Opinion

In politics there can be a time when everything changes. For the Albanese Government that moment is now.

AARON PATRICK: Taxpayers may question why benefits often go to people with an insider-like knowledge of how the system works, rather than the truly desperate, needy or marginalised.

Tradition is wonderful. It is part of what makes sport feel sacred. But tradition should not become a gate that prevents sport from evolving, writes Georgie Parker.

It may be the Treasurer who has to pay the price for Anthony Albanese’s lies to the public on property tax reform.

PAUL MURRAY: If the Farrer by-election last weekend proved anything it is that the old Labor-Liberal domination of Australian politics is all but gone.

At the end of Budget week in Canberra something missing from Federal politics for some time has re-emerged. A contest.

BEN HARVEY: How will the gas reservation scheme work? No one seems to know.

The key is recognising and understanding people are unhappy with the policies of the major parties, they want their views to be heard and their concerns to be addressed.

There are no shortage of choices, but the Blues face a tough decision in who they go after to lead the team in its time of need.

MARK RILEY: Anthony Albanese told disenchanted voters he would be a prime minister who kept his promises. With that now exposed as a lie, what does he have to offer them?

Albanese’s Labor has demonstrated it has placed its naked pursuit of power above principle, honesty and accountability.

AARON PATRICK: Voters can forgive politicians for lying. But the taxation changes could trigger big falls in property prices that hurt millions.

Once again, the Labor Government is gaslighting us by claiming their investment tax reforms are motivated by ‘intergenerational fairness’.

JENI O’DOWD: Tuesday’s Federal Budget confirmed what many Australians already suspected: despite mounting pressure on housing, infrastructure and the cost of living, Labor has no intention of slowing migration.

With Jim Chalmers taking from cashed-up Baby Boomers and giving to Millennials and Gen Z, Ben Harvey points out why the Treasurer’s latest ‘fairer’ budget is another ‘fool me once, fool me twice’ moment.