Opinions

Na’ama Carlin, Louise Chappell & Siobhan O'Sullivan

An edited extract of Being Patient: Close Encounters in Cancer World, by Na'ama Carlin, Louise Chappell and Siobhan O'Sullivan. Available from 1 May in all good bookshops.

Claire Stuchbery

A new bargaining levy aims to safeguard quality Australian journalism, but risks entrenching media concentration and limiting diversity if local, independent and emerging publishers miss out on the funding raised.

Louise Morris

Here is a truth that those in power have never quite figured out how to deal with: change doesn't start at the top. It starts at the fringes. It starts with people who have the least and stand to lose the most. And eventually, it ends up in the halls of power.

Louise Morris

Delegates from more than 50 countries arrived in Santa Marta already primed by disruption: higher prices, tighter supply chains and renewed volatility. Many arrived with scaled-back delegations, as the same fossil fuel-driven conflicts dominating the agenda constrained travel, strained government bandwidth, and diverted political attention at home. The result has been a notable hardening of tone and urgency. Fossil fuels are being recast not just as the cause of climate change, but as a systemic risk to economic and political stability.

Amy Remeikis

Labor’s obstinance on gas tax reform reflects a broader pattern of political incrementalism, their capture by fossil fuel interests, and a desire to attract more conservative votes — a pattern that will likely come back to bite them later.

Will Tracey

This week, the Prime Minister announced $1.1bn in funding for the Kwinana Westport container terminal proposal. But while this project has long been argued by Western Australian governments as necessary, it relies on assumptions that have not materialised and would result in billions of dollars committed to an unecessary project rather than to the urgent and visible crises in housing, healthcare, and education infrastructure.

Bill Browne

The High Court has struck down Victoria’s donation laws, leaving Victorian Parliament to reconsider how political donations should be regulated ahead of the next election

Julie Hare

ANU's council has signed a "voluntary" agreement with the regulator about how Julie Bishop's successor will be chosen. It doesn't reflect well on the council.