Opinion

GEORGIE PARKER: Saying some Aussie cricket team stars are out of shape is a bit rough given their recent success.

The match was immediately halted as players and officials rushed in to help.

Test cricket, like life, is a long game.If we prepare well, stay patient, respect the process, remain humble and work together, that’s where real success lives, says Justin Langer.

EDITORIAL: Anthony Albanese, who tried to squirm away from the responsibility of calling a royal commission, has no grounds to criticise pushback on his proposed hate speech laws.

MICHAELIA CASH: Australia Day should always be a day when a vast, diverse continent pauses to reflect on what binds us together.

AARON PATRICK: The Labor politicians were unfairly attacked for playing a risqué game about their Liberal counterparts which they thought was private.

EDITORIAL: Events in the four weeks since the atrocity at Bondi Beach have further wrenched us apart, leaving the country more divided than ever along religious, political and ideological lines.

ANDREW GREENE: Liberal insiders give Sussan Ley credit for harnessing the anger of the Jewish community and deploying it against the PM, but they fear it has done little to lift the party’s electoral fortunes. 

AARON PATRICK: Even South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas wasn’t powerful enough to shut down anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has been reinvited to speak at the Adelaide Writers’ Festival.

EDITORIAL: It’s been one month since the Bondi massacre exposed the worst of Australia. We’ve since been forced to reckon with it’s terrible cause.

JENI O’DOWD: It’s not normal to influence little kids on gender ideas before many even know who they are.

EDITORIAL: Whoever is next to step into the world of Rose Garden luncheons and Washington fairways will need a hefty dose of tact and charm. A single-digit handicap wouldn’t hurt either. 

University academics can call for the destruction of Israel and trivialise terrorism and keep their job. But criticising immigration is a sure-fire way to get sacked.

EDITORIAL: We must disrupt the terrible pattern of anti-Semitism by intervening to stamp out hate speech before it has a chance to distort into violence. 

AARON PATRICK: Facing a legal ban, the extremist Islamist group inadvertently revealed why it is a threat to social cohesion.