Flat White

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

Spectacularly wrong on foreign policy

3 November 2023 12:51 am

It isn’t uncommon for foreign policy prognosticators to get things spectacularly wrong. What sets Jake Sullivan apart, in my opinion,…

Konstantin Kisin, ‘We are in the fight of our lives’

2 November 2023 3:25 pm

Stop whatever you’re doing and watch this speech by Konstantin Kisin at the inaugural ARC (The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship)…

Wikipedia at war

2 November 2023 3:51 am

Twenty years ago when I attended university, I was told by lecturers in no uncertain terms that Wikipedia should not…

The problem with green energy is … basic physics

2 November 2023 3:12 am

All green energy generation schemes are dishonest schemes, for various reasons. They all need enormous tax-payer funding to make them…

Centralisation, the Voice, and why the National Curriculum should be abandoned

1 November 2023 5:30 am

Centralised control results in a hierarchy of out-of-touch elites, neglects local agency, and creates unnecessary layers of red tape and…

Green, powerless, and defenceless

1 November 2023 5:00 am

As Net Zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless, and defenceless. History holds lessons that we ignore at…

Sick of Marvel? Watch these instead

1 November 2023 4:30 am

I think it’s safe to say that I’m getting sick of the same old superhero movies. The chances of me…

Toward a new totalitarianism

1 November 2023 4:00 am

There’s no doubt cultural-Marxist-inspired Woke ideology is destroying the best parts of Western Civilisation. Rationality, truth, and a spiritual or…

Airbus Albo has forgotten Alice Springs

31 October 2023 6:10 pm

It is unlikely Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will return to Alice Springs now the referendum is finished and there is…

Raining missiles, reigning lies: flags, ceasefires, and ‘proportionality’

31 October 2023 12:03 pm

The gentle, lispy tones of Tony Burke, Minister for the Arts and Workplace relations in the Albanese government, belie the…

What are the WHO up to this time?

31 October 2023 4:00 am

For most Australians, any distant international bureaucracy seems a world away from their everyday lives. When discussing the WHO (World…

De-banking Nigel Farage: a tale of politics, not commerce

31 October 2023 1:56 am

Documents that further vindicate Nigel Farage’s claim that he was de-banked by Coutts for political, not financial reasons, emerged last…

It’s the mens rea, stupid!

31 October 2023 1:08 am

The young female journalist-cum-activist from the ABC (suffering early onset bias) was asking Amir Maimon, the Israeli Ambassador to Australia,…

Statement from our former Prime Ministers

30 October 2023 10:04 pm

Six former Australian Prime Ministers, notably excluding Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating, have written and signed a two-page letter condemning…

Tearing up over ‘Friends’ lost

30 October 2023 11:26 am

Over the weekend I found myself ‘tearing up’ over the news that Matthew Perry had died, aged not much older…

Fixing potholes is a policy we can all agree on

30 October 2023 4:30 am

On my way to the local tip, my car lurched as I backed out over the naturally occurring drain that…

Do Covid vaccines meet the definition of gene therapy?

30 October 2023 4:00 am

Serious questions are being asked of Australia’s Office of the Gene Technology Regulator

The Bowen delusion

30 October 2023 3:00 am

Both the ALP and the Coalition, ostensibly as a means to reduce national emissions of CO2, espouse wind and solar…

Victoria’s culture police

29 October 2023 9:00 pm

Imagine there is a Colonial Heritage Council funded by the Victorian state government which has been awarded powers to enter…

I’m not going anywhere

29 October 2023 2:28 pm

The other day I found myself in a defiant mood. It’s not my default position, these days. Most often, I…

SARS: a warning about tyrannical health bureaucracies

29 October 2023 12:27 pm

I was reading through Jeremy Clarkson’s The World According to Clarkson – a collection of his Sunday Times columns from way back…

Coastal wind farms: this Sunday, the people say ‘no’ again

29 October 2023 12:00 am

When the first coastal wind farms were announced by Energy Minister Chris Bowen, I thought I was dreaming. Australia has…

The Loophole Bill: 1.2 million self-employed Australians at risk

28 October 2023 3:18 pm

My recent Spectator Australia article, Labor’s revolutionary agenda to destroy Australia, gave an overview of the Albanese government’s Industrial Relations Bill, also…

Australian Catholic Bishops and the referendum

28 October 2023 12:10 pm

In the last few days of the referendum campaign, I was struck by something Warren Mundine said. It went along…

Conflict in Palestine … again – where do you stand?

28 October 2023 2:13 am

As a nation, why is a minority, including some of our elected representatives, condoning pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel rallies? Most Australians are not…