Gender decision a welcome step
Done properly, the federal government-ordered review of treatment guidelines for the care of young people with gender distress is a positive step.
Editorials
Trump trade war gets off to a bizarre start on drugs
Australia must find way to engage given new US approach to friends.
Hamas barbarity has no limits
There was a renewed display of grotesque inhumanity on Saturday when the barbaric Hamas terrorists released another three hostages.
On anti-Semitism we were warned but did not listen
An open letter signed by Holocaust survivors in 2023 warning of the dangers posed by the evil spread of anti-Semitic violence in Australia has proved to be prophetic.
Wrong lane for bus driver Bandt
It is fitting that the Greens have seized upon the unfunded budget-wrecking cheap public transport policies of the failed Queensland Labor government as their template for what the federal government should do next.
Grant funding must be stripped
Anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah says she “looks for ways to bend rules, and refuse and subvert them”, including those that apply to her $870,000 taxpayer-funded research project.
Secrecy has been a big part of problem in terror fight
Much of the concern about the rise of anti-Semitic actions is due to too much secrecy and lack of demonstrated concern, for which politicians and police must share responsibility.
Trump puts Israel on top shelf
The US support for Israel’s ‘sovereign right’ to ban its operations shows the UNRWA still has a long way to go before it will overcome the damage done to it by its own Hamas terrorist employees.
Work needed on PS productivity
While our political leaders no doubt are focused on the potential for interest rate relief before the federal election, they should instead be preoccupied with how to lift productivity and grow the economy.
Big government is still the issue on inflation horizon
Disruptions to the global economy caused by Covid started our inflation problem; the remedies of Anthony Albanese, Jim Chalmers and Katy Gallagher risk turning it into its evil twin.
Great unravelling is under way
The private sector is finally starting to respond to a new reality as the net-zero stranglehold on financial and investment markets starts to unravel.
Trump revenge served hot, swift
With Donald Trump back in the White House, the reinstalled US President is ruthlessly meting out payback to those he apparently no longer likes or trusts.
DeepSeek is a heartbeat from communist DeepState
A claimed breakthrough by China could herald a new era of cheap AI but it also lifts the stakes in the geopolitical struggle between great powers.
Example set on gender medicine
The Queensland government has done the only responsible thing by freezing controversial hormone treatment services for new patients under 18 after revelations about a lack of proper care.
Reform of UN is long overdue
New Coalition foreign affairs spokesman David Coleman was stating the bleeding obvious when he declared the UN has ‘immense room for improvement’.
Fast-food union push makes Big Mac mess of flexibility
The trade union push into fast-food company McDonald’s is a fitting symbol of the stifling intrusion being posed by the Albanese government’s workplace relations changes.
Security is our key Pacific focus
Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has done Australia a good service by bringing clarity to the complex issues that face the Pacific region.
ABC shameful on Auschwitz
It beggars belief that the ABC and SBS have failed to properly acknowledge the significance of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp.
WHO failed on pandemic, as new CIA finding shows
Without US funding, health body can reflect on its shortcomings.
Hamas actions are bad for peace
Terrorist group is failing to honour terms of ceasefire agreement.
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