Opinion

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.

EDITORIAL: The nation needs a strong Opposition with a clear plan to hold Mr Albanese and his Government to account.

LISA STHALEKAR: They are the most successful Big Bash team in the country but moves are afoot that could put that in jeopardy.

EDITORIAL: We needed the spirit of Australia Day to kick-start a sense of unity in the wake of the terrible Bondi massacre.

AARON PATRICK: About 30 per cent of Australia’s population was born overseas. So why is the national day so popular with immigrants?

DIMITRI BURSHTEIN & PETER SWAN: Australia doesn’t need lectures from debt-laden, high-taxing, bureaucracy-loving Europe on how to run its economy.

GEORGIE PARKER: Tennis players have enough on their plates without being grilled in this fashion.

EDITORIAL: On Friday, as the Liberals and Nationals hangovers kicked in, Anthony Albanese was handed a gift of his own design.

JUSTIN LANGER: Never in any of our wildest dreams could we have imagined the heartbreaking twist of fate that was to befall our friend.

AARON PATRICK: Instead of being ‘humiliated’, Brooklyn Beckham should appreciate the fame, attention and freedom from any form of conventional employment his parents have afforded him.