Editorial

EDITORIAL: The PM’s packed travel schedule will open him up to inevitable criticism for taking his eye off domestic matters. But showing up is important

EDITORIAL: He stepped off his RAAF jet at Sydney Airport clad in a shirt from English postpunks Joy Division. This was Anthony Albanese wearing what he wanted to wear. Because who is going to stop him? 

EDITORIAL: The Albanese Government wants to introduce yet more layers of bureaucracy and red tape that our mining industry does not need.

EDITORIAL: By sitting back, letting US President Donald Trump take the lead and having a laugh at Kevin Rudd’s expense, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese played his role perfectly. 

EDITORIAL: It’s in the national interest that this meeting goes well, but coming off as toadying would be a disaster for Mr Albanese’s personal popularity at home.

EDITORIAL: When our PM moved to recognise Palestine he had no roadmap to guide the transition of power to a legitimate authority.  All he had was a plan to humiliate our longstanding ally in Israel.

EDITORIAL: The tension will further complicate Anthony Albanese’s mission to cosy up to Donald Trump at the pair’s long-awaited White House meeting next week. 

EDITORIAL: It’s unlikely we will be able to birth our way out of this problem without radical — and likely unwelcome — cultural change. 

EDITORIAL: That Iran might accept Donald Trump’s ‘hand of friendship’ may be wishful thinking, but at the end of the war it is now time for that sort of optimism.

EDITORIAL: Chalmers has handled what could’ve been a crippling ignominy with typical composure. His spin – that this was a mutual decision rather than a concession – helps save some face. 

EDITORIAL: The precarious peace in Gaza has taken enormous effort and strength of will to achieve. Maintaining it will be even harder. 

EDITORIAL: He wants to be lauded as the peacemaker president, the man who succeeded where his rivals did not. He might have just done it. 

EDITORIAL: Can we be certain these women and their children aren’t still loyal to a doctrine which is anathema to our way of life? These are the questions that Government has so far failed to answer. 

EDITORIAL: Two years after Hamas militants penetrated the Israeli border on a mission to cause as much death and pain as possible, the tragedy of October 7 continues. 

EDITORIAL: The corrosive impacts of Hamas’ campaign of violence and hatred continue to play out here in Australia.