Opinion

AARON PATRICK The world’s richest man has just engaged in history’s most expensive troll-fest.

EDITORIAL: The PM could hardly contain himself as his latest Labor Party signing dropped the hammer on the Greens, but they will still come together to get the super tax over the line.

MITCHELL JOHNSON: English crowds have no love for our Test team so it will be interesting to see how their return after the 2023 dressing room run in plays out.

RICHO’S TOP 10: After the shemozzle that just played out in the Apple Isle’s parliament, the election will be a referendum on the new stadium.

MARK RILEY: New data shows wages, inflation and jobs are improving — but Labor didn’t want to say voters were ‘better off’ until after the election.

AARON PATRICK: The Liberal Party knows it has a women problem. Joking about special protections for men does not help.

KIERSTEN DUKE: A lot of people talk a big game in supporting female sport, but Alexander Volkanovski has shown why he is a man of his word with the NRLW

JENI O’DOWD: The Albanese Government's proposed social media ban for children under 16 will fail unless mums and dads step up.

SARAH STINSON: I thought I understood anti-Semitism. I thought it lived in the past.  But in Israel, I felt its weight — not as theory, but inheritance. 

EDITORIAL: Anthony Albanese has no time for political turncoats who disrespect the will of voters by defecting from the Labor party. But that logic doesn’t work in reverse. 

WATCH: In Newsworthy, Ben O’Shea looks at the pros and cons of millions of Aussie workers getting a 3.5 per cent pay rise. Plus, is it buyer beware for Anthony Albanese after the Dorinda Cox defection?

ANDREW CARSWELL: Net zero is heading towards disaster. But the Coalition is in no position to prosecute a retreat from a 2050 target.

DANE ELDRIDGE: Living on past glories is a dangerous strategy as Brisbane is finding out the hard way with their season spiralling into oblivion.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Anthony Albanese should not wait for the Coalition to rise from the ashes to make national security an electoral issue once again. It is in the national interest that he act now.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Elon Musk brought the Silicon Valley mantra ‘Move fast and break things’ to Washington. But the main thing he broke was his own reputation.