Opinion

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.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: ‘I love browsing TikTok while I’m doing my business. Will this give me constipation or haemorrhoids?’

MITCHELL JOHNSON: The side has a proven track record, but face an age-old problem heading into this summer.

Ben Harvey delivers some brutal truths to leadership agitator Andrew Hastie whose stance on net zero put him in the crosshairs of his colleagues.

EDITORIAL: Two years after Hamas militants penetrated the Israeli border on a mission to cause as much death and pain as possible, the tragedy of October 7 continues. 

JUSTIN AMLER: October 7 was a war on Jews everywhere, stripping away the illusion that we were safe in great Western democracies like Australia that value peace, tolerance and coexistence.

AARON PATRICK: An anti-Israel gathering on the anniversary of the war’s start demonstrates why the Palestinian-Jewish conflict is so intractable.