Editorial

Real relief depends on the smoke clearing on the Middle East conflict and a lasting resolution.

For Australia, which relies completely on the US security blanket, the stakes could not go any higher.

Even if all goes well over the next two weeks and the ceasefire turns into the end of the war, it will be some time before oil supplies return to sufficient levels to take some of the pressure off.

Mr Roberts-Smith was judged to be a hero for his bravery during combat. Authorities are now asking Aussies to judge the decorated soldier as a murderer for his activities in that very same field of combat.

We are heading into a fuel supply emergency and price shock that will ripple through every part of the economy. Decisive and clear steps are needed.

Just as in the COVID days, it is already clear States are prepared to go their own way.

The fuel crisis has thrown the spotlight on how the nation has found itself in this position and what can be done to protect against a repeat in the future.

The new measures announced by the Albanese Government are part of a sensible approach that is welcome in an environment of uncertainty.

The daily information overload around the impact of the war is obscuring the need for thoughtful long-term planning.

The nation needs to hear very clearly where we stand as oil and diesel anxieties worsen. Our leaders must step up.

This is a disastrous time to allow unions to apply a handbrake in the engine room of the national economy. The Albanese Government has built the union handbrake into the system. It must act to release it.

The red lights are flashing about the need to rein in the unions. Unless Jim Chalmers pays heed to the warnings, his Budget speech will be an other exercise in missed opportunity.

The way out of this crisis depends significantly on Donald Trump and the leaders of Iran. But what ever happens from here, we are in for a rough time.

The uncertainty around so much of modern life has created a ready-made audience for the messages delivered by One Nation.

If you didn’t spend $5 on sausages but spent it on something else instead you have still spent $5. That ain’t a saving.