So the economic narrative of the Turnbull Government has come to this. A ‘tax and spend’ Budget that is more…

So much can be said about the 2017-18 federal budget — little of it complimentary — it’s hard to know…

Well-informed Flat White readers will be aware of the two abortion bills before the NSW Parliament, and the remarkable petitioning effort against it…

One of the delicious ironies of politics is the tendency for one side to admonish the other side for doing…

I’ve been lamenting that for too long we’ve had no sensible centre in Australian politics, effectively ceding the political debate…

Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull have been far too clever by half with year’s budget. Yes, they’ve moved to blunt…

Have a look at how much money the ABC gets in tonight’s budget, but before you do have a look…

Language constantly evolves to match the evolving society. Words get old and become obsolete, new words come in to enrich…

Sometimes former Labor leaders become libertarians. This is how we’ve started the week, with Mark Latham joining the Liberal Democrats…

The federal budget comes out this evening and, in what can heart-warmingly be described as a bipartisan tradition, the ‘heroes’…

It is said that true strength is shown in how you dust yourself off after setbacks and keep going. Take…

Anyone looking at the experience in Canada since euthanasia and assisted suicide laws came into force last year, should be…

On a crisp Canberra autumn morning last week scientists and technical experts from the CSIRO, the University of New South…

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. All the powers of Atlanticist Europe have entered…

Occasionally a politician proposes something so mind-bogglingly extreme and dangerous that it’s hard to fully believe they’re actually being serious.…

It has become a sort of trump card in debates over 18C for its defenders to ask its critics what…

If there’s one thing government enjoys more than taking your money, it’s finding a convenient excuse to do it. With…

Imagine if your boss called you into their office to tell you they had decided who you could bank with.…

By now, I’m sure you would’ve heard the news that the Victorian Andrews government is backing a brand new “feminist…

Liberty Victoria’s decision to reward Gillian Triggs with its annual Voltaire Award is a perfect example of the left’s perverse…

Fairfax journalists are — gosh, how retro — out on strike for a week over job cuts. They’ve taken to…

Anyone who’s ever stepped out onto a crossing with the green light and come within a hair’s breadth of being…

In a stunning political move, the government seized the Gonski high-ground yesterday by announcing Gonski 2.0, another review into how…

Since ‘fake-news’ is all the rage these days it seems only appropriate that there’s a strange law on the books…

Thank heavens for Tony Abbott. Did we ever think we’d be saying that? Questionable. On Monday he spoke out to…