Given the limited facts available, a reasonable person might conclude there is more than an element of political and public service payback in the stripping of former Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo’s Order of Australia.
Without the Frederick McCubbin painting targeted by a vandal, it is difficult to know what visitors to the WA Museum will make of a clear piece of perspex with the name Woodside spray painted on it.
All leaders, state and federal, must focus on spending discipline and not squeezing out the private sector with jobs that are only possible because of other people’s money.
Australia’s spending $7bn over the decade to revolutionise air and missile defence systems under a new agreement with the US is a major step towards strengthening deterrence in the Indo-Pacific.
Unless parliament changes the rules, Australians are stuck with paying ex-Greens Victorian independent senator Lidia Thorpe almost $1m until her term ends in June 2028.
The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference to be held this week provides a welcome platform for the free exchange of ideas.
The importance of confronting the ‘Axis of Evil’, made up of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, has been underlined in recent days.
Barring an enormous surprise, David Crisafulli will be Queensland premier this time next week. If he is true to his promises, his first term could be one of modest and narrow achievement.
It did not take long for the Palestinian Authority to show its true colours following last week’s killing of Hamas overlord and mass murderer Yahya Sinwar.
Medical research that transforms lives takes brilliance, teamwork and resources. It can also take decades, which is the case in an ambitious clinical trial to restore movement in patients with paralysis.
Had the Jewish state ceased fire, the evil terrorist would still be alive, exercising his tyrannical rule over Gaza and plotting the demise of Israel, backed by Iran.
Reforms of IR, tax, energy and red and green tape would lift growth. Jim Chalmers is ignoring the obvious – that more jobs and higher wages for workers in aged care, childcare and disability care depend on the productive economy.
Australians all let us rejoice at the arrival of King Charles and Queen Camilla. That is ‘all’ as in monarchists, republicans and those not much fussed one way or the other that he reigns over us.
Jobs growth is being driven mainly by taxpayers. The nation needs a better balance of private investment and growth.
Mauritius and the Maldives have drawn closer to Xi’s influence. The Albanese government will understand what a boost the Starmer government’s handover of Diego Garcia will be for China.
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah had no choice but to resign as a member of the National Gallery of Australia Council.
Australia’s donation adds to the vital firepower the Ukrainian people need to deny any enduring success for what the Albanese government correctly calls Russia’s ‘illegal and immoral invasion’.
The government and opposition should study and absorb Kevin Rudd’s sobering argument that Australia should not be lulled into a false sense of security given the current normalisation of ties with China.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has shown bad judgment from the start in vetoing the proposed $1bn McPhillamys goldmine near Blayney in central west NSW.
David Crisafulli must do better than Labor, which, clearly, has washed its hands of the issue of the state’s mounting debt, an attitude that amounts to treating Queenslanders with contempt.
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