Flat White

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

Union bashing is easy but we want prosperity

30 March 2018 11:49 am

Whenever a problem arises a moment of reflection — or, in reality, a time to criticise and complain — is…

“Life is short but smokers’ lives are shorter. Legalise vaping now.”

29 March 2018 5:49 pm

The much-anticipated House of Representatives committee report on e-cigarettes and personal vaporisers – in other words, vaping – was tabled…

Populate or perish: destroying the village to save it from perishing?

29 March 2018 3:05 pm

Greg Sheridan’s article “Great leaders knew immigration truth: populate or perish” from Saturday’s Weekend Australian assails “the decisive turn by…

Childcare costs? Thank unions and government

29 March 2018 11:45 am

In case you didn’t notice, Tuesday was Keep Your Children Home Day – in other words, a nationwide childcare workers’…

Is Australia funding terrorism?

29 March 2018 7:42 am

In the very last issue of The Spectator Australia David Adler wrote what could well turn out to be a…

Why modern-day feminism is inherently sexist

28 March 2018 4:23 pm

Despite the protest from Magda Szubanski that the golden statuette awarded at the Oscars needs to be more “non-binary”, I…

Anzac Day: the latest victim of green madness

28 March 2018 12:07 pm

Recently, RSL branches in Victoria announced a ban on old-school military vehicles at the state’s ANZAC day parade, supposedly due…

Diversity. Be in it.

27 March 2018 8:56 pm

Here is a modest proposal: practice what you preach. Take multiculturalism. Some of the biggest fans of ethnic and cultural…

Malgorithms

27 March 2018 7:14 pm

There is no disappointment so deep, no betrayal so wounding, as that felt by those who put their faith in…

Ten non-religious reasons against abortion

27 March 2018 12:33 pm

The subject of abortion is once again in the news. And significantly, Brisbane lawyer and incoming Queensland senator Amanda Stoker…

How we shirked our duty to offend

27 March 2018 7:41 am

An axiom attributed to Leonardo da Vinci is that great artists steal. In that vein, I shamelessly steal from Spiked!…

Facebook, fakery and fraud

26 March 2018 7:47 pm

Stay away from a fool, for you will not find knowledge on their lips. The wisdom of the prudent is…

We don’t need a law about that

26 March 2018 5:27 pm

Inevitably, when advocating for freedom of any kind, one is accused of being a champion of certain lifestyle choices or…

Green on the outside, rancid on the inside

26 March 2018 12:36 pm

Illogical, ignorant, infantile, irrational and irrelevant, the Greens are a rancid infestation in Australia’s political kitchen, as they proved recently…

Conservative compassion

26 March 2018 8:19 am

One of the strange quirks of modern politics is the perception that it’s the Left who are concerned with justice…

Santa Sabina school’s “religious revolution”

23 March 2018 12:08 pm

The trousers were the tip of the iceberg at Sydney Catholic girls schools Santa Sabina College. With the trousers down,…

Since when was common sense discrimination?

23 March 2018 7:33 am

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton’s remarks about white South African farmers, including possibly granting them special immigration consideration, evoked charges…

Should Australia engage more with China?

22 March 2018 12:45 pm

We live in an age of unprecedented geopolitical upheaval in the Asia Pacific. The American and Western hegemony in the…

Stephen Hawking and the limits of knowledge

22 March 2018 7:45 am

Stephen Hawking, the physicist and cosmologist who died last week, is now set to have his ashes interred alongside those…

Why we won’t get into ASEAN any time soon

21 March 2018 2:21 pm

Indonesians, especially Jakartans – have a wicked sense of humour. Their biting jokes, fine-tuned by years of authoritarian rule, were…

Mass migration and the weakening of the West

21 March 2018 7:34 am

Douglas Murray’s provocative article in The Weekend Australian ‘Add new migrants and stir carefully’ discusses the challenges of mass migration…

Clothes maketh the wo/man

20 March 2018 8:44 pm

There’s an unofficial competition where I live that mostly teenage girls engage in, as to which school has the worst…

Religious freedom of political communication: a constitutionally protected freedom

20 March 2018 1:23 pm

Now that same-sex marriage has been legalised, there is a further need to recognise the right of religious individuals and…

This isn’t an honour, it’s a circle jerk

20 March 2018 7:48 am

Some of my readers keep asking why I keep writing about the adventures of Yassmin Abdel-Magied. After all, to keep…

Newspeak at UNSW

19 March 2018 7:43 am

I know it’s become hackneyed, overused, and almost now cliché, but the following political slogan—by ‘The Party’— from George Orwell’s…