Opinion

RICHO’S TOP 10: Izak Rankine’s brain fade is going to cost him and the Adelaide Crows dearly.

MITCHELL JOHNSON: Bob Simpson revolutionised our national cricket system, but it seems some of his invaluable lessons have been forgotten by our current crop of stars.

AARON PATRICK: The shadow treasurer challenged the government over a spending splurge that is driving government debt to $1 trillion, drawing attention to its great weakness.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump is unlike any American President in the past 80 years. 

EDITORIAL: Anthony Albanese and his cadre of left-wing world leaders think they can simply wish this utopia into existence. They can’t.

AARON PATRICK: From a billionaire facilitator of Elon Musk to a supplier of high-quality marijuana, the experts who gathered in Canberra today know more about productivity than they care to admit.

DANE ELDRIDGE: The Roosters chief deal-maker rarely gets it wrong, but paying $800k to an ageing and fading star is looking like a very poor investment.

SOPHIE GANNON: After being unbeatable for most of the year the Pies look cooked. These are the stats that show how it has all gone so wrong, so very quickly.

EDITORIAL: Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly agreed to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky face-to-face, sometime in the next fortnight. 

LATIKA M BOURKE: The Ukrainian president’s gang of Euro leaders deftly flattered Donald Trump in a bid to steer him away from the Kremlin. But grave questions still linger about Kyiv’s way forward.

MARK ‘SPUDD’ CARROLL: Harry Grant should have been the one penalised for his Oscar winning performance to win a match-defining penalty.

EDITORIAL: You can be guaranteed that whatever outcomes emerge from this week’s reform roundtable, they will be markedly less significant than the time and energy expended talking about it in the lead-up. 

KATE EMERY: Parents have lots of reasons to complain. Book Week is not one of them.

AARON PATRICK: Government has never been this pervasive in the modern age, strangling innovation, enterprise and ambition. The problem may barely be mentioned this week in Canberra.

MICHAEL USHER: What we witnessed was possibly the greatest act of forgiveness ever recorded in Australia. A dad hugging his kids’ killer.