Trump’s strongman tactics serve to diminish America
Donald Trump brings a reality-TV culture and real estate mentality to his rewriting of history and promotion of lies from the President’s office.
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China’s navy reveals Albanese as Pacific’s biggest jellyfish
The Chinese government’s flotilla of warships produced an aquatic circus, and the clownfish were aplenty. Beijing succeeded in intimidating and humiliating our PM.
Law students ‘gender shamed’ in week one
Postgrad students became a captive audience when forced to endure a lengthy slide show hectoring them on how poorly women were doing in the law and how the rich were doing very nicely.
Cold reality is the US can’t be bogged down in Ukraine
Many people find it unconscionable to negotiate with Putin and give up on Ukraine’s efforts to roll back Russia’s gains. But this is the cold, hard reality: Russia controls about 20 per cent of Ukraine, which is outmanned and outgunned on the battlefield.
Trump takes the dumbest tariff plunge
We’ve courted Donald Trump’s ire by calling the Mexico and Canada levies the ‘dumbest’ in history, and we may have understated the point. He’s whacking friends, not adversaries.
Artists demand freedom of expression while cancelling others
It is unreasonable for the arts community to expect Australia’s contribution to the Venice Biennale to be an artist whose work about anti-Semitic terror groups al-Qa’ida and Hezbollah conveys the message ‘thank you’.
Don’t blame multiculturalism for social woes
Thankfully, there is no going back to the days of cultural isolation. Multiculturalism is in our heads, our hearts and, for most of us, our genes.
‘Amusing ourselves to death’ in age of TikTok
Free speech doesn’t mean making ourselves fish in a barrel for malign foreign powers.
Frustrated voters see Germany shift further to the right
For a workable government, Friedrich Merz will have to deal with Alternative for Germany.
Accusations of ‘weaponising anti-Semitism’ aim to silence
Labor shrinks itself to the occasion with a grubby tactic that plays to the Israel-haters.
Delusions of Albonomics: growth model under siege calls for difficult choices
It might be the Prime Minister’s last stand, but taxpayers be warned: the big spending era will roll on.
Believe me, we’re all suffering for your art
It’s a harsh but realistic judgment: some artists need taxpayer funding because no one wants to buy their work.
Any high school history teacher could tell Trump why tariffs don’t work
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is an American satire and the characters are fictitious. But the film’s warning on what doesn’t make America great is very real.
Beijing tested our defences — Albanese blew it
In three decades of working closely with governments on defence strategy, I have never seen a prime minister less competent than Anthony Albanese at leading on national security.
The remarkable transformation of China’s introverted billionaire
Liang Wenfeng, 40, has suddenly become a pin-up for Beijing, a darling of China’s private sector and an idol to many young Chinese inspired by his desire to be ‘an innovator, not just a follower’.
Court in the act when consensual sex goes bad
Are we doing a disservice to women by ignoring their agency in relationships? Sexual power is nothing to sneeze at and the issue here is what flows from sexual freedom.
We’re alone and naked as China flexes its muscles
The next war will look different from all others. It will be fought in your social media feed and in whispered conspiracies. Nowhere and no one will be safe. In some ways it has already begun.
The PM’s first term has been a mess — but a second would be worse
The dystopian picture of an Albanese second act with major roles for Greens and teals may be just the scare campaign the Coalition needs. Yet we have to steel ourselves for the prospect that it could become our lived reality.
Trump’s political agenda isn’t just disruptive — it’s destructive
Watch how Donald Trump’s negotiations with Vladimir Putin play out as if your life depends on it – because it may well.
What have we become? Silence over babies’ murder a terrifying insight
Countries from Argentina to the US responded in solidarity to the deaths of Israel’s little Bibas boys. Here in Australia? Not a word in response from Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong to this heinous act.
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