Editorial

The Prime Minister desperately wants a rate cut so Australians start to forget the financial pain they’ve suffered across the past three years of his Government before he has to ask them to give him another go. 

Get on with it and call this election now

EDITORIAL: Albo desperately wants a rate cut so Australians start to forget the financial pain they’ve suffered across the past three years of his Government before he has to ask them to give him another go. 

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NSW Police have vowed to conduct a “thorough investigation” after two medicos told a Jewish social media influencer that they refuse to treat Israeli people at their hospital and would “kill them” instead.

Anti-Semitism disintegrates our social contract

EDITORIAL: Are the two NSW nurses caught boasting about killing Israeli patients under their care just a couple of rogue, blustering idiots? Or is their murderous rhetoric a symptom of a deeper sickness?

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Leaders have lambasted two NSW Health workers who were stood down after they were filmed making threatening remarks about Jewish people.

Vile anti-Semitic nurse video shows how far we have sunk

EDITORIAL: The term ‘anti-Semitism’ — now so frequently used in our national discourse — isn’t a strong enough word to capture the despicable boasts of two NSW nurses made on a TikTok video circulating online.

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Anthony Albanese’s talks with Donald Trump on tariffs will be a pivotal test for the Aussie PM.

EDITORIAL: Trump trade talks a pivotal test for Albanese

Australia has been dumped in the thick of Donald Trump’s trade war and the economic ramifications could be dire. 

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A caravan packed with explosives was found abandoned on a property in Sydney on January 19. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

PM’s obfuscation on caravan plot beggars belief

Repeatedly, Anthony Albanese has refused to divulged when and how he was told of the plot. The only conceivable reason for his continued obfuscation on this issue is that he was among the last to know. 

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EDITORIAL: Like it or not, we’re now living in a Trumpian world where the accepted rules no longer apply. That’s a fact Anthony Albanese needs to start taking both seriously and literally. 

Take Trump’s Gaza threat seriously, not literally

EDITORIAL: Like it or not, we’re now living in a Trumpian world where the accepted rules no longer apply. That’s a fact Anthony Albanese needs to start taking both seriously and literally. 

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Jo Haylen has fallen on her sword to end the scandal engulfing the NSW government.

Age of entitlement persists in our parliaments

EDITORIAL: No wonder Australian voters are totally disillusioned with their political system when our leaders are regularly taking the piss, thinking our money is theirs to spend. 

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Donald Trump, tariff, christmas

Tit-for-tat trade war will leave us all worse off

EDITORIAL: Despite halfhearted reassurances from Penny Wong and others that Australia is unlikely to become a direct target in Donald Trump’s self-destructive trade war, we won’t be immune to its fallout.

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Police say two 'periphery' arrests have been made around an anti-Semitic 'terror' plot in NSW.

Jewish Australians deserve honesty from cops

EDITORIAL: It is an unbelievable state of affairs if the Prime Minister was kept in the dark on an issue of vital national security.

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the detection of an explosive-laden caravan north of Sydney apparently part of an anti-Semitic terror plot, showed that such fears were “not always unfounded”. 

Chalmers’ slip betrays Government’s true feelings

EDITORIAL: The Government’s lethargic response has fuelled the terror crisis, emboldening anti-Semites to ratchet up their despicable campaign of hate and violence. 

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers wasted no time on Wednesday, telling Australians “the worst of the inflation challenge is now well and truly behind us”, while unemployment remains low. 

Inflation drop welcome but don’t celebrate yet

EDITORIAL: The feeling that better times are just over the horizon may cause some electors to look a little more kindly upon the struggling Government. But the Coalition has a far less rosy take.

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Retired Defence force chief Angus Campbell will serve as Australia’s next ambassador to Belgium, the European Union and NATO.

Angus Campbell’s plum posting a betrayal of diggers

EDITORIAL: For all of his failures, General Campbell has been rewarded with a plum diplomatic posting. It’s a kick in the guts to the many thousands of ADF personnel who served under his leadership. 

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EDITORIAL: Police and political leaders are taking the threat posed by neo-nazi groups seriously. We must act now to ensure we stay true to the promise made when the Auschwitz gates opened. Never again. 

Current neo-nazi threat is a stain on our nation

EDITORIAL: Police and political leaders are taking the threat posed by neo-nazi groups seriously. We must act now to ensure we stay true to the promise made when the Auschwitz gates opened. Never again. 

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The story of Australia is a remarkable one. 

Australia’s remarkable story is one to celebrate

EDITORIAL: Australia’s astonishing success as a prosperous, safe and inclusive society demands to be celebrated. 

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President Donald Trump signs executive orders at the White House.

Could Donald Trump’s war on woke spill over to Australia?

EDITORIAL: Donald Trump’s war on wokeness has ignited a moment of reckoning for diversity efforts which, unless advocates urgently correct course, could spell doom for the movement in Australia too.

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