Editorial

EDITORIAL: With the soap opera that has been the status of the Liberal-National Coalition finally over, it’s time to return to regular programming. And it’s time for the PM to share his plan with us.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s report on national defence spending makes for sombre reading. But the Prime Minister’s refusal to take it seriously is even more concerning.

EDITORIAL: All Australians benefit from having a capable, thoughtful opposition which is able to hold the government to account. The onus is on the Coalition now to make themselves relevant again.

EDITORIAL: Australia is rightly committed to its net zero mission. But, as Anthony Albanese said on Monday: ‘it’s net zero, not zero’.

EDITORIAL: It will take more than money to achieve a truly reconciled Australia - one in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders can look forward to the same advantages as the rest of the population.

The cleverest part of Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ raid on superannuation balances over $3 million is that — as he keeps telling us — it’s a problem that appears to apply to so few of us. 

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.