Editorial

This was an attack not only on Australia’s Jewish community. This was an attack on Australia, on Australian values and Australia’s most cherished freedoms. This was terror.

EDITORIAL: Australians would really like their MPs to stop pissing their hard-earned taxpayer dollars away on idling Comcars and flash dinners.

EDITORIAL: It is politicians treating Australians with contempt that has led to this scandal blowing up in the first place. 

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.