Opinion

RBA governor Michele Bullock and her board have decided to lift the cash rate. (Aap/AAP PHOTOS)

Rates pain has left Australians looking for answers

There remains a disturbing lack of clarity about where the Government is taking this country.

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Tony Burke MP in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra.

Burke throws cutting insult towards the ‘no-alition’

ANDREW GREENE: Labor was taking no prisoners as it went on the attack with the Liberals and Nationals split in parliament.

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Steve Smith should be playing in the T20 World Cup.

Aussies may regret this fateful World Cup mistake

OPINION: After the disaster in Pakistan this was the smart call the selectors needed to make - and they didn’t.

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Jim Chalmers won't do it, so RBA Governor Michele Bullock is wrestling the economy to the ground.

The Reserve Bank is determined to kill an economic upturn

AARON PATRICK: Michele Bullock described Tuesday’s interest rate hike in bloodless central-banker speak - but it will cost the economy roughly $3 billion to $6 billion.

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Louise Adler is a member of the Jewish Council of Australia’s advisory committee and a former director of the Adelaide Writers’ Festival.

Why the ‘Jewish Council of Australia’ is anything but

OPINON: Statements and opinion pieces from the Jewish Council of Australia have been circulating for months in authoritative fashion as though this body speaks for Australian Jews. It does not.

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The Coalition, and in particular, the Liberals appear to be staring into the abyss in Canberra this week.

Are the Liberals facing their do and die moment?

LATIKA M BOURKE: The Opposition should have had the PM on the ropes after the Bondi massacre. Instead they’ve fully imploded and are now being outpolled by One Nation.

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It seemed like it was all he could do to restrain himself from punching the air in triumph before he made multiple jabs at his opponents’ leadership and Coalition confusion.

Albo in wonderland amid Coalition’s crazy capers

EDITORIAL: It seemed like it was all he could do to restrain himself from punching the air in triumph before he made multiple jabs at his opponents’ leadership and Coalition confusion.

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Novak Djokovic finally has found love in Australia (from the crowd).

Djokovic’s sad admission after Australian Open defeat

GEORGIE PARKER: He is arguably the best player to grace a court, so it was heartbreaking to see him reveal this detail.

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Liberal MPs look evenly split between two men and a woman.

Sussan Ley’s leadership woes are nothing to do with gender

Watching the Liberal Party’s leadership saga is excruciating. It’s like witnessing a slow death: drawn-out, painful and entirely avoidable.

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It is now six months since Anthony Albanese announced his government would recognise Palestine.

PM’s dopey contributions merely fuel anti-Jewish sentiment

PAUL MURRAY: Since Albanese announced his government would recognise Palestine, he has made no progress in advancing the ersatz conditions he put on the recognition of a sovereign state that doesn’t even exist.

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Adam Voges is the perfect example of leadership succession.

Adam Voges is the perfect example of leadership succession

JUSTIN LANGER: In Voges, I see a success story that hasn’t been loud or flashy. It has been methodical, modern and deeply effective.

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Labor is shaping up for a divisive stoush over the visit to Australia of Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

PM should ensure Labor welcomes Israel’s President

EDITORIAL: Labor is shaping up for a divisive stoush over the visit to Australia of Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

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It’s one of the most abhorrent crimes to exist. But sentences for paedophile teachers often don’t reflect that reality.

Why sex offender teacher might be out sooner than you think

BEN HARVEY: It’s one of the most abhorrent crimes to exist. But sentences for paedophile teachers often don’t reflect that reality.

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Federal law enforcement agents detain a motorist from a vehicle during a raid in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. Minnesota officials are suing over the unprecedented surge of US immigration authorities in the state, taking the Trump administration to court days after a federal agent shot and killed a Minneapolis woman. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Victor J. Blue

ICE’s impunity is a formula for more violence

Is America’s President building his own paramilitary militia?

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An important new study suggests that there’s a highly effective way to overcome one of the most intractable problems in 21st-century America — intergenerational poverty.

How to bring back the American dream

THE NEW YORK TIMES: An important new study suggests that there’s a highly effective way to overcome one of the most intractable problems in 21st-century America — intergenerational poverty.

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