Flat White

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

The Gilead crusade?

26 July 2018 8:01 pm

Reverend Dr Michael Bird of Ridley College, Melbourne, is an accomplished author for The Spectator Australia as well as academically…

Oh my darling Clementine!

26 July 2018 4:34 pm

It seems to have been finalised rather quickly, but a deal has been struck that merges Nine and Fairfax. There…

Fairfax goes whinging to the grave, entirely lacking self-awareness

26 July 2018 1:36 pm

Yes, it’s sad. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age were great newspapers in their day. They did not just…

The last straw

26 July 2018 12:09 pm

Everyone seems to be banning the plastic non-fantastic these days in the newest example of the environmental theatre that makes the…

No hyphenation please, we’re Australian

26 July 2018 9:45 am

Australia definitely benefits from learning from other societies and applying international best practices. But the grass is not always greener…

A Muslim, the alt-right – and Israel

25 July 2018 8:11 pm

Of course I was anxious about being a Muslim visiting Israel. My passport stated my birthplace as Bangladesh and there…

“Perhaps even more unsettling…”

25 July 2018 4:15 pm

Barry Humphries gave an interview to this august journal just last week where he had some unkind things to say…

Downer, the Democrats and the Donald

25 July 2018 1:37 pm

It can be difficult for us Australians at this distance to understand the Democratic Party’s obsession with Donald Trump; especially…

Things go better with God

25 July 2018 12:14 pm

If I said to you that research suggests Greens voters recycle more than the average Australian, would you be surprised?…

Dear Obama, please sit down and join Clinton

25 July 2018 8:11 am

Anyone who thinks the Tony Abbott is the worst recurring nightmare to a new leader should take a look stateside.…

Their really unbiased ABC

24 July 2018 7:58 pm

Paul Bongiorno writes for Saturday as well as being an ABC Radio National commentator on politics and cultural affairs. Very…

I only buy it to line the budgie cage…

24 July 2018 6:29 pm

We live in an era where journalism has been traduced by its practitioners to such a degree nothing should surprise…

Plain packaging a graphic study in failure

24 July 2018 1:27 pm

Twelve years since they were introduced and nearly six years since branding and logos were removed from cigarette packets, we…

Science ain’t all that

24 July 2018 7:56 am

Hey, I like science just as much as the next guy. But I recognise that science has its limits. While…

Doing God

23 July 2018 6:02 pm

It was interesting to learn from Greg Sheridan in The Weekend Australian that there are some religious people in the Parliament.…

Free speech now carries a hefty price tag

23 July 2018 11:01 am

What happened to Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux in Melbourne over the weekend is a potent example of how free…

It’s all child’s play for Sarah Hanson-Young

22 July 2018 8:38 pm

Bad move SHY, bad move. Sarah Hanson-Young decided it would be a good idea to put her 11-year-old daughter on…

They still have to eat their broccoli, but are free to choose their sex

22 July 2018 4:54 pm

Exciting news on the gender front. NBC News discovers a new trend: Shhhhhh, I’ll let you in on a little secret:…

Post-modern conservatism? Yes, it’s a thing

22 July 2018 12:04 pm

The other day I was notified about a recent Spectator Australia article by Andrew Urban mocking a recent piece I…

The Big Public Health donkeys

21 July 2018 2:24 pm

Public health Pooh-Bah bullies are at it again. With the Victorian and federal elections heaving into sight, this week a…

The NSW Liberals destroy themselves along with the nation

20 July 2018 7:53 pm

Well done, New South Wales Liberals, well done. You weren’t content with sentencing the people of NSW to years under…

Immigration: the issue that won’t go away

20 July 2018 4:10 pm

With Australia’s population set to hurtle past the 25 million mark in August – decades earlier than predicted – there…

A new front for the left’s war on effort and achievement

20 July 2018 3:13 pm

Selective public schools across the country have again come under fire for their success as opponents claim they inflict ‘brain…

Thank you, Ms Ford – if you’ve finished

20 July 2018 11:31 am

For feminists like Clementine Ford, it seems that absolutely everything is about gender, even when the evidence tells a different…

Annastacia Palaszczuk and the merchants of death

20 July 2018 7:43 am

In 2016-7 former Labor MP and independent Rob Pyne proposed radical liberalisation of Queensland’s abortion laws as a private member’s…