Flat White

There is no such thing as a ‘safe’ injecting room

2 May 2023 4:30 am

The Victorian Greens are introducing a bill to open the doors of government-run injecting rooms to pregnant women and children.…

Louder, Crowder?

30 April 2023 5:00 am

I have never been a fan of bringing the personal lives of politicians or media commentators into the public forum.…

Does Tucker Carlson’s departure signal a leftward march?

28 April 2023 5:37 pm

Viewers have long complained that media outlets are drifting to the Left, chasing ‘Woke’ advertising dollars, political relationships, and lucrative…

Fox News is all Tuckered out

25 April 2023 2:21 pm

Perhaps it is surprising – perhaps not? – that one week after Fox News settled its alarming defamation lawsuit with Dominion, the…

Barry Humphries and his Dame

23 April 2023 3:40 am

Several years ago, I found one of my parents doubled over in laughter – barely containing their brimming tears and…

Matt Walsh unmasks the vicious Left

22 April 2023 11:54 am

Online activists are the new revolutionaries and, as with their historical counterparts, they are becoming radicalised and violent in pursuit…

Lick the world

17 April 2023 7:30 am

US President Joe Biden has come up with some shockingly garbled speech moments in his short time as leader of…

Bud Light backs down (almost): are brands learning their lesson?

15 April 2023 6:48 pm

(Formerly?) popular beer brand Bud Light has suffered a major thrashing in the public forum since engaging trans social media…

Flat broke: Dan Andrews has run out of other ‘other’ people’s money

12 April 2023 7:30 am

Everybody knows that Labor governments are rubbish with money. They sit around for years, spearing holes in the bottom of…

Dutton’s first victory: Julian Leeser moves to the backbench

11 April 2023 3:26 pm

The Liberal Party’s Shadow Indigenous Australians spokesman and Attorney-General Julian Leeser has defied Dutton’s leadership decision to support the ‘No’…

Our moral panic over AI

9 April 2023 7:00 am

I was born three years after the first Terminator film was released and didn’t see it until I was around seven.…

Wave power creates Net Zero corpses in the sea

8 April 2023 4:00 am

Every year, there is a green fad that claims it’s going to ‘save the world’ with some kind of renewable…

The tragic end of Book Depository

6 April 2023 3:00 pm

The sudden closure of UK-based Book Depository has sent a shiver through the Australian literary scene. As one of Australia’s most…

Ardern’s last speech to Parliament commits her to climate action

5 April 2023 7:40 pm

Remember when Jacinda Ardern said, rather tearfully, ‘I don’t have enough in the tank.’ A sniffle later, the former Prime…

Richard Dawkins committed the cardinal sin

3 April 2023 6:00 am

The West is a theocracy. Not a Christian theocracy – or even an Islamic one – but rather a theocracy…

15 minute cities: burning to the ground

29 March 2023 8:00 am

Are this century’s ideological peasants finally revolting? It certainly seems that way after residents set fire to road block ‘planters’ which…

Victoria needs Voltaire

27 March 2023 4:30 am

So modern and fabulous we think we are… But it was the French philosopher of the Enlightenment period, Voltaire, who…

Social media: radicalising the West into the climate cult?

24 March 2023 7:00 am

Facebook users are aware of the suffocating control the platform exerted over the Covid narrative. The Silicon Valley giant became…

Labor’s Net Zero dream left in the car park

22 March 2023 7:30 am

Nothing describes Net Zero better than Labor’s campaign ‘e-bus’ sitting dead on arrival in front of reporters after suffering a…

To win, the Liberals must destroy the climate cult

19 March 2023 5:30 pm

Scrolling through Instragram, I came across a likable North Shore member running for the New South Wales state election. He’s…

OnlyFans: the last stop for Western feminism

18 March 2023 11:45 am

Barely a day goes by without tabloid publications spruiking a ‘good news’ story about some poor, oppressed woman or D-grade…

CLARIFICATION – FLORADA

15 March 2023 11:59 am

On 14 February 2023, The Spectator Australia published an article entitled ‘Covid killed the Roses’ on our Flat White column…

Hopping off into Woke madness: Puma drops kangaroos

14 March 2023 3:02 pm

Sportswear giant Puma has gotten itself into a bungle. To polish its Woke credentials, the company decided to drop its…

Woke rail networks want to save the planet, but they can’t look after their stations

11 March 2023 6:00 am

I was born in Wahroonga. Attended school there. In the decades since, I have lived in and around the little…

Plibersek, stop handing public money to billionaires

2 March 2023 4:00 am

Mining giant and Fortescue Metal executive chairman Andrew Forrest said at a Sydney conference this week: ‘We are fat and…