Flat White

A modern-day Odyssey

13 August 2026 1:30 am

Lessons Australia is only now beginning to learn

The curious case of the wrong feelings

13 August 2026 1:00 am

The rise of One Nation is not occurring because millions of Australians have suddenly stopped thinking

WA Parliament should keep the Lord’s Prayer

13 August 2026 12:30 am

It is a solemn symbol of the foundational Judeo-Christian values that made our liberal democracy possible

The One Nation of our discontent

12 August 2026 8:08 pm

The major parties do not grasp how deeply they are hated. That is because the political class is not merely out of touch. It lives in a different world...

Strategy of the pro-Australia parties to the next election

12 August 2026 6:53 pm

If they cannot say something good about One Nation, they should say nothing at all

Iran containment has failed; Europe must enable the transition

12 August 2026 4:49 pm

A democratic and secular Iran would remove one of the main drivers of regional instability and mass migration into Europe

International Law and the immigration game

12 August 2026 4:33 pm

The ‘Views of Hosts’ were a list of regulations made by a statute of 1439 which required that money made…

A mostly cynical, mushroom-cloud-shaped message to Moscow

12 August 2026 3:47 pm

Was the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary to end the war?

Patriotism: the last default

12 August 2026 2:48 pm

The nation is the only institution Australians are still born into. Do they value it enough?

Census: a question of religion

11 August 2026 9:01 pm

If we are going to spend three quarters of a billion dollars counting the country, we might at least count it properly

The de-Christianisation of the nation

11 August 2026 5:08 pm

Christianity is in decline, not just in Australia, but throughout the Western world

Should Australia care where migrants spend their money?

11 August 2026 4:18 pm

Many skilled migrants, especially from lower-income countries, send discretionary income overseas

Identity politics is the root cause of Albo’s success

11 August 2026 3:53 pm

And it might just be the greatest challenge to our liberal democracy

Australia’s doctors need their Kory moment

10 August 2026 6:41 pm

We have seen the regulation of opinion, enforced through the livelihoods of the one profession whose candour patients depend upon most.

Why did it take the ABC 25 days to say ‘sorry’ for torture fantasy?

10 August 2026 4:48 pm

For nearly a month, the ABC’s leadership sat in silence while the video remained live on their platforms. They moved only when the lawyers moved.

Before we say Amen to change

10 August 2026 11:19 am

Western Australia’s Parliament considers removing the Lord’s Prayer from the Legislative Assembly

How times have changed for uranium exporters

10 August 2026 12:00 am

The Whitlam government established the Fox Inquiry in 1975. Two reports were released in the following year. One recommended that…

A resurrection in bad faith

9 August 2026 7:41 pm

Tim Wilson is back on the frontbench. The Liberal creed is not, and the One Nation voter can tell the difference...

If you think AI is a fait accompli…

9 August 2026 7:04 pm

AI is not a software update. It is an industrial process of extraordinary energy intensity which Australia might not be able to provide...

Why you shouldn’t shrug at New Zealand’s greyhound racing ban

9 August 2026 5:22 pm

The significance of New Zealand’s ban extends far beyond the racetrack, perhaps even all the way to the family pet

Has Holocaust memory lost its moral compass?

9 August 2026 11:50 am

There are places where history should impose a particular seriousness upon us. Mauthausen is one of them. A concentration camp…

Labor is not building anything. They are tearing society apart…

8 August 2026 11:40 pm

Human society is different from other animal societies because of humanity’s most important idea: legitimate government. Before the beginnings of…

The word-bankers

8 August 2026 11:13 pm

Increasingly, the establishment in its various guises has stopped fighting over what to do and instead chooses to fight over who owns which words

They knew. They published it. They mandated anyway…

8 August 2026 2:36 pm

Australia’s pandemic alibi is ‘nobody could have known’. The proportionality test was in the statute. The safety caveat was on the regulator’s own website.

The A-Bombs were necessary, and the most merciful option

7 August 2026 5:56 pm

As the anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks in 1945 arrives, many commentators will argue they should never have been…