Flat White

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

The re-write of Australia: straight out of the Marxist-Leninist handbook

25 August 2023 4:30 am

Isn’t it about time we start demanding of our taxpayer media why they are subtly driving the Aboriginalisation of this…

Spinning the myth of Global Warming for corporate gain

25 August 2023 4:00 am

Although in 2011, the Commonwealth Budget papers compiled all the measures that were being implemented to foster renewable energy, that…

Socialists have made the left deaf to reason

24 August 2023 6:30 am

There may be a reason why Anthony Albanese and his ministers do not answer questions about their signature policies, even…

The Voice’s power play

24 August 2023 5:30 am

Later this year, Australians will be asked to vote in a referendum to add a new chapter to the Australian…

Douglas Murray bells the cat

24 August 2023 5:00 am

People are starting to wake up to not only The Voice, but the philosophical reasoning behind it, which is ironically,…

Date set for Falconer appeal on mandatory vaccination orders 

24 August 2023 4:00 am

Spectator Australia readers will recall Senior Constable Ben Falconer lost his challenge to the mandatory vaccination orders of the Chief Health…

The Woke can’t handle Queen: Fat Bottomed Girls axed from album

23 August 2023 12:20 pm

Only yesterday, I was reading about the website Worth it or Woke created by cinephile James Carrick, whose mission is to…

Exposing egos: unravelling ISP and GenCost

23 August 2023 6:00 am

Occasionally in our ordinary lives we come across a genuine David and Goliath narrative. Picture a staunch consumer successfully defending…

The woke desire to ‘get Trump at all costs’

23 August 2023 5:00 am

The fourth indictment against Donald Trump is what I like to call ‘Woke bigotry weaponising bankruptcy’. Of the people sucked into ‘get…

The spatiotemporal source of our culture war confusion

23 August 2023 4:30 am

There is a growing movement of intellectuals pushing the belief that consciousness is all around us. It’s not a new idea,…

Australia’s ideologically-driven energy crisis

23 August 2023 4:00 am

Labor’s energy policy won’t reduce our energy bills by $275 in 2025. When questioned about this promise in 2021, Prime…

LGBTQ+ activist tribe declares war on conservatives

22 August 2023 5:30 am

In May of this year, Binary advocate, Kirralie Smith, was served with two applications for APVOs (apprehension personal violence orders) and two…

Banking is a human right: can a people’s bank save us from ESG madness?

22 August 2023 5:00 am

Australia has a problem. The financial security of the nation’s citizens dangles on the threads of ‘social virtue’ spun out…

Albonocchio: Albanese struggles with truth-telling

22 August 2023 4:30 am

Anthony Albanese seems to be struggling with the concept of truth-telling, at least when it comes to the topic of…

Rowan Dean: Government doesn’t work and can’t close ‘the gap’

22 August 2023 4:00 am

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may not have had time to read the fine print of the Uluru Statement from the…

No more cheques in the mail

21 August 2023 6:00 am

Ever had the experience of a service provider sending you an email with the message: ‘Our records show your invoice…

Net Zero is a revolutionary idea, but not all revolutions are a good idea

21 August 2023 6:00 am

There is a saying that revolutionary ideas are first heretical, then they become interesting and controversial, until suddenly they are…

Affirmative consent: a seductive ‘maybe’ no longer means ‘yes’

21 August 2023 5:30 am

Warren Buffett once got into trouble with a joke that touched on the matter of sexual consent. He was lucky…

Indigenous bureaucracies keep the gap alive

21 August 2023 4:30 am

While reading Thomas Mayo and Kerry O’Brien’s The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the detail you need, I was reminded of…

Matildas wouldn’t stand a chance against men

20 August 2023 6:00 am

Melbournians stuck in traffic on the frequently congested Punt Road would have seen an exciting billboard last week. ‘Fair Sport for…

The widening gap of medical knowledge

20 August 2023 5:00 am

No experience is wasted if we learn from it, and in the time of Covid many of us were pushed…

The Voice must make a conservative case to win

20 August 2023 4:00 am

The proliferation of Vote ‘Yes’ shirts on the university campus, bumper stickers, and YouTube campaigns where the speaker is sped…

Italy’s bill to reject synthetic food passes Senate

20 August 2023 3:07 am

In early 2021, Microsoft’s Bill Gates engaged in various speaking events for his book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. It…

Voting ‘Yes’ for ‘designated’ jobs

19 August 2023 5:00 am

On the bus in Drummoyne, Sydney, an obvious granddad with his cherubic grandson, who cheerfully ignores all worried cautions in…

Make vaccines safe again (and manufacturers liable)

19 August 2023 4:00 am

Will making manufacturers liable for their products lift standards? During the pandemic, it is my belief that powerful international organisations…