Opinion

EDITORIAL: World leaders are at his beck and call. Even royalty receive him with fawning pageantry. 

KATE EMERY: The tech that was supposed to free us from the tyranny of a conventional 9 to 5 has turned against us. Our WiFi is officially a narc.

LISA STHALEKAR: While Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli drew the spotlight it was the hosts who took the series — and a crucial step towards building their next World Cup squad.

LATIKA M BOURKE: In copycatting the US President’s tactics, thin-skinned Anthony Albanese is degrading the role of the media. 

Dutch beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde issued a statement after Australian authorities made a decision over his entry to compete in the 2025 world championships.

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?