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Nazi-hunting in Kooyong
Hunting Nazis is hard work so painting Hitler moustaches onto Josh Frydenberg posters does us all a big favor. We’re…
CBD: Anzac, the woke day of the year down in MONAland
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: CBD is usually at best ambivalent toward jingoistic celebrations. CBD’s moral superiority means CBD…
How the Greens don’t get capitalism yet star at self interest
The Greens, it would be fair to say, don’t understand captialism. Equally, it would be approprate to say that advertising…
The end of the world is nigh (and yet again millennials cop it hardest)
The religious impulse must be strongly imprinted in a human psyche indeed. As fewer and fewer people seriously subscribe to…
CBD: welcome to the GULAG – GetUp!, Labor and the Greens
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: It’s now been just over two weeks since SM saw the GG and Election…
Prime Minister, stop praising multiculturalism
‘What do Australia’s founding fathers and cultural diversity have in common? Both celebrate this country’s great multiculturalism’, Scott Morrison believes.…
CBD: KO’s KOs against workplace justice and law boost BS
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: We all want to earn more. What’s more we deserve more. Oh, how CBD…
To our glorious dead, but don’t forget the living
In a different age when navy Fleet Air Arm pilots flew flimsy wood and canvas biplanes, workplace health and safety…
Stand and fight for your ideas
A certain school of thought claims that what ails the centre-right of Australian politics is the failure to embrace a…
Will Labor fears force big business back to workplace reform?
The federal election campaign is underway. We already know the Big Unions will forcefully advocate for industrial relations changes, but…
Patronising the arts
The first of an occasional series by the Flat White team. “The Massachusetts of the south.” That’s how John Howard once…
When you see Bob Brown protesting, usual suspects, it’s Adani
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: CBD admits the stench of naphthalene was overpowering. But when you’ve got no cut…
The AMA’s comic crew get the vapours
Those who have been to Venice have probably witnessed some form of Commedia Dell’arte, an improvised form of comedy where…
Smokin’ Joe Hildebrand: Bible school dropout
In what must surely come close to the modern-day equivalent of having committed career suicide, journalist Joe Hildebrand has converted…
If one scientist was enough for Einstein…
How many scientists do you need to demonstrate to policymakers in words they can understand that CO2 is not a…
CBD: Palmer and Shorten, blood brothers fighting for the workers
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: Recent polling suggesting a surge of newfound popularity for Clive Palmer gives CBD comfort…
Magical mystery tour or highway to hell for Labor’s big red bus?
Pollsters stay at home on long weekends, but anyone watching Bill Shorten’s magical mystery tour on the big red diesel…
Why it’s all too white in Westeros
The old leftie George R R Martin discovers that you can never be woke enough. Because the world of the…
Three myths about equality Labor wants you to believe
Labor leader Bill Shorten is running under the motto — “A Fair Go for Australia” — but is his party…
Backwards & Forwards: happy clappy happy
The week in politics, the week to come: Looking back Scott Morrison and the Coalition won the week. Nothing more…
Notre Dame, Good Friday and Israel Folau
It’s wonderful news that all of a sudden Rugby Union Australia believe in God, Heaven and Hell. Many of us…
Notre Dame and the fate of the West
With the cause of the blaze that took down much of Notre Dame still uncertain (accident, arson, terrorism?), many commentators…
What’s woke this week?
In France, trees have become sentient beings with rights, no less, while in Britain a man self-identifies as a dog.…
Israel Folau and the tyranny of tolerance
Rugby Australia’s attempt to remove Israel Folau from the game is now being presented as nothing more than a matter…
Are you, or have you ever been, a climate sceptic?
Well, it’s official. Australian politicians face a religious test for office. But it doesn’t have anything to do with God.…
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