Editorial

EDITORIAL: The current system relies on MPs to employ some common sense and moral awareness. We can’t trust them to exercise either of these traits.

EDITORIAL: Economists had expected the RBA to keep rates on hold, but the bank’s tone of extreme caution will rattle some. This was the RBA sounding the alarm.

EDITORIAL: The ban buys us time to shield children from harmful content. But the real work will be educating them to become social media literate. 

EDITORIAL: Amid China’s menacing maritime behaviour it is heartening to hear that AUKUS is full steam ahead.

EDITORIAL: Not only is another rate cut in the near future off the cards, suddenly we are looking at a rate rise.

EDITORIAL: It has fallen to Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Michele Bullock, in her best governor language, to point out what is really going on.

EDITORIAL: We have never lived in an era in which the political processes are viewed with so much distrust.

EDITORIAL: Historically our Defence programs have been too often beset by costly delays. We need this new structure to get up and running quickly so it can get down to work.

EDITORIAL: The Prime Minister can’t kick back while the cost-of-living crisis roars back to life.

EDITORIAL: The move by Labor to subject gas projects to more onerous assessment processes is entirely at odds with Anthony Albanese’s previously stated strong support for the industry.

EDITORIAL: The public service’s continued bloat is strangling private sector growth. Will the Albanese Government have the guts to make the cuts necessary to rein it in? 

EDITORIAL: The constant chopping and changing of regulations must end and give way to a system that is workable for both conservationists and developers.

EDITORIAL: It was bewilderingly bad, brainless cricket. The good news is, it’s over for now.

EDITORIAL: The rise of Kellie Sloane only serves to highlight the grim state of things in Canberra.

EDITORIAL: Test cricket is a strange anachronism in today’s attention deficit-riven society. Australians forgo their phones in favour the hypnotic thwack of red leather against English willow.