Opinion

JUSTIN LANGER: As the world appears to being getting more divided there is one fractious relationship that always tests our patience - the one with the English!

KIERSTEN DUKE: If you finish top of the tree or are happy with your lot in life, it should be nobody’s business who you put out on the field.

PAUL MURRAY: Chris Bowen, the Don Quixote of Canberra, has urged a faster rollout of renewables projects without conceding the instruments he depends on to achieve that end are inadequate.

EDITORIAL: We should not play into the hands of those who seek to dismantle the system.

RICHO’S TOP 10: There are four blockbusters coming our way starting tonight, but the side that prevails in this match will go all the way.

JANE HUME: Couples should be allowed to share their superannuation savings, a simple change that could help protect women when their partners die.

AARON PATRICK: Senator Jacinta Price’s proposal to ban burning the flag was met by calls to replace the flag altogether. That would be a mistake.

MITCHELL JOHNSON: Don’t believe the talk coming out of the Australian camp — the Poms will be licking their lips at the prospect of a wounded Aussie skipper limping into the series, if at all.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: China and America don’t know it yet, but the artificial intelligence revolution is going to drive them closer together, not farther apart.

MARK RILEY: The Albanese Government might have a record majority in the House of Representatives, but the Senate can still bite it where it hurts. 

It was perhaps the biggest gathering of authoritarian leaders the world has ever seen

EDITORIAL: Anthony Albanese should have condemned Bob Carr and Dan Andrews. That he failed to do so raises new concerns.

JENI O’DOWD: ‘I never thought I’d say this, but for the first time in my life, I feel ashamed to be Australian’.

BEN MCCLELLAN: The disgraced star is being made to pay for his crimes, but at what cost and to what end?

EDITORIAL: The weekend’s protests proved that unease has fermented into something more toxic.