Opinion

MITCHELL JOHNSON: I disagree with the idea that we’re not playing our best side without Pat Cummins. Scott Boland’s bowling against England four years ago was devastating.

CAMERON MILNER: Albanese has said this is the first holiday he’s taken since being elected in 2022 while many Australians wonder when since then he was ever actually at work.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Just stopping this terrible war is worthy of praise. But to make history and collect a Nobel Prizes, Mr Trump will need to go strides further.

EDITORIAL: The precarious peace in Gaza has taken enormous effort and strength of will to achieve. Maintaining it will be even harder. 

BEN HARVEY: It doesn’t make sense — the price of gold goes up when people think the sky is falling, and Chicken Little shouldn’t be in the market for a new house.

Ben Harvey explains a little known ‘housing hack’ that allows people to access their super to use for a deposit to buy their first home.

EDITORIAL: He wants to be lauded as the peacemaker president, the man who succeeded where his rivals did not. He might have just done it. 

SOPHIE GANNON: The Geelong star seems to love being in the headlines, but I am not so sure his Geelong teammates or club bosses are loving it as much as he is.

MARK RILEY: For a major communications company it is strange that Optus doesn’t communicate very well. 

MITCHELL JOHNSON: Sam Konstas was not unlucky in the first Sheffield Shield hit-out and Marnus Labuschagne’s century should not lock him into the Ashes squad.

With Qantas being held to ransom by hackers, Harvey deduces there is one benefit to NOT flying at the pointy end of the plane – his data isn’t worthy stealing.

JUSTIN LANGER: Losing the Australian skipper for the first Test — or worse, the entire summer — will have monumental consequences for the series. Put simply, he is irreplaceable.

EDITORIAL: Can we be certain these women and their children aren’t still loyal to a doctrine which is anathema to our way of life? These are the questions that Government has so far failed to answer. 

KIERSTEN DUKE: It was hard to top Snoop Dogg’s performance, but the NRL nailed it with their entertainment.

JENI O’DOWD: With Labrador warmth and pro-level energy, Robert Irwin is doing something radical. And we’re hungry for it.