Flat White

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

A Church without a purpose will be no Church at all

22 February 2023 6:00 am

The Church of England, it seems, is hellbent on destroying itself from the inside out. Of the many objectionable suggestions…

Who will bat for the battler?

22 February 2023 5:30 am

‘It’s not a house… it’s a home…’ Darryl Kerrigan, The Castle. It was the mid-1990s, economically, the hard times induced by…

Backsliding on Democracy: New Zealand knows it well

22 February 2023 5:00 am

Australia beware, rent-seeking is a term you may have to look up if your life path has yet to cross…

Alan Jones: what is the real Perrottet government about?

22 February 2023 4:00 am

On many occasions, I have sought to alert voters in New South Wales to the extraordinary and reckless economic management…

One-legged seagull: the cult of victimhood

21 February 2023 3:16 pm

There is a hardwood pier stretching out into the protected harbour where I live, styled to resemble a vintage port.…

Needle spiking haunts the land

21 February 2023 2:28 pm

I have recently read dozens of news reports on the peril of ‘spiking’ whereby young women are rendered near-unconscious by…

Enough! No more big government

21 February 2023 11:00 am

It should come as no surprise that the globalists have enjoyed another Summit to discuss their agenda for world domination.…

Holding parents responsible for youth crime

21 February 2023 5:00 am

Violent youth crime in this nation seems to be on the increase. Recent television footage of children running amok in…

A race-based tax is utterly unjust

21 February 2023 4:30 am

Last month, former Victorian Greens (now Independent) Senator Lidia Thorpe, ‘reiterated the call for Australian property owners to pay a weekly…

Review of anti-discrimination laws puts religious educational institutions under threat

21 February 2023 4:00 am

The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has recently released its consultation paper on the subject of Religious Education Institutions and…

China’s Covid response ‘a miracle in the history of human civilisation’

20 February 2023 4:19 pm

Someone is lying about Covid – we just need to work out who it is… The Chinese Communist Party held onto draconian…

Bourla-von der Leyen text message scandal: EU can’t function without corruption

20 February 2023 5:30 am

Spectator Australia readers will recall the admission by Pfizer executive Janine Small that there was never any testing done to…

Blather, babble, blah – the death throes of ABC TV news

20 February 2023 5:00 am

That ABC TV news is dying is not in dispute. The remaining question is whether to switch off life-support or…

Queensland’s youth crime crisis: cutting through Palaszczuk’s proposals

20 February 2023 4:30 am

Crime doesn’t pay – unless you’re a recidivist youth offender living in Queensland. The fatal Boxing Day stabbing of Emma Lovell,…

Trucking billionaires

20 February 2023 4:00 am

Federal Labor is set to bolster the businesses of trucking billionaires and corporations. Unsurprisingly, the billionaires are more than happy…

Energy starvation: the West goes hungry to keep the lights on

19 February 2023 6:24 pm

Mainstream and government-based publications have been running concerning headlines in recent months regarding food insecurity in Western nations – including…

The poison of ersatz victimhood

19 February 2023 6:00 am

In an interview about his excellent book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, the eminent scholar Thomas Sowell underlined several peoples that…

QLD Police say shooting was an act of ‘Christian terrorism’

19 February 2023 5:00 am

Queensland Police have said the December shooting that resulted in the deaths of two officers and an innocent neighbour was…

Diary of a cooker

19 February 2023 4:00 am

We were in Hobart for the school holidays when I attended my first Freedom Rally on July 24, 2021. It…

Is coal making a comeback? Australian mining’s uphill battle

18 February 2023 12:13 pm

Coal supplies a quarter of the world’s energy, oil and gas account for a half, and renewables – in spite…

Looking back from 2035

18 February 2023 5:00 am

Writing in 2035, it is easy to see what failed the Liberals in the 2020s. But it was not so…

Opinion: First Nations Voice Bill 2023

18 February 2023 4:00 am

Could we risk increased racism as a result of the Voice legislation introduced to South Australian Parliament? Apparently these are…

Irreparably broken? The chaos continues with Indigenous politics

17 February 2023 11:00 am

I recently wrote about our chaotic Federation. One of the three examples I cited was the confused management of ‘Indigenous…

The cope of self-love

17 February 2023 6:00 am

On Valentine’s Day 2023, the number one hit on the pop charts was a song about a woman (Miley Cyrus)…

Tenants vs Landlords – a dystopian future?

17 February 2023 5:30 am

As I travelled from Here-and-now to There-and-how along the Troublesome Track, I passed a new hospital on the outskirts of…