Political

Paul Murray: Anyone who has watched Chris Bowen’s career over the past 20 years could hardly say that diplomacy is his strong suit. He’s graceless.

AARON PATRICK: Labor’s deal to create a new environmental agency will have the unfortunate consequence of damaging an Australian success story.

CAMERON MILNER: The Liberal Party thought outside the box to dump net zero. Now it needs to do the same with its leadership and bring back Josh Frydenberg.

Jim Chalmers’ ‘tweaks’ to his plan to wind back superannuation tax breaks will punch a multibillion-dollar black hole in the Budget, as economists say the Government will have to find the revenue elsewhere.

Modernising Australia’s paper-based and fax-reliant health system is essential to cut costs, lift productivity and meet the demands of an ageing population, a new report has found. 

Labor has been accused of putting politics before climate action by seizing on Coalition divisions over Barnaby Joyce’s net zero repeal bill.

EDITORIAL: Anthony Albanese and his cadre of left-wing world leaders think they can simply wish this utopia into existence. They can’t.

MICHAELIA CASH: Labor’s statehood push will legitimise Hamas and further entrench their power in Palestine.

AARON PATRICK: The emissions target is not just about climate change policy. It is a fight over the Coalition’s ideological path, internal power and its place in society. 

DVIR ABRAMOVICH: When a Glastonbury act led a chant of ‘Death to the IDF,’ it wasn’t protest — it was hatred, broadcast into homes. Now we must ask: where is the line?

ANDREW CARSWELL: Anthony Albanese has found himself on the wrong side of a telling political position, facing a Liberal leader who has struck a tone of contrast with an increasingly agitated PM.

ANDREW CARSWELL: The Albanese Government remains profoundly underwhelming on the world stage, diminishing Australia’s standing with every utterance.

A premier has defended his government intervening to ‘clean up’ a state-run forensic testing lab after the emergence of contamination issues.

AARON PATRICK: The treasurer can prove his critics wrong and use a meeting of experts to make some tough-but-worthy decisions, rather than just raising taxes.