Rise of local terror demands better from our leaders
The scourge of anti-Semitism in Australia has become a runaway train that now demands a radically escalated counter-terror mindset from federal and state governments, police and spy agencies.
Commentary
Butler shows the way in guideline review
Australia’s Health Minister has decided to seek a new national treatment guideline for the care of young people with gender distress.
A strong military needs to recruit people of purpose, values and loyalty
Australia’s defence is at risk due to delays in acquiring the capabilities needed to meet the clear and present danger, butthere are others risks as well.
Lacking the firepower to clear streets of evil
Australia’s fight to eradicate anti-Semitism is undermined by frontline state and federal police being under-resourced, overworked and jurisdictionally hindered.
Hate Crimes Bill needs to address higher threat level
The Hate Crimes Bill, which comes before parliament next week, needs surgery to address what is now a higher threat level to when it was first written up by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus.
Why RFK is an unhealthy choice for the world
Robert Kennedy’s cousin says he can’t be let loose on the US health system.
Question of ethics: back-door banquet is food for thought
Even if you live in a Toorak mansion, how do you get a Labor Prime Minister and a former Labor premier over for an intimate dinner?
The inflation beast has been conquered but consumers have paid a high price
The inflation rate is good news for the government, but it does not guarantee either an interest-rate cut or Labor’s re-election.
Trump’s war on DEI puts the wind up our diversity divas
There is no evidentiary foundation to DEI. From the get-go, it was built on sand. But just watch the advocates in Australia hold on to a flawed policy.
How our blinkered leaders created a gas import absurdity
How did this bizarre situation come to pass? How is it that a country so blessed with resources, including large reserves of natural gas, can achieve such a ridiculous and costly arrangement?
Confident Albanese immersed in self-belief
The Prime Minister’s self-confidence in his campaigning prowess and popularity remains high, despite Labor being on track to lose majority government and his personal appeal hitting new lows.
Cost-of-living reality cruels Labor reset
Other prime ministers – like John Howard and Paul Keating – have been in similar positions in their first term and won. But Anthony Albanese’s slide has been gradual and consistent.
Gloomsters, listen up – the people are speaking out
Australians are proud of their country, proud of how it has evolved into one of the world’s most prosperous, fair and free societies. That’s something mighty to celebrate.
Speech makes an early election much less likely
The delusion in Anthony Albanese’s address on Friday was an apparent absence of urgency in addressing the present rather than the future. Household despair and the cost of living remain critical.
Why state budget is a fiscal horror show
The brutal truth is that successive Labor governments have failed to adequately control government spending or restrict the accumulation of debt for over two decades.
PM must define the aims of a second term
Voters see a nation more divided and less prosperous than the one Albanese inherited in 2022; this is the fundamental problem he must tackle in his address to the National Press Club.
Some questions of identity are less than welcome
Debate rages over the utility and purpose of welcome to country ceremonies, and increasingly Australians are required to ask who is conducting them.
Anti-Semitism is now an election issue for Albanese
Voters looking at how the federal government is responding to violence associated with anti-Semitism will be considering it in light of their willingness to deal with crime more broadly.
PM dropped hose on dousing flames of anti-Semitism
It has taken the firebombing of a childcare centre to force a volte-face from the Prime Minister to hold a national cabinet meeting.
How campus censors fuel the rise of a resurgent anti-Semitism
Hitler learned to hate Jewish people in the lecture halls of Munich University. His racism was not genetically encoded in him. All the evidence suggests that, when Hitler was a youth, the Jews were not on his radar. It was a university that changed all that.
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