Opinion

MARK RILEY: Expect the May Budget to break previously inviolable commitments not to tinker with property taxes

Throwing Government money around in what Chalmers will no doubt badge as cost-of-living relief in the May 12 Budget will be pulling in the opposite direction to the RBA’s use of its interest rate lever.

AARON PATRICK: Australia’s prices breakout is worse than most other countries. Economists blame spending increases by the Labor government.

Fans will be hanging on every kick for goal, but not just because they want their team to win.

A lot is riding on the May 12 Federal Budget, and not just for the Albanese Government, but for the country itself.

The Secret Service is coming to terms with the desperation of Donald Trump’s would-be assassins, with the latest attempt at the Washington Hilton Hotel the scene of another Presidential shooting 45 years ago.

There has never been a more important time for action to protect local news providers and ensure they are compensated for the work they do.

He appears to be the first big chief PNG have signed and that may not be a bad thing for Wests.

Each act of political violence further frays our threadbare social fabric, laying the foundation for authoritarianism.

Ben Harvey explains why the sniper who killed Nick Martin fought so hard to have suppression orders protecting his identity lifted, with Benjamin Luke Johnston keen to have his life turned into a screen play.

It means a redoubling of the need to ensure that where we disagree it does not escalate into violence.

DAVID KOCH: While we can’t control global oil markets or volatile price cycles, we can take some practical steps to ease the financial squeeze.

Anzac Day was particularly poignant this year for veterans of Australia’s longest war, which is likely to be put on trial through the allegations against Ben Roberts-Smith.

ANDREW BRAGG: Knowing their Budget is in trouble and they can’t fix spending, Labor are reverting to type. To piecemeal tax hikes.

His NDIS reform has sent the Health Minister to the top of the list of candidates of Anthony Albanese’s potential successors. But he has to get rid of Penny Wong first.