Opinion

BEN MCCLELLAN: The league is finding out the hard way that leading the crusade against homophobia can have its pitfalls.

BEN HARVEY: Regardless of what the wider market is doing, do yourself a favour and think twice about buying a meme stock.

LANNA HILL: The Canberra economic roundtable became the perfect stage for this sleight of hand, complete with carefully managed line-ups of high-profile names and sound bites.

AARON PATRICK: Academics worried about meeting teenage high schoolers at an open day are being given ‘de-escalation’ training to help them stay calm in challenging situations.

EDITORIAL: If the Government can fulfil their pledge that kids won’t be left to slip between the cracks, everyone will be better off.

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.