Flat White

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

China is on the march, but where is it going?

16 December 2022 9:00 am

Re-elected Chairman Xi has (essentially) unlimited power. Addressing his fabricated version of the past and future is one of many…

A predictably dire diversity hire

16 December 2022 8:00 am

Sam Brinton, a ‘non-binary’ nuclear official in Biden’s Department of Energy, has been charged with felony theft after allegedly stealing…

Divisive Victoria: promotes Islam, shuns Christianity

16 December 2022 4:00 am

As the wave of protests continue across Iran three months after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian…

Cookin’ with gas...?

15 December 2022 11:54 am

Imagine an economy run by Anthony Albanese and Adam Bandt, with expert advice from Chris Bowen. Guess what? You’re in…

Iran copies Trudeau and moves to freeze bank accounts

15 December 2022 9:00 am

Dissenters opposing Iran’s hardline hijab mandate face having their bank accounts frozen, prison, or worse, if they fail to comply…

The sovereignty of technocrats and rule of lawyers

15 December 2022 7:00 am

It began when the lawns atop Parliament House were fenced off. The whole point of the design of Parliament House was…

The right to die

15 December 2022 4:00 am

Suicide was once illegal, and failed attempts frequently led to prosecution. In Medieval England, suicides were denied a Christian burial.…

Vatican offers the keys of the kingdom of heaven to Xi Jinping

14 December 2022 2:33 pm

The Vatican recently released a statement about China. It said nothing about the persecution of Christians and other believers, the…

Lying, deceit, and prevarication throughout our New Zealand politburo

14 December 2022 10:00 am

On this side of the Tasman, the circumstances relating to the ramming through Parliament under urgency of the now misnamed…

Energy collapse: it all begins with a market cap

14 December 2022 8:00 am

Thousands of years of experience – from the ancient Babylonians and Roman Emperor Diocletian, through to modern times – have…

Ben Falconer to appeal mandatory vaccination decision

14 December 2022 7:00 am

Spectator Australia readers will recall an application for judicial review of the mandatory vaccination orders in Western Australia in that…

There is nothing ‘smart’ about surveillance cities

14 December 2022 4:00 am

On December 3, Jo Nova penned an article, Climate lockdowns coming? You will be tracked in your suburb and happy about…

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered

13 December 2022 12:31 pm

In the novel Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi gave a heart-wrenching account of her experience as an English teacher in the…

Western Australia’s conversion therapy ban

13 December 2022 8:00 am

A media statement made by the McGowan government on December 1, indicates the Labor-majority government is set to introduce a bill…

What I learnt from an Aboriginal Elder

13 December 2022 4:00 am

Recently, I sat down to interview an Aboriginal Elder from South Australia for the ExCandidates podcast, of which I am…

NSW Liberals: party democracy must be honoured

12 December 2022 3:23 pm

If you thought the factional war that tore apart the NSW Liberal Party on the eve of the recent federal…

Albo’s gas cap folly

12 December 2022 10:00 am

If the threat of gas rationing and blackouts on the first day of winter this year taught us anything it…

Pandora’s box of genes: Orwell’s DNA databases

12 December 2022 9:00 am

Earlier this year in July, one of Australia’s enduring mysteries – the Somerton Man – was solved. It was the story of…

Twitter’s smoking gun

12 December 2022 7:00 am

The latest batch of Twitter Files have dropped, and boy are they a doozy. Yet again, the conspiracy theorists have…

Rewiring the nation

12 December 2022 4:00 am

Mr Malinauskas, Premier of the Australian colony of South Australia, let slip in recent times that he believed there should…

Entering a new Dark Age

11 December 2022 9:00 am

‘Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.’ – Heinrich Heine History has always been problematic for tyrants.…

The Nanny State Awards

11 December 2022 7:00 am

This year’s highly un-coveted Nanny State Award was a tight contest, with a horde of strong contenders from around the…

There are no degrees of innocence

11 December 2022 5:00 am

The golden thread rule running through criminal law in our common law system is that a person accused of a…

Elton John’s Twitter curtain call

10 December 2022 3:04 pm

Elton John has quit twitter. The iconic singer/songwriter advised his 1.1 million followers on Twitter early this morning: ‘All my…

Why we never win

10 December 2022 9:00 am

Unless there is major ideological and structural reform, the future for the Liberals and the broad centre-right is bleak