Opinion

LISA STHALEKAR: The T20 game is constantly evolving and forcing teams to make tough calls. I would know as I was part of one last week.

EDITORIAL: Middle Australia have been unable to find what they seek from major parties. The latest Newspoll result could be just the beginning for One Nation.

Much is made of the ‘independence’ of the RBA from government. But just as a mafia boss does not need to issue written instructions to an underboss, nor does a treasurer need to spell things out to the board.

AARON PATRICK: Victoria Teplitsky believes the primary threat to Jewish Australians’ safety are extremist Muslim activists, who she wants banned.

One Nation’s climb is no surprise after the Bondi terror attack, but it represents new frontlines in Australian politics that will put Anthony Albanese to the ultimate test.

Maybe not you personally, but at least 50 per cent of the audience has to bear responsibility for the state of things. You can’t just blame Netflix for the dumbing down of screen culture.

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.