Opinion

The US president seems to have his own set of deflector shields: his Cabinet secretaries and other top officials. They’ve been battered and are starting to malfunction.

Last week I stepped off the plane and within minutes, I was reminded why India is unlike anywhere else on earth. There is no sign of that changing in cricket, business and global politics.

Feelings of injustice will not be helped by the revelation that the number of senior officers in the ADF is continuing to soar.

Pining for the good old days when we could disagree on political matters calmly and respectfully? Yeah, nah. That never happened.

The message must be getting through. Australians don’t like to be patronised or sneered at for their views.

The league does not subscribe to the notion that if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, so here we are heading into another confusing start to the season.

MARK RILEY: Carr’s comedy might be politically incorrect, but there’s more than a sliver of truth in his assertion that the tax system is unfair.

Ben Harvey outlines the bomb scare which led to Anthony Albanese being evacuated from The Lodge, and looks back at historical threats to PMs including John Howard, who was forced to wear a bullet proof vest.

For too long politics has been overriding sensible economic policy. And both sides of politics have been guilty.

PAUL RUBENSTEIN: Right wing anti-Semitism is loud, crude, and easy to identify. More insidious is the left wing variety, which cloaks itself in moral legitimacy, authorising the mainstream to join in.

JENI O’DOWD: Complaining about Emerald Fennel’s ‘offensive’ adaptation of the Emily Brontë classic has become a competitive sport.

Jewish accounts of anti-Semitism will surely tell a damning story about the forces that have been allowed to take hold and spread across this country.

For a club that prides itself as not being about egos, this could be the beginning of the end of its famous team first culture.

It seemed like a good idea at the time, but the team may be ruing this call as it fights to survive in the blockbuster women’s series.

Rather than busting a gut to create the impression it is hands-off about the whole affair the Albanese Government should have the guts to stand up and fully explain what is going on.