Primary Opinion Limited
- Editorial
- Immigration
Time to end political point-scoring over freed detainees and crime
The current blame game is setting a low bar for Australia’s political discourse. A sober, balanced assessment of the problem is urgently required.
- The Age's View
Latest
Move over, Met Gala: Labor’s budget night bash the big ticket in town
Tickets to a Labor budget night fundraiser have sold out. The Liberals, meanwhile, can’t fill their tables.
- Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
- Opinion
- Architecture
This large, ugly excrescence risks wrecking Melbourne for decades to come
To be built over the Jolimont rail yards, it’s called Treasury Square. In fact, what is proposed is simply a dense set of three buildings – no open public square in sight. Will we allow our city to slide into squalor once again?
- Norman Day
- Opinion
- Film & TV production
How corporate greed is killing the ‘golden age’ of television
The churn and burn strategy adopted by streaming giants means we may never see shows like The Wire, Six Feet Under or Breaking Bad on screens again.
- Glen Dolman
- Opinion
- Jobs
We reached the spending cliff – but the jobs cliff awaits
Conventionally, a slowdown in the economy would have triggered companies to shed staff, but convention is being challenged by a counter-trend – staff hoarding.
- Elizabeth Knight
- Opinion
- Global warming
Nelson Mandela is my grandfather. His courage can guide our climate battle
Moral challenges require leaders who can provide a moral framework that political goals can leverage. Except now we need it on a global scale.
- Ndileka Mandela
- Opinion
- Freedom of speech
Rushdie attack: naive Westerners still refuse to accept truth about Iran’s evil regime
Iran never has lifted the fatwa on Sir Salman Rushdie, even as the West pretended it could be trusted.
- Stephen Pollard
- Opinion
- Rupert Murdoch
I was feeling old but Murdoch’s divorce cheered me
The man is 91 and he can still be bothered to not only run a giant media empire and go on boats but to get divorced.
- Kate Halfpenny
- Editorial
- Coronavirus pandemic
Pandemic-ravaged tourism industry needs urgent help
The tourism sector has been devastated by the pandemic, but the industry has also been cruelled by political opportunism associated with arbitrary border closures.
- The Herald's View
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