Europe’s critical turning point
With Ukraine unlikely to be the limit of Putin’s expansionist ambitions, Trump has good reason to demand more of Europe.
Editorials
Islamic bodies back sacked nurses
In joining forces to barrack for two Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital nurses who claimed on video they would kill Israeli patients, a group of 50 Muslim bodies are hurting decent, peace-loving Muslim citizens.
Housing schemes skewing markets have downsides
Both major parties need to be wary of market interference in the housing crisis, which is driven by a shortage of supply.
Deal with Nauru welcomed
Important questions remain after the Albanese government’s deal with Nauru to resettle three violent offenders, members of the infamous NZYQ cohort released under a 2023 High Court ruling.
Painfully slow hostage return
Hamas’s grudging handover of three more hostages left no doubt how far distant the terrorists remain from any genuine desire for an end to the war and the suffering of Gaza’s people.
NDIS criteria must be tackled
The saving of more than $600m from the budget forecast for the National Disability Insurance Scheme during the first seven months of the financial year is an important first step.
China’s provocative manoeuvre
The PLA’s pursuit of hegemony over the South China Sea is relentless.
We have dropped the ball on our civic responsibility
Leaving cultural enmities and conflict behind is a reasonable demand.
Free-market response welcome
This is the wake-up call that the Indigenous welfare industry needs and, following the wasted energy and money spent on the voice referendum, the Labor government deserves credit for finally seeking to put it in motion.
Carbon border tariff a bad step
The Albanese government must face up to the reality that what looked like good policy on climate change at the last election may not look so great anymore.
End to Ukraine war must not reward aggressor Putin
Donald Trump would be unwise to ignore the grave threat to European security that could potentially follow any peace deal that effectively hands Vladimir Putin victory in his brutal Ukrainian gambit.
Curb command/control economy
it never appears to occur to Anthony Albanese and his ministers that government is not an integral part of the market economy. Albanese should learn from it and not buy Rex.
New low: Nurses’ anti-Jewish hatred antithesis of medical ethics
The concerns of Australian Jews will be heightened by the fact that the video of two nurses threatening to kill Israeli patients is part of a despicable, long-running pattern of anti-Semitism.
President’s Hamas stand is right
Donald Trump’s warning that ‘all hell will break loose’ if all the Israeli hostages are not released on Saturday provides the response that is needed to the Hamas terrorists’ latest despicable display of inhumane chicanery over the hostages’ fate.
Chance to staunch Greens poison
If the mainstream parties are to join forces to rid Australian politics of the Greens’ high-tax, anti-development, anti-business, anti-Israel and anti-gas policies, lessons should be learned from the party’s loss of the Victorian state seat of Prahran.
Optics better than detail for PM in Trump hook-up
The big takeaway from the telephone conversation is that Donald Trump is at least willing to take a call from Anthony Albanese, who must hasten his plans for a face-to-face meeting with the President.
South Africa boycott is symbolic
Seizing well-run, productive white farms was never going to be good policy. Neither is siding with Moscow and Beijing within BRICS and lining up with Iran and Hamas against Israel.
Uni heads fail leadership test
Some vice-chancellors have ducked, failing what has become a test of national character – the right of Jews to walk, work and study where they choose without fear of abuse and worse.
We must act quickly but smartly on trade tariffs
It is time for Anthony Albanese to prove he can deal with Donald Trump. The imposition of a blanket 25 per cent tariff on steel and aluminium imports into the US follows a now-familiar pattern.
Important step for AUKUS pact
The Trump administration wants the first submarine ready for Australia on time and Australia’s down payment to boost production under the AUKUS agreement is an important step.
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