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CHRISTOPHER DORE: Terrified of falling back into China’s diplomatic deep freeze, Anthony Albanese opts for prostration in the face of military provocation.
EDITORIAL: The High Court decision the Government is within its rights to keep people with cancelled visas locked up if they refuse to cooperate is a rare win in what has been an absolute fiasco for Labor
NATASHA CLARK: I was ten years old when mum died in her thirties. And as I approach thirty, the glorification of dying young resurfaces and the urge to reverse time.
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MARK RILEY: Anthony Albanese was wearing a big smile as he presented himself at Perth’s Kings Park on Wednesday morning on his latest whirlwind visit to the west. But it didn’t last long...
MITCHELL JOHNSON: With the Paris Games right around the corner it made me think of my brush with sporting greatness as a humble teenager making my way in the world of cricket two decades ago.
EDITORIAL: We know we need to derive more of our power from renewable sources. We also need to keep the lights on. Eco-extremists wrongly cast it as a zero-sum proposition — team gas or team renewables.
BILL SHORTEN: This time last year Joeanne Cassar’s life changed forever because of a vicious knife attack in her workplace. No worker should have to face aggression for simply doing their job.
AMELIA BRACE: When considering which way to vote, Ronald Reagan famously encouraged Americans to ask themselves whether they are better off today than they were four years ago.
RICHO’S TOP 10: The rule players are using to milk free kicks, the two defenders who could win their side a flag and a rising star in the midfield ranks you have to see in action.
CAITLIN BASSETT: You know you’ve made it as a professional athlete when you receive your first abusive message from an online troll.
Cyclists, once the mistreated third-class citizens of the roads, have now become as arrogant and overbearing as the worst of drivers.
HUGH PENNINGTON: Without the COVID vaccines, many thousands more would have died. And I am probably one of them.
EDITORIAL: Economists are barracking for a constrained Budget that keeps spending at or below current levels. The country can’t afford for Dr Chalmers to put a foot wrong.
KATINA CURTIS: Economists might have a clear-cut view of the way the world should be but when you add the brutal realities of politics into the mix, that cost-benefit analysis becomes a lot murkier.
The sun was setting over Waikiki Beach in Hawaii, with waves lapping gently at the shore. I was lounging on a beach chair, thinking I’d paid for a slice of paradise. But paradise suddenly got a bit complicated.