AARON PATRICK: The prime minister’s plan to toughen gun laws is a distraction from the harder-to-solve challenge of facing up to anti-Jewish hatred among elements of the Muslim community.
Aaron Patrick
Anthony Albanese is facing his toughest political period since Labor’s resounding election win in May, or perhaps even since he first took office back in 2022.
Andrew Greene
The blood is on the hands of the father and son terrorists who pulled the triggers. But our leaders are culpable.
Jessica Page
Talk of restricting gun ownership is a cop out. The Albanese Government must extinguish the wildfire of anti-Semitism which has been allowed to sweep across the nation.
DAVID FICKLING: In Australia, beaches are a sacred space where people of all walks of life meet. By committing an act of terror at Bondi, the shooters targeted our social cohesion.
David Fickling
SARAH STINSON: Bondi has always stood for openness and belonging. What it can stand for now is something even more important.
Sarah Stinson
After two years of talk about stopping anti-Semitism in Australia, Jewish leaders are calling for action. Politicians must listen to them.
Katina Curtis
EDITORIAL: Anthony Albanese’s poor leadership has resulted in a country where Jewish people live in fear of the overwhelming evil anti-Semitic terrorism that has washed ashore.
AARON PATRICK: For much of the past two years the Jewish community was accused of exaggerating anti-Semitism for sympathy. Sunday’s terrorist attack shows the warnings should have been listened to.
This was an attack not only on Australia’s Jewish community. This was an attack on Australia, on Australian values and Australia’s most cherished freedoms. This was terror.
JENI O’DOWD: I was at home, happily watching TV and drinking wine when I received a sickening text from my teenage daughter who’d gone to Bondi Beach for the day.
Jeni O’Dowd
I’m going to rank the top 10 Christmas desserts. No correspondence will be entered into. And because I love drama, I’m counting down from worst to best. This has more tension than the Hottest 100. Let’s begin.
Nat Locke
Roger Cook, you make me want to vomit. Your hypocrisy over Cleveland Dodd’s suicide in a prison cell turns my stomach.
BEN HARVEY
This weekend’s heat and tough conditions for fire crews are a powerful reminder of the importance of bushfire preparedness.
Editorial
Rita Saffioti is not someone who likes to hear the word “no”.
Joe Spagnolo
Firstly, One would tell your husband he can stick his appliances where the sun don’t shine and get himself to the David Jones perfume counter forthwith.
Jay Hanna
West Australians are heading into the break with one eye on the beach and the other on the numbers.
Lanna Hill
JUSTIN LANGER: I’ve always believed that true greatness isn’t just measured by what you achieve on the field, but by how you handle life’s moments when the scoreboard isn’t in your favour.
Justin Langer
Unpacking the hyperbole around renewables is as simple as realising that on cloudy days, solar panels will be pretty useless.
Paul Murray
Being trapped with 500 people in a metal tube for 15 hours is a very particular inferno. So please, spare me the bare feet and shabby airport clothes.
Glynis Traill-Nash
Australians would really like their MPs to stop pissing their hard-earned taxpayer dollars away on idling Comcars and flash dinners.
For West Aussies living on low income after years of dual cost-of-living and housing crises, it can feel like things are never going to get better.
Louise Giolitto
WA needs to build homes that are close to jobs, amenities and educational opportunities - but it doesn’t have to mean high density housing.
Cassandra Winzar
What the Treasurer wants, the Treasurer gets, right? Just ask her Cabinet colleagues.
Basil Zempilas
