Flat White

Exposing egos: unravelling ISP and GenCost

23 August 2023 6:00 am

Occasionally in our ordinary lives we come across a genuine David and Goliath narrative. Picture a staunch consumer successfully defending…

The woke desire to ‘get Trump at all costs’

23 August 2023 5:00 am

The fourth indictment against Donald Trump is what I like to call ‘Woke bigotry weaponising bankruptcy’. Of the people sucked into ‘get…

The spatiotemporal source of our culture war confusion

23 August 2023 4:30 am

There is a growing movement of intellectuals pushing the belief that consciousness is all around us. It’s not a new idea,…

Australia’s ideologically-driven energy crisis

23 August 2023 4:00 am

Labor’s energy policy won’t reduce our energy bills by $275 in 2025. When questioned about this promise in 2021, Prime…

LGBTQ+ activist tribe declares war on conservatives

22 August 2023 5:30 am

In May of this year, Binary advocate, Kirralie Smith, was served with two applications for APVOs (apprehension personal violence orders) and two…

Banking is a human right: can a people’s bank save us from ESG madness?

22 August 2023 5:00 am

Australia has a problem. The financial security of the nation’s citizens dangles on the threads of ‘social virtue’ spun out…

Albonocchio: Albanese struggles with truth-telling

22 August 2023 4:30 am

Anthony Albanese seems to be struggling with the concept of truth-telling, at least when it comes to the topic of…

Rowan Dean: Government doesn’t work and can’t close ‘the gap’

22 August 2023 4:00 am

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may not have had time to read the fine print of the Uluru Statement from the…

No more cheques in the mail

21 August 2023 6:00 am

Ever had the experience of a service provider sending you an email with the message: ‘Our records show your invoice…

Net Zero is a revolutionary idea, but not all revolutions are a good idea

21 August 2023 6:00 am

There is a saying that revolutionary ideas are first heretical, then they become interesting and controversial, until suddenly they are…

Affirmative consent: a seductive ‘maybe’ no longer means ‘yes’

21 August 2023 5:30 am

Warren Buffett once got into trouble with a joke that touched on the matter of sexual consent. He was lucky…

Indigenous bureaucracies keep the gap alive

21 August 2023 4:30 am

While reading Thomas Mayo and Kerry O’Brien’s The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the detail you need, I was reminded of…

Matildas wouldn’t stand a chance against men

20 August 2023 6:00 am

Melbournians stuck in traffic on the frequently congested Punt Road would have seen an exciting billboard last week. ‘Fair Sport for…

The widening gap of medical knowledge

20 August 2023 5:00 am

No experience is wasted if we learn from it, and in the time of Covid many of us were pushed…

The Voice must make a conservative case to win

20 August 2023 4:00 am

The proliferation of Vote ‘Yes’ shirts on the university campus, bumper stickers, and YouTube campaigns where the speaker is sped…

Voting ‘Yes’ for ‘designated’ jobs

19 August 2023 5:00 am

On the bus in Drummoyne, Sydney, an obvious granddad with his cherubic grandson, who cheerfully ignores all worried cautions in…

Make vaccines safe again (and manufacturers liable)

19 August 2023 4:00 am

Will making manufacturers liable for their products lift standards? During the pandemic, it is my belief that powerful international organisations…

When science becomes a threat to population health

18 August 2023 1:25 pm

‘The medical-political complex tends towards suppression of science to aggrandise and enrich those in power. And, as the powerful become…

Let’s cut to the chase: this Bill is about protecting the ‘settled science’ of ‘global boiling’

18 August 2023 6:00 am

Dear Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), I write regarding the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023.…

With malice towards all, Uluru statement is no Gettysburg address

18 August 2023 5:00 am

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s call for an end to ‘welcome to country’ ceremonies at public events is not racist, it…

Conservatism and the virtue of saying ‘No’

18 August 2023 4:00 am

William F. Buckley said famously that: ‘A conservative is someone who stands athwart history yelling stop! at a time when no…

Can we have that $444 million back?

17 August 2023 1:17 pm

In 2018, the Coalition government gifted $444 million of other people’s money to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. The money…

The death of democracy? Victoria’s hush-hush Indigenous agreements

17 August 2023 6:00 am

Australians are being asked to open their hearts – to be generous – to vote ‘Yes’ to something greater than…

One man’s triumph over Malthusianism

17 August 2023 5:00 am

Let’s gamble. I will bet you $1,000 that in 10 years’ time any five non replenishing commodities of your choosing…

Canberra isn’t listening to Indigenous voices on remote education

17 August 2023 4:00 am

Hypocrisy within government undermines the credibility of policymakers, erodes public trust, wastes precious time, and squanders taxpayer funds. An example…