Opinion

AARON PATRICK: Michele Bullock described Tuesday’s interest rate hike in bloodless central-banker speak - but it will cost the economy roughly $3 billion to $6 billion.

OPINON: Statements and opinion pieces from the Jewish Council of Australia have been circulating for months in authoritative fashion as though this body speaks for Australian Jews. It does not.

LATIKA M BOURKE: The Opposition should have had the PM on the ropes after the Bondi massacre. Instead they’ve fully imploded and are now being outpolled by One Nation.

EDITORIAL: It seemed like it was all he could do to restrain himself from punching the air in triumph before he made multiple jabs at his opponents’ leadership and Coalition confusion.

GEORGIE PARKER: He is arguably the best player to grace a court, so it was heartbreaking to see him reveal this detail.

Watching the Liberal Party’s leadership saga is excruciating. It’s like witnessing a slow death: drawn-out, painful and entirely avoidable.

PAUL MURRAY: Since Albanese announced his government would recognise Palestine, he has made no progress in advancing the ersatz conditions he put on the recognition of a sovereign state that doesn’t even exist.

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.