Flat White

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

Care-share or build-spend?

28 September 2026 7:46 pm

The real trade-off in Australia’s ageing debate. How old will Australia be? How rich? How big? How different?

Australia’s soft launch of authoritarianism

28 September 2026 6:47 pm

Declining freedom and increasing control under Labor

Inside the ‘Elysian’ world of the ABC

28 September 2026 4:13 pm

I might even write a book about it

Dressed to kill

28 September 2026 3:02 pm

Remembering the fashion industry’s dark history

Defiling Asimov’s Laws

27 September 2026 11:59 pm

We are creating AI specifically to kill humans on the battlefield

Albanese is talking to empty rooms

27 September 2026 3:46 pm

Australia went to New York to ask the world for a seat. The world was at dinner...

Gough Whitlam called

27 September 2026 3:22 pm

He wants his economic policies back

The Sydney Sweeney revelation

27 September 2026 3:09 pm

Her body, her choice, their ad campaign

Germany at a crossroads

27 September 2026 11:48 am

Is this the end of the ‘centrist’ era?

If Albanese is a ‘global citizen’, we should Section 44 him

26 September 2026 1:41 pm

There’s always one… Albo is Australia’s (global) village idiot. For proof of this, he received the Atlantic Council Global Citizen…

GLOBALIST IN CHIEF – Albanese accepts his award & Trump cancels ‘Fake News’ Media | S3 Ep 21

26 September 2026 4:00 am

This week… Javier Milei ‘rips the United Nations to shreds’. Albanese’s good little globalist award. Digital Duty of Censorship… I…

Parents are leaving. The law still wants one kind of school

25 September 2026 8:30 pm

Queensland home education has more than tripled. The missing choice are affordable independent schools...

In defence of disagreement

25 September 2026 6:08 pm

What Charlie Kirk can teach us about liberalism

SILENCE OF THE ROYALS – Spencer’s memoir and the death of the last Royal carriage maker | S3 Ep 20

25 September 2026 4:00 am

This week with Professor David Flint. Does the ghost of Princess Diana still pose a threat to King Charles’ legacy?…

The little red man and the unthinking generation

25 September 2026 1:01 am

Every morning I walk through Brisbane’s red light district. Nowhere in Queensland is there such a proliferation of red lights…

The academic pursuit of error

24 September 2026 5:30 pm

Students can’t be taught to think critically if they don’t know anything

The legal case for Reform UK

24 September 2026 12:14 pm

How far should a government be permitted to alter the rules governing the financing of its political opponents?

Vale Gary ‘Angry’ Anderson

24 September 2026 3:07 am

Two bands defined my youth – AC/DC and Rose Tattoo. This week we lost the lead singer of the latter.…

Armageddon and Artificial Intelligence

24 September 2026 2:42 am

Don’t worry, AI is power-hungry, which means we can always pull the plug

Alex Antic: reformer, victor, and future leader

23 September 2026 4:28 pm

Is One Nation (accidentally) helping the South Australian Liberals reform the party?

Why the Lord’s Prayer still matters

23 September 2026 3:48 pm

I am proud to be reading into the Western Australian Parliament a petition initiated by Cáit Folan-Sfakianakis calling for the…

The ‘loose cannons’ of The Spectator Australia

23 September 2026 3:32 pm

Those who went out on their own to fight the culture wars for the survival of conservatism

Two budgets away from fiscal responsibility

23 September 2026 3:17 pm

The Australian economy is not lost yet ... but it might be if we continue with the welfare state

Crisafulli and Check the Science

23 September 2026 3:01 pm

He has refused a minimalistic request to commence audits of science evidence behind environmental regulations that are crucifying farmers and fishermen

Macklemore wants to ‘free Palestine’. Which one?

22 September 2026 12:22 pm

American rapper, Macklemore, is the definition of a modern-day activist idiot. I’m sorry to be so blunt, but it’s true.…