Flat White

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

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…

Energising the Liberals

27 October 2023 4:00 am

The Liberal Party’s energy policies lack clarity, making them ill-suited to take to the next federal election (due by mid-2025).…

Occupation justifies murder…?

27 October 2023 12:47 am

Dominating the news headlines this week on the Israel-Hamas war have been the calls for a ceasefire and for humanitarian…

Ukraine’s draft church ban: breach of religious freedom?

26 October 2023 10:54 pm

The Ukrainian parliament’s cautious nod of approval for bill 8371 banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) breaches religious freedom. Approval was tentatively…

Parliament votes for more fatherless children

26 October 2023 3:28 pm

October 19 was a dark day in Australia’s social history after our Parliament voted for more fatherless children… Labor’s draconian…

Albo gives EV drivers a free ride

26 October 2023 12:14 am

It is no secret that federal fuel excise revenues have been in decline for years, and something needs to be…

Immigration and the fires of separatism

25 October 2023 11:00 pm

We have seen abhorrent scenes in my home state of New South Wales. It has been thoroughly disappointing, but sadly,…

Zoo life with Tanya Plibersek

25 October 2023 9:16 am

We’re going to call it the ‘Jurassic Park Approach’. When faced with the potential extinction of a critically endangered ancient…

Refusing to label terror in the name of ‘neutrality’

25 October 2023 4:30 am

No one has ever accused me of being an over-zealous defender of Joe Biden. Not that anyone would have been…

Digital trust on trial

25 October 2023 4:00 am

Banking on your biometrics. The controversy surrounding corporate-dictated digital identification

Fight them on the speeches! Why the FSU is needed in Australia

25 October 2023 1:52 am

There is a view that is common amongst the sceptics of cancel culture, that it is merely a battle between elites and…

It is still called genocide

24 October 2023 2:57 pm

Trick question 1: What is the main difference between the Nazis and Hamas terrorists? Answer: Gas chambers. Trick question 2: What is…

Is multiculturalism failing?

24 October 2023 1:41 pm

In March 2022, Declan Cutler, a working-class 16-year-old, died after being stabbed over 50 times by a ‘gang of teenagers’ in…

Chasing idiocy: how subsidies power our energy price hikes

24 October 2023 4:30 am

If we looked at the picture for Australia in the mid-90s, the electricity industry was massively overstaffed and the gas…

Labor’s revolutionary agenda to destroy Australia

24 October 2023 4:00 am

With the Voice Referendum ‘done’, it’s now both possible and necessary to recognise and understand the broader ‘revolutionary’ agenda that…

A tinderbox of incompetence

24 October 2023 3:00 am

For a decade, the Victorian government-owned forestry controller VicForests has been a tinderbox of incompetence looking for a match. Gifted…

Nasty weather: renewable energy poses a national security threat

24 October 2023 1:09 am

The least efficient way to handle energy is to store it. Imagine a bucket with a mosquito net for a…

We have a big problem

23 October 2023 4:00 am

The tantrum of the ‘Yes’ campaign and its supporters following their referendum loss is symptomatic of a class of people…

Crisis of soul: moral relativism and the modern university

23 October 2023 3:30 am

Alan Bloom, perhaps modern education’s greatest post-war critic, wrote presciently on Western elites’ decaying moral and intellectual fibre. Bloom’s 1987…

The madness of Net Zero

23 October 2023 3:00 am

How crazy has the world become? What we are watching is the most insane delusion faced by humankind. To believe…

The Age of Audits

23 October 2023 12:23 am

Australians are being ripped off, and they know it. The stench of bureaucratic waste has been seeping out of Canberra…

Time to punish the Big End of town?

22 October 2023 5:51 pm

Australia’s Big End of Town gambled heavily in the Voice Cup. They lost. Only the Nanny ‘State’ (Canberra) voted ‘Yes’,…

Our enemy, the government

22 October 2023 12:06 pm

The years of living with increasingly oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny…