Opinion

GEORGIE PARKER: Rankine is not a fringe player. He is one of the league’s brightest stars. And that is exactly why, if the charge is proven true, the AFL cannot afford to flinch.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: It’s hard to avoid the impression that Vladimir Putin once again succeeded in gaining more time for his war, which is currently going his way.

PAUL MURRAY: The Palestine move is gesture politics at its worst, but there are real consequences.

EDITORIAL: Anthony Albanese’s statehood move is driving a wedge between Australia and the country’s number one security guarantor, the US.

AARON PATRICK: By recognising a nation that does not exist, the government damaged Australia’s relationship with the only country capable of preventing China’s dominance of the region.

BEN HARVEY: Australia’s recognition of Palestine is not about national interest, it’s about Anthony Albanese and his attempt to secure Labor’s flimsy partyroom.

NICK DYRENFURTH & DOMINIC MEAGHER: The billions poured by banks into the property services sector is not just a misallocation of capital, but a productivity killer.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In a nation made supposedly of laws, we have gambled on the discretion of men to keep the use of crisis authority in check. With Trump, we played a bad hand.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump appears poised to reward Putin for his invasion of Ukraine, a stark departure from the US Senate’s 2022 resolution condemning Russia’s leader as a war criminal.

MARK RILEY: The Middle East is a complication wrapped in a complexity, mired in confusion, and the perils for little players are big.

EDITORIAL: By switching allegiances away from our old ally Israel and coming out in support of Palestinian recognition now, Mr Albanese is picking a side. 

MICHAELIA CASH: Labor’s statehood push will legitimise Hamas and further entrench their power in Palestine.

KATE EMERY: The antidote to toxic masculinity might just be a burly 19-year-old athlete who is not afraid to admit he’s homesick and misses his family.

RICHO’S TOP 10: Nathan Buckley appears the front-runner to take the Melbourne job but this is the guy I’d be hiring.

Storytelling is as much about what you obscure as what you share. Wave a flag over here and no one is looking over there.