Opinion
Friday 9th June 2017
Twisted beliefs driving Islamists
Defensive politically correct position betrays us all.
Grumpy voters hanker for hope
Workers won’t spend and so Morrison’s house-of-cards budget has fallen over.
Beware Bill‘s low-emissions ‘gifts’
Malcolm Turnbull is in dire trouble. He needs to be wary of ceding political ground to an ideologically driven Labor.
Friday 9th June 2017
No magic bullets in Finkel review
There is a danger the response to today’s energy market blueprint will be clouded by climate change ideology.
Not fake news, but quite bad
The debt from deficits past cast a shadow over the rosier picture in the budget.
Energy is the test they all fail
It is not about convictions, they are just wrestling with what the politics will allow.
Casualty in credibility stakes
Innocents murdered at home and abroad — yet predictably, Waleed Aly counters with moral superiority and condescension.
Masked by smoke and mirrors
Forget that piffle about Australia breaking a record by failing to record a technical recession in 103 quarters.
Pie growing, but slices smaller
Most pet-shop galahs are crowing about Australia’s 26 years of economic growth. The reality is much less impressive.
Hizb ut-Tahrir has plans for us
Deaths of innocents just brushed aside as extremists blame everyone but themselves.
We have word for it: opportunity
The government’s citizenship laws should be seen as an advantage, not a burden.
Jobless-wages growth nexus ends
Changed working hours may explain how this traditional link has been broken.
Budget surplus a fairytale
Today’s quarterly growth numbers throw shade all over the unrealistic forecasts in the budget.
Failure to get language right
Australians are fed up with the failure of politicians to call a spade a spade.
Call it for what it is
It is profoundly ill advised to deceive ourselves and to pretend that terrorist attacks are not terrorist attacks.
Worse than no leaders at all
Media eager lightweights like Sadiq Khan and Waleed Aly are forever falling at the same early hurdle.
World can’t afford for May to fail
Theresa May’s challenge is to hold together the centre of British politics in age of populism.
A favour to review immigration
After recent attacks, any political party that refuses to tackle this issue will lose credibility.
Better the RET devil you know
I’m fast coming to the conclusion that the government might be best advised simply to keep the RET.
Caution on low pay wins day
Commission again splits the difference, leaving the ACTU and business grumbling.
Rise won’t help those who need it
The Fair Work Commission is doing its bit to make sure wages pick up as forecast in the budget.
Syria victory won’t halt attacks
The attacks on Manchester and London should make us realise that the war on terrorism will continue for years.
Too dumb to plot but not to kill
Yacqub Khayre watched as the old era of Islamic terrorism gave way to the new, and he changed along with it.
Malevolence we cannot speak
Compare the pair; our national responses to domestic violence and Islamist extremism.
We should follow Met’s lead
If London Bridge shows anything, it’s the importance of having heavily armed, specialist police ready to respond quickly.
Thatcher legacy is ditched
Enigmatic Theresa May’s defensive, presidential style has failed spectacularly.
Arabs against Jewish homeland
A 1937 report contained the first official recommendation for a two-state solution.
PM’s chance to fix energy mess
For the first time in 50 years we have a shortage of active generation capacity.
‘The father noticed red flags’
How Dr Jamal Rifi “does his duty’’ and steps in when a member of his Muslim community is becoming radicalised.
