Opinion

PERIN DAVEY: The ban is unworkable in practice and risks fostering a culture of defiance rather than one built on digital literacy, responsibility and resilience. 

MARK RILEY: The slipping and sliding from politicians trying to justify the gobsmacking amount they charge taxpayers to fly their families around the country and overseas has voters white hot with rage. 

MITCHELL JOHNSON: The Poms like to talk the talk, but slogans aren’t going to save them from what is fast shaping up as an embarrassing Ashes series defeat.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Though Republicans like being able to put a feminine face on their culture war crusades, some women in the party are realising there’s a difference between being useful and being respected.

After Australia’s richest person was denied the right to get to work by helicopter, Ben Harvey suggests ways to use the money saved from not having a helipad at the new headquarters of Hancock Prospecting.

EDITORIAL: The current system relies on MPs to employ some common sense and moral awareness. We can’t trust them to exercise either of these traits.

JENI O’DOWD: Anika Wells is the latest in a long line of politicians having a grand old time at your expense. It really shouldn’t be that way.

AARON PATRICK: Despite overwhelming public support for banning children from some sites, the rule could drive teenagers to dark parts of the internet.

DANE ELDRIDGE: England need to pull off a feat not seen in nearly a century to salvage this bin fire of a tour — and they won’t do it by sunning themselves on the beach.

A federal judge ordered raids on more than 10 soccer clubs, including top tier outfits San Lorenzo and Racing, as part of the ongoing investigation.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The economic disaster of Brexit offers a grim preview of what tomorrow may hold for the United States.

EDITORIAL: Economists had expected the RBA to keep rates on hold, but the bank’s tone of extreme caution will rattle some. This was the RBA sounding the alarm.

LISA STHALEKAR: England has made a complete mess of this Ashes tour and claiming they trained too hard is utter nonsense

LORRAINE FINLAY: If you think handing over your identification is risk-free, think again.

AARON PATRICK: The sports minister’s referral to the politicians’ expenses agency will be pointless if voters decide her trips were for pleasure instead of work.