Opinion

Down 1-0, the Maroons coach has finally come to his senses and picked the superstar for the MCG blockbuster.

EDITORIAL: A flat economy, low growth and the spectre of a per capita recession is weighing heavily on the minds of hardworking Australians.

So dire is the Coalition’s standing that Labor MPs are starting to feel sorry for their opponents and are genuinely worried that One Nation will soon take their place as the formal opposition. 

GEORGIE PARKER: You’ll often hear people say that sport should stay in its own lane, that football fans ‘just want to watch football’. The King’s Birthday Big Freeze match is proof of what can happen.

AARON PATRICK: ‘It’s the economy, stupid,’ the prime minister said today, raising the question: why did it take him five budgets to try and fix it?

CAMERON MILNER: There’s a simple way for Anthony Albanese to counter Pauline Hanson’s rise. He won’t do it.

The Dolphins are proving with a lot of hard work and by saving your pennies expansion teams can challenge for the title faster than anyone expects.

Anthony Albanese has ruled out ‘drawing a distinction’ between citizenship status of Australians and as he ramps up attack on populist right-wing over controversial migration policies.

The 21-year-old’s club has issued a statement as the AFL is once again forced to step in.

EDITORIAL: It’s been a week shy of a month since the Budget was handed down (time flies when you’re having not much fun) and it’s still among the top political stories every day. And not in a good way.

Are we going to get a discount on our second hand AUKUS subs? Don’t count on it.

More resolutions are passed by the UN General Assembly against Israel than every other country combined, including some of the world’s worst human rights violators such as Russia, Iran and North Korea

A leading property economist is warning Labor’s negative gearing and capital gains tax changes will cause rents to soar without seeing more first homebuyers enter the housing market as investors lost interest.

LATIKA M BOURKE: The once-near unanimous consensus supporting AUKUS has gone. The PM needs to act quickly to make sure public opinion doesn’t deteriorate.

EDITORIAL: If it’s true that a rolling stone gathers no moss then it may follow that a snowballing budget picks up a lot of crap along the way.