Opinion

JENI O’DOWD: If you really want to start an argument at the pub, forget Trump or house prices. Bring up gender identity and women-only spaces.

There’s speculation issues other than form played a role in what could be Billy Slater’s most important Origin coaching decision.

With Anthony Albanese already on the backfoot over GST, Ben Harvey explains why the Federal Government’s new gas proposal is certain to fire up debate with the PM in WA trying to sell what nobody’s buying.

Either the Government or Parliament is going to have to unpick the document and fix it

AARON PATRICK: No Government official, military veteran or investigative journalist has been able to explain where the commanders were when prisoners were allegedly executed in Afghanistan.

The best player in the game has done it all - except this one thing - which looms large over his legacy.

Australia already has laws governing discrimination, consumer protection, privacy, workplace safety and unfair dismissal. The task is ensuring those laws remain effective when AI becomes the instrument.

Ben Harvey explains how trust funds REALLY work and why Labor’s changes are less about fairness and more about the ripple effect of broken promises with Albo’s budget backflips failing to stick the landing.

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.