Editorial

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese must stay alive to the very real danger at hand as this is a fight the US and its allies must win.

Feelings of injustice will not be helped by the revelation that the number of senior officers in the ADF is continuing to soar.

The message must be getting through. Australians don’t like to be patronised or sneered at for their views.

For too long politics has been overriding sensible economic policy. And both sides of politics have been guilty.

Jewish accounts of anti-Semitism will surely tell a damning story about the forces that have been allowed to take hold and spread across this country.

Rather than busting a gut to create the impression it is hands-off about the whole affair the Albanese Government should have the guts to stand up and fully explain what is going on.

The British public’s revulsion at Andrew’s sordid lifestyle will mean little tolerance of any further royal misbehaviour.

It could be one of the great moments of modern history which delivers the Iranian people freedom from an Islamist regime which has brutally repressed them.

There are growing signs that the economic policy wagon is not rattling along smoothly as Labor forecast before its re-election, but is going off the rails.

How can we guarantee the safety of others if they come back to ‘make their beds’ in our suburbs?

While the new-look Opposition was looking forward and moving to address some of the real problems facing the nation, the Government was still looking backwards.

Good policies, good candidates, good communication, managing relations with the Nationals and plain old smart politics will be needed to claw back disgruntled conservatives.

Whether or not Mr Taylor is the solution is a matter for the Liberal party room to judge. But what must be avoided is another round of leadership instability after Friday.

Whatever the outcome of the looming Liberal leadership contest the Coalition will still have a mountain to climb.

EDITORIAL: Many protesters had gone to Sydney Town Hall on Monday looking for confrontation. They found it.