Flat White

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

Being nasty to Nigel

1 July 2023 3:35 pm

The UK’s born-to-rule class of hedge fund managers, politicians, bureaucrats, CEOs, and old-money have never forgiven the former Member of…

The failure of forced transition despite public lust for green energy

1 July 2023 8:21 am

Throughout history, interactions of supply and demand have driven ‘transitions’ – think horses to cars and trains; whale oil to…

Big government, jobs, and productivity

1 July 2023 8:08 am

My mum arrived in Australia with the first boatload of second world war refugees at the end of 1947. She…

Extraction 2: action goes old school

1 July 2023 7:59 am

One of the biggest surprises in recent years is Extraction. A no-nonsense, adrenaline-fuelled action movie about a tough soldier ploughing his…

Affirmative action is dead in US universities

1 July 2023 7:44 am

Universities in the US, by law, will no longer be allowed to discriminate to allow access to college education based…

The governing orthodoxy or the truth?

30 June 2023 5:30 am

No, look, seriously, what do you say to a Labor government that plans to fine companies billions of dollars for…

Make Australian politics great again

30 June 2023 5:00 am

Spectator Australia writer, and now-elected Member of the NSW Legislative Council, the Hon. John Ruddick, has given his maiden speech. Mr…

Children and dementia patients next for ACT euthanasia laws

30 June 2023 4:00 am

It is no wonder the ACT government wants to take over the Catholic-run Calvary Hospital. Faithful Catholics are one of…

Labor’s Censorship Bill a threat to democracy

29 June 2023 2:00 pm

Who do you trust to determine what is true and what is false? To determine which news and opinion is…

Palaszczuk denies claim Brisbane will be renamed

29 June 2023 1:23 pm

Social media went crazy yesterday afternoon when 4BC host Peter Gleeson casually mentioned that there were plots afoot to change…

Meet the Australian women making a stand for free speech

29 June 2023 6:00 am

Some of Australia’s best emerging female leaders gathered in New South Wales last Thursday to formally protest the trans takeover…

Progressives target progress in their unholy war

29 June 2023 5:00 am

A grassroots movement was once a significant thing. It fought to right injustices that had gone unchallenged for too long.…

The new ‘er guizi’

29 June 2023 4:00 am

During the dark years of Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, when Stanley Village was an internment camp for British nationals…

Character, not category

28 June 2023 5:30 am

We have lost ground on what good character means. It is because it has become harder and harder to know…

The abuse of a puppet President

28 June 2023 5:00 am

Elder abuse is any act within a relationship of trust which results in harm to an older person. It can be…

Predators and parasites prowl the Bowen Basin 

28 June 2023 4:30 am

After our great adventure helping Utah Development Co locate and measure their magnificent coal resources along the western edge of…

Fatal attraction: the trans trend and ESG cage

28 June 2023 4:00 am

If you had recently awoken from a decade-long coma and jumped online you’d think you were still in a dreamscape.…

Parental rights or hateful extremism?

27 June 2023 5:30 am

They are ‘hard-right, anti-government’ bogey-men threatening the lives of the LGBTQ+ and ‘democracy’! Or so went the general exclamation of…

Hear my voice

27 June 2023 5:00 am

As the third-generation progeny of settlers who came to Australia and settled on the then-dry plains of the Riverina from…

Forgetting the forgotten

27 June 2023 4:30 am

For a few days now, I have been thinking about the following sentences: ‘I do not believe that the real…

‘The Woke-ass punks who run NYC are afraid of pizza?’

27 June 2023 4:08 am

If you wanted a political movement to succeed, the very last thing you’d do is wage war against pizza. You…

Gender fluidity laws: signposting the decline of Western Civilisation

27 June 2023 4:00 am

Lindsy Danzinger recently published a sobering, yet disturbing, commentary in The Epoch Times about an encounter of her mother with a naked…

Double Shot Ep8: Augusto Zimmermann on the rise of the eco-cult

26 June 2023 12:43 pm

Augusto Zimmermann explains the current religious dimension of environmentalism that has taken over the Net Zero movement. Click below to…

The sex that dare not speak its name

26 June 2023 6:00 am

Who would have thought there would come a time in human history when educated adults could not answer a simple…

Second term government, third term problems

26 June 2023 5:40 am

They say a new broom sweeps clean, and that is certainly the case with the premiership of Prime Minister Chris…