Opinion

EDITORIAL: Barnaby Joyce has always done exactly as he pleased, damn the consequences for anyone else — even for those on his own side.

CAMERON MILNER: The United Nations is going the way of the dinosaurs; it’s overly large and no longer suited to its fast-changing external environment.

MARK ‘SPUDD’ CARROLL: It’s the question Manly fans have been waiting patiently for their former skipper to answer - and it’s about bloody time he did.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: When the amount of deviant behaviour rises, people begin to redefine deviant behaviour as normal.

WENLEI MA: With the insane volume of things on Netflix, the good stuff gets lost, especially the genuinely great shows the algorithm no longer serves up.

Wonder and astonishment used to be easy. Yet today, we meet the Himalayas with a shrug because there’s no wi-fi. Use this issue as your wake-up.

EDITORIAL: The PM’s packed travel schedule will open him up to inevitable criticism for taking his eye off domestic matters. But showing up is important

BEN HARVEY: Getting the $3.1 billion deal over the line was hard; getting any kind of return on investment will be harder. 

LATIKA M BOURKE: It was surely a disappointing day for those who have exploited the US President’s style in a campaign to cool the alliance.

Johnny Depp has booked his first studio movie since being fired by Warner Bros after a UK court found in favour of a newspaper which alleged he was a ‘wife beater’. Is this the comeback the world wants?

EMMA FREEDMAN: Via Sistina can follow in a long list of great horses, as we bid farewell to one of the great race tracks on Saturday.

EDITORIAL: He stepped off his RAAF jet at Sydney Airport clad in a shirt from English postpunks Joy Division. This was Anthony Albanese wearing what he wanted to wear. Because who is going to stop him? 

Michael Vaughan knows how to stir a headline, and suggesting Mitch Marsh opens in the Ashes feels more like playful mischief than genuine advice.

MARK RILEY: Despite Sussan Ley’s demands, there’s no chance Anthony Albanese will sack Kevin Rudd.

AARON PATRICK: A working mother’s win against Westpac shows just how far the pendulum has swung against employers.