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We were told last November that 860 visitor visas would be issued to Palestinians needing refuge until the war in Gaza was over. We were also told the visas would only be issued after thorough security checks had been conducted.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appears to have confirmed that his government has abandoned attempts to pass a religious discrimination bill during this term of parliament. 

Australians were told last week that the terror threat has been raised from “likely” to “probable”. We were also told that “probable” didn’t mean “inevitable”. And we were told that the decision to move from “likely” to “probable” was not based on any specific information.

Lamenting the inattention to the Quad, the multilateral relationship involving Australia, India, Japan and the United States of America, former Japanese ambassador to Australia, Shingo Yamagami, warned: "The strategic reality the Quad faces has not changed for the better."

The irony of taking two fuel-guzzling jets to make an environmental announcement seems lost on Chris Bowen, who is intent on telling Australians that they should dispense with their fossil-fuelled vehicles in favour of electric cars and utes.

The announcement by the Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, that the Albanese government would recognise a Palestinian state is a crass domestic political statement. It even fails to establish the necessary preconditions for the recognition of Palestine.

National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding could outstrip defence. Defence spending estimates for the current year are at AU$56 billion, with NDIS currently running at a staggering AU$44.3 billion.

What a tangled web we weave when we don’t know what we believe. Watching Prime Minister Anthony Albanese do verbal cartwheels would be funny if it didn’t have such serious consequences.

A South Australian lawmaker plans to table a new bill that would require religious schools to employ homosexual teachers. Current Australian law enables faith-based schools to employ and enrol staff and students based on their faith.

Multiculturalism is at a “crossroads”, with greater leadership needed to “break the cycle of hate” and “teach a new generation of Australians to rise above entrenched beliefs”, two leaders of the government’s multicultural policy review have warned.

You have to shake your head at the way the Left, who get offended at anything Trump says (and a lot he does not say), are suddenly sooooo forgiving when one of their own openly says he wishes someone dead.

Religious leaders and the Coalition are urging Anthony Albanese to ignore a report it commissioned into reducing discrimination at faith-based schools, claiming the lead author has contradicted its findings by calling for stronger legal protections for religious institutions.

How are we meant to feel about the Prime Minister’s announcement that he is appointing a special envoy for anti-Semitism? How did we get to a point where we now need special advisors, in order to keep a law-abiding, peaceful, highly productive section of our community safe?

For months, the Voice was all we talked about. And then — nothing. The “week of silence” declared by Indigenous leaders after the referendum’s defeat was only barely succeeded by serious reflection from the rest of Australia.

Advance, the conservative activist group that torpedoed Anthony Albanese’s Voice referendum, will pump millions of dollars into a sole election campaign vehicle designed to drag down the Greens’ vote and expose the party’s radical policies.

Australian Wikileaks boss Julian Assange is free, following a plea deal. While immediate, his release is conditional. Assange’s future freedom rests on pleading guilty to the United States Justice Department’s charge of espionage.

Josh Frydenberg, the former Treasurer of Australia, is a proud Australian and proud Jew. Feeling deeply the effects of antisemitism in his own life, he has produced an outstanding video calling out Antisemitism for what it is – one of the most deep-seated hatreds in the world today.

Anthony Albanese is being urged to replicate a landmark British review into interventionist medical treatments that enable young children to change gender, amid increasing concern that puberty blockers may cause serious harm.

While standing firm on the rights of Australians to access affordable sausage sizzles, PM Albanese was rather less firm on the rights of Australian journalists to not be physically intimidated, harrassed or blocked on home soil by foreign agents.

The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Association recently appointed as its chair Hugh Woodbury, a man who pleaded guilty to assaulting his pregnant partner.