Editorial

EDITORIAL: News of Trump and Xi’s ‘12-out-10’ meeting will come as a relief to Australia, which feared being caught in the middle between its closest security partner and its No. 1 trading partner. 

EDITORIAL: Instead of further rate cuts, at best we can expect rates to be forced into a holding pattern and at worst we are staring down the barrel of a series of hikes. 

EDITORIAL: World leaders are at his beck and call. Even royalty receive him with fawning pageantry. 

EDITORIAL: Barnaby Joyce has always done exactly as he pleased, damn the consequences for anyone else — even for those on his own side.

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.