Opinion

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.

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?