Political

LATIKA M BOURKE: Albanese has become a symbol of the widespread art of grifting among the political class and, worse, exposed his personal shortcomings to the public.

BEN HARVEY: If the numbers go Trump’s way, the left needs to have a hard look at itself. Here’s a bit of free advice to the progressives.

MARK RILEY: I might be the only person in commercial aviation history to have requested a flight downgrade. Today, I’m so glad I did.

Building a sovereign missiles industry will be critical to protecting Australia in the regional ‘missile age’, the Government will say as it unveils plans to bolster domestic capabilities.

CAMERON MILNER: Anthony Albanese seems oblivious to how bad the Qantas seat flight upgrade scandal is. It’s Aloof Albo at best, but voters will see it more as Arrogant Albo.

THE FRONT DORE: Anthony Albanese has only months to stop the slow, seditious slide into minority government. But the Queensland election result has given him a gift. Here’s how he can use it.

PAUL MURRAY: Jim Chalmers is clearly a weak spot for the Albanese Government, with his protestations that the worst of inflation is passed almost laughable.

SIMON BIRMINGHAM: If fighting inflation were an Olympic sport then Anthony Albanese’s performance in Paris would have ranked alongside our inglorious national efforts in breakdancing.

CAMERON MILNER: There’s always a problem with governments picking winners with taxpayer dollars, but it’s downright electorally toxic if they also pick winners connected to mates. 

Broken promises, some foolhardy legislation and dwindling popularity have put Anthony Albanese and his Government in a downward spiral.

CAMERON MILNER: The PM’s $4.3 million clifftop mansion saga is an Albo-hemian Rhapsody of sorts — he’s just a poor boy, from a poor family!

ANDREW CARSWELL: Anthony Albanese could broker world peace and Australians would still gripe that he hasn’t done enough to address the rising cost of living. 

PAUL MURRAY: The Federal Energy Minister seems to think hydrogen is a magic elixir that will cure all our ills - he couldn’t be more wrong.

SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Australians who have ignored repeated calls to leave Lebanon should be forced to pay when they finally change their minds and beg the Federal Government to get them out of there.

MARK RILEY: Ministers say Anthony Albaneses’s Tourette’s jab shows he’s human. But prime ministers have a duty to be better than most of us.