Political

OPINION: What happened in the Oval Office between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky was something that has never happened in the nearly 250-year history of this country.

CAMERON MILNER: There’s a time and place for negative attack ads and messages in every political campaign, but Labor’s desperate attack on Peter Dutton is doomed to fail.

Fatima Payman’s Iranian endorsement lets down millions of Muslim women who live under theocracies that arrest and sometimes murder women who chose not to wear the hijab.

While commentators watch the tumbling polls for Albo, Labor’s next leadership hopefuls are prowling the savannah, positioning for the inevitable ALP leadership challenge that’s to come.

BEN HARVEY: The RBA is supposed to be an economic Terminator, it can’t be bargained with and can’t be reasoned with.

HAYDEN NELSON: Locals may be toasting South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas as the man who pulled the steel town from the brink, but there is still a long hard road ahead for the Whyalla steelworks.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is winning the perception race as a stronger leader, but who has the coveted position of the political underdog ahead of the election? A leading body language expert explains.

ANDREW CARSWELL: With three words, Peter Dutton threw caution to the wind and revealed the Coalition’s bold election tactic - but I wouldn’t write him off just yet.

CAMERON MILNER: Albo can’t blame his polling free fall on misinformation and disinformation spread by political enemies when it’s the truth of his deeds that has voters wanting to see him gone.

ELLEN RANSLEY: Anthony Albanese left Parliament House on Thursday evening with a pep in his step, but on Friday the Prime Minister was swiftly served a steel wind turbine-sized reality check.

LATIKA M BOURKE: With one phone call, Donald Trump hijacked the agenda in Europe without leaving the Oval Office, angering European leaders who find themselves on the back foot in Russian-Ukraine negotiations

The video of two NSW nurses spouting anti-Semitic rhetoric raises a deeply uncomfortable question for Australia: why do some immigrants carry conflict from their ancestral homelands to their new nation?

ELLEN RANSLEY: The testimonies senators heard today were emotional, the anger was palpable. Our courageous veterans have been left to wonder if their sacrifice was even worth it.

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. 

CAMERON MILNER: Trump’s Gaza intervention has changed the conversation. It demands a serious response once the Trump-hating blowhards have run out of breath. And it’s all about the art of the deal.