Flat White

In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

The politics of hunger

1 April 2023 9:00 am

Starvation has ended more than one political empire. The pages of human history are frequently chaptered by acute moments of…

The green foods time bomb

1 April 2023 7:00 am

Green propagandists continue to inflict lethal damage to our electricity industry – it has become unreliable and expensive. Their intrusive…

The death of New Zealand’s MSM

1 April 2023 5:00 am

Until recently I was a member of the mainstream media in New Zealand. A proud member. I have loved being…

Greenflation: heating the economy to cool the planet

1 April 2023 4:00 am

Nowadays, it’s almost impossible to miss the bombardment of virtuous sentiment surrounding climate change. We’re constantly told by the 21st…

Have we militarised medicine?

31 March 2023 4:45 pm

It’s war, Jim, but not as we know it… ‘In the absence of information, we make up stories.’ These words…

Any Swastika ban must include the Hammer and Sickle

31 March 2023 5:30 am

As the Australian Federal government contemplates the prohibition of the Swastika, it is crucial to address the inherent tension between…

Let teachers teach

31 March 2023 5:00 am

As recent footage of a teacher losing control of a New South Wales classroom received widespread coverage in the media,…

The Xi-Putin Moscow Summit: did we learn anything?

31 March 2023 4:30 am

Xi’s recent three-day visit with Putin in Moscow brought with it several takeaways. China and Russia are deepening their relationship…

Alan Jones: the Liberal legacy is catastrophic defeat

31 March 2023 4:00 am

One thing is for certain coming out of the New South Wales election last Saturday. Just as the mainstream media,…

Submarines for landlubbers

30 March 2023 1:53 pm

Submarines, despite recent ill-informed comments from ex-Prime Minister Paul Keating, are currently a very expensive, ‘must have’, item in the…

The ugly side of activism

30 March 2023 7:00 am

J. Mitchell Sances’ recent article about ‘gay erasure’ on the political left says much about what advocacy organisations tend to become…

Mandatory testing for $15 smoke alarms, but not cyber security plans?

30 March 2023 6:00 am

In the wake of Australia’s latest customer data exfiltration attack affecting possibly 14 million Latitude stakeholders, we read that the rate…

Hypocrisy on steroids

30 March 2023 4:00 am

Former UK Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption argued from near the start of the Covid pandemic that what democratic governments…

The eunuch premier

29 March 2023 11:00 am

The Eunuch Premier is no more. On Saturday last, the Liberals’ fourth NSW Premier in twelve years was dispatched from…

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…

Aukus is out of the bag

29 March 2023 7:00 am

Aukus is out of the bag. The Albanese government has committed Australia to spend nearly $370 billion over the next…

Blame politicians, not teachers

29 March 2023 6:00 am

Our political elite are to blame for our educational malaise, not our educators… At the start of another academic year,…

Free power for the … rich?

29 March 2023 5:00 am

Last year Mitcham Council, in the leafy south-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, declared a climate emergency. They proudly announced that they were…

Cultural domination: why the left is obsessed with shouting ‘Nazi’!

29 March 2023 4:00 am

Some of you may know 16th century poet, John Donne, whose famous body of work, The Holy Sonnets, explored a crippling…

A backdoor revolution?

28 March 2023 6:00 am

‘Albanese is convinced the Voice will pass,’ writes Dennis Shanahan in The Australian. If so, the consequential conclusion of the…

The unsafe Safeguard Mechanism

28 March 2023 6:00 am

And so, the Greens have joined the ALP in imposing additional carbon taxes on the top 215 greenhouse gas emitting…

The Liberal Party and its lost cause for liberalism

28 March 2023 5:00 am

Another nail in the coffin for the Liberal Party. What a travesty that we have lost New South Wales, too,…

False flags: Deeming, Pesutto, and the absurdity of Woketoria

28 March 2023 4:00 am

A trans flag flies out the front of the Victorian Parliament, proudly announcing that we have no meaningful political opposition in…

A diet of political insects

27 March 2023 11:42 am

Speccie Editor Rowan Dean has already described the New South Wales election perfectly in this morning’s leading article. His remarks must…

The psychology of moral evasion

27 March 2023 7:00 am

I heard the term ‘severe climate anxiety’ again today. It was reportedly used as a defence to help someone achieve…