Editorial

EDITORIAL: The Nationals’ petulance has served only to hand more power to Mr Albanese and threatens to lengthen the time that will be spent by both former partners in the wilderness.

EDITORIAL: Our policy makers must turn their attention to the other problem which has been simmering away in the background while we were all distracted by the inferno of inflation — our productivity crisis.

EDITORIAL: Election: won. New Cabinet: sworn in. The next thing on Anthony Albanese’s to-do list must be to finally get Woodside’s North West Shelf gas extension approved. 

EDITORIAL: The Coalition faces a likely six years in opposition, it seems improbable that Ms Ley will ever be PM. But her moment is now, and the party’s future success depends on her getting it right.

EDITORIAL: Ed Husic is not doing OK. He skipped Labor’s first caucus meeting. Then on Sunday he lashed out at Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, calling the Labor Right heavy a ‘factional assassin’.

EDITORIAL: Not once did Adam Bandt accept so much as a skerrick of responsibility for the result which has seen the party he led for five years lose three quarters of its Lower House seats.

EDITORIAL: It’s time for Nine chair Catherine West to come clean on the $700,000 hush money the network paid a witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith case.

EDITORIAL: The Liberals have been left a rabble. The result has exposed the folly of the party for not properly examining the reasons why it lost the 2022 election. It glanced inward and carried on.

EDITORIAL: It would be a mistake for Anthony Albanese to interpret his win as a complete endorsement by Australians of his Government to date.

EDITORIAL: The Opposition have been disappointing during this campaign, but when we vote on Saturday it’s a judgment on the past three years of compounding failure.

The Opposition have been disappointing during this campaign, but when we vote on Saturday it’s a judgment on the past three years of compounding failure.

EDITORIAL: While Anthony Albanese appears more than happy to abandon his passion for the Voice, truth-telling and treaty in order to stay in the Lodge, that’s not how many of his mates in the Labor Party think.

EDITORIAL: Most politicians lie, at least a little. Unfortunately it has become an accepted part of our political landscape. But Albanese has taken that bad habit and turned it into a full blown addiction. 

EDITORIAL: Canada’s Liberal Party has one man to thank for the election win no one thought was possible just a few months ago. And, no, it’s not Prime Minister Mark Carney.

EDITORIAL: All governments indulge in a bit of off-budget spending but the Albanese Government has taken it to new heights.