Opinion

LATIKA M BOURKE: When faced with the most consequential test of his prime ministership to date, Mr Albanese emerged a follower and not a leader. 

MENACHEM VORCHHEIMER: The royal commission must be to restore Australia to a place where no citizen — Jewish or otherwise — needs armed guards or fortified walls to live openly as who they are.

EDITORIAL: Mr Albanese should have called the inquiry a long time ago. But he has come to the right position in the end.

AARON PATRICK: Jewish leaders want an inquiry to go beyond intelligence failures into the deeper causes of anti-Semitism in Australia, which could backfire on the Government.

JENI O’DOWD: In October 2024, the Government promised to ban debit card surcharges from January 1, 2026. Why are we still waiting?

Brisbane Lions coach Chris Fagan won't stand in the way of Lachie Neale if the former co-captain chooses to depart at season's end.

EDITORIAL: To set terms of reference of the expected inquiry too narrowly would be a backward step.

ANDREW GREENE: One Labor insider believes a federal royal commission would ‘set us up for a year of pain’.

JACKSON BARRETT: England’s Ashes have been an unmitigated disaster but they should be favourites for the next two series and here’s why.

DANE ELDRIDGE: Travis Head has marked himself as one of the nation’s great batters this Ashes, while the bitter English show some fight after already surrendering.

EDITORIAL: Albanese must finally see what the rest of the nation sees and agree to a royal commission into Bondi.

LISA STHALEKAR: We thought this Ashes series would be the death of swashbuckling, seemingly mindless batting — in fact, it’s just the beginning.

MARC CHAMPION: As in Venezuela, and echoing Putin in Crimea, what Donald Trump cares about is access to resources and re-establishing an exclusive sphere of influence in the western hemisphere.

Surviving the corporate meat grinder means a CEO must master these new pressures.

Donald Trump’s tariffs in 2025 marked the worst US-led trade war since 1930, with one Labor minister labelling it a ‘dog act’. But the American President was just doing what Australia did much more recently.