging household pain

EDITORIAL: Jim Chalmers is desperate to avoid being the Treasurer who sent Australia into a recession. Things were so much easier when he got to be the surplus guy.

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EDITORIAL: The three-year royal commission into defence and veteran suicide has ripped open festering wounds and revealed a darkness within Australia’s most revered institution.
Editorial
Editorial

Defence’s day of reckoning must not be ignored

EDITORIAL: The three-year royal commission into defence and veteran suicide has ripped open festering wounds and revealed a darkness within Australia’s most revered institution.

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Former treasurer Wayne Swan has joined in the attack on the RBA.
Opinion
Hayley Sorensen

Labor’s RBA pile-on betrays economic incompetence

EDITORIAL: If the goal of this coordinated smash-up is to intimidate Michele Bullock into bringing down interest rates early, Wayne Swan and Jim Chalmers are going to be disappointed. 

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The prime minister paid tribute to Bill Shorten for his 'energy, enthusiasm, ideas and ambition'.
Editorial
Editorial

Failures won’t erase Bill Shorten’s significant legacy

EDITORIAL: As a political assassin, Bill Shorten did not miss. But when his own chance finally came around, he wasted his shot.

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Is Mark Zuckerberg and Meta on a collision course with the open-source community over his company’s new AI models?
opinion
Opinion
Hayley Sorensen

Tech companies must do more to keep kids safe

EDITORIAL: Meta says its solution isn’t a blame-shifting exercise but a way to create uniform standards to help keep children out of harm’s way. It’s also an admission that its apps aren’t safe for kids. 

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Every time ASIO boss Mike Burgess opens his, he creates more problems for the Government.
Opinion
Editorial

Gaza visa debacle is back to bite Prime Minister

EDITORIAL: Every time ASIO boss Mike Burgess opens his mouth, he creates more problems for the Government. 

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Instead of actually working at finding some solutions that would ease the cost-of-living pressures, Labor is preoccupied with finding someone else to blame, or providing sugar-hit “relief measures”.
opinion
Opinion
Editorial

Voters want cost-of-living solutions, not spin

EDITORIAL: Instead of actually working at finding some solutions that would ease the cost-of-living pressures, Labor is preoccupied with finding someone else to blame, or providing sugar-hit ‘relief measures’.

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Kamala Harris in her first major TV interview as the Democratic presidential nominee.
Editorial

Wilfully boring Kamala Harris remains policy enigma

EDITORIAL: After watching her much-hyped prime-time interview, it’s not clear if even Kamala Harris herself knows what kind of president she wants to be.

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Resources Minister Madeleine King has sided with the unions against BHP.
Editorial

King’s attack on BHP a worrying sign for mining industry

To borrow a phrase from Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison, it’s the s.......t time for the nation to have a Resources Minister anything other than 100 per cent committed to keeping the industry strong. 

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