Editorial

The Australian National University in Canberra had the longest-running Gaza solidarity encampment of 21 Australian universities in 2024. NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Anti-Semitism probe must be a line in the sand

EDITORIAL: Behind the walls of Australia’s elite universities, a disturbing crisis was unfolding that many say went unchecked.

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BHP workers strike in Port Hedland. Port Hedland Port. Jackson Flindell

Labor inaction on strikes may bring IR chaos

EDITORIAL: Union branches in the rest of the nation will be watching on.

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The Albanese Government needs to provide the legislative framework in which AI can be harnessed safely and fairly so big tech companies pay for what they use.

Rules needed for effective and fair use of AI revolution

The Albanese Government needs to provide the legislative framework in which AI can be harnessed safely and fairly so big tech companies pay for what they use.

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Anthony Albanese on the Bush Deep podcast with host Nikki Osborne.

Budget, interest rates, sex talk. Albo should be toast

Inside Mr Albanese’s HQ they must be thinking the game plan has worked. They might soon be able to again get back to blaming everything on matters ‘outside our control’.

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Jason Clare had warned that Australians should expect to hear ‘horrific evidence’ during the Royal Commission’s probe into Antisemitism on university campuses. He was immediately proven correct. 

The outrage on our university campuses

Jason Clare had warned that Australians should expect to hear ‘horrific evidence’ during the Royal Commission’s probe into Antisemitism on university campuses. He was immediately proven correct. 

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Telstra CEO Vicki Brady apologised for the company letting Australians down due to the outage. (Dean Sewell/AAP PHOTOS)

Crucial mobile networks must be reliable

From missed calls to emergency chaos, the Telstra outage has exposed just how dangerously dependent Australians have become on their phones.

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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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Anthony Albanese, Jim Chalmers The Nightly

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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Tony Burke, Anthony Albanese, ISIS brides The Nightly

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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