Political

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.

ANDREW CARSWELL: Forget the wondrous trappings of government office for a minute, the power, the glory. Right now, for incumbents, life isn’t grand. It is limited, and spiralling to a quick end.

THE FRONT DORE: Here’s the speech Anthony Albanese should have delivered today, 12 months on from the October 7 atrocities — instead of the cliches, glib lines and bureaucratic words he actually delivered.

CAMERON MILNER: Anthony Albanese is chronically weak as a politician, repeatedly under-performs and constantly disappoints. And his weakness on Israel has given succour to extremists living in Australia.