Opinion

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

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

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

Is America’s President building his own paramilitary militia?

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.

EDITORIAL: Treasurer Jim Chalmers will be the person pulling the economic levers upon which so much rests.

MARK RILEY: Katie Allen’s experience showed that although much of the noise in politics rises from the angry edges, there is only one way elections are won.

MITCHELL JOHNSON: The east coast heavyweights would have performed better in the BBL final if they had not been fixated on this petty issue.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: If Alex Pretti’s death is a tragedy, what do Americans say or do in the face of the murder of thousands of Iranians?

In tonight’s show, as a female teacher admits having sex with a 12-year-old student and having his baby, Ben Harvey looks at other paedophile teacher cases to guess how much time she will serve.

EDITORIAL: It is hard to escape the thought that since COVID Australia has struggled to put the traditional economy back together.

Beijing’s envoy to Canberra has described Australia’s resistance to artificial intelligence collaboration as a “great pity” and warned “to turn away from China, is to turn away from opportunities”.

JENI O’DOWD: Going ‘no contact’ is the ultimate status symbol for the ultra-privileged.

DANE ELDRIDGE: He has had to carry the baggage of a very famous name, but he is now one of our most loved heroes and deservedly so.

AARON PATRICK: By pretending the Coalition split isn’t a political crisis, the Liberal Party Leader is insulting voters’ intelligence.