Opinion

JENI O’DOWD: Going ‘no contact’ is the ultimate status symbol for the ultra-privileged.

DANE ELDRIDGE: He has had to carry the baggage of a very famous name, but he is now one of our most loved heroes and deservedly so.

AARON PATRICK: By pretending the Coalition split isn’t a political crisis, the Liberal Party Leader is insulting voters’ intelligence.

EDITORIAL: The nation needs a strong Opposition with a clear plan to hold Mr Albanese and his Government to account.

LISA STHALEKAR: They are the most successful Big Bash team in the country but moves are afoot that could put that in jeopardy.

EDITORIAL: We needed the spirit of Australia Day to kick-start a sense of unity in the wake of the terrible Bondi massacre.

AARON PATRICK: About 30 per cent of Australia’s population was born overseas. So why is the national day so popular with immigrants?

DIMITRI BURSHTEIN & PETER SWAN: Australia doesn’t need lectures from debt-laden, high-taxing, bureaucracy-loving Europe on how to run its economy.

GEORGIE PARKER: Tennis players have enough on their plates without being grilled in this fashion.

EDITORIAL: On Friday, as the Liberals and Nationals hangovers kicked in, Anthony Albanese was handed a gift of his own design.

JUSTIN LANGER: Never in any of our wildest dreams could we have imagined the heartbreaking twist of fate that was to befall our friend.

AARON PATRICK: Instead of being ‘humiliated’, Brooklyn Beckham should appreciate the fame, attention and freedom from any form of conventional employment his parents have afforded him.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump pounces on weakness, but retreats from strength. That’s why world leaders desperately need to stand up to Trump and push back on his tariffs.

EDITORIAL: We have a Prime Minister who is looking on in triumph as his political opponents tear each other part. Again.

A carefully crafted omnibus Bondi bill and an early return to Canberra for disgruntled Coalition MPs helped lay the groundwork for Albanese’s shrewd political victory.