Flat White

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

Can teaching be politically neutral?

23 February 2023 6:00 am

Are people involved in a spiritual enterprise when they think, and therefore, when they teach? This might seem a far-fetched…

But, is it safe?

23 February 2023 5:00 am

Older readers may remember a TV show on the ABC in the 1970s called The Inventors. It was a bit…

Democracy or minocracy?

23 February 2023 4:00 am

If democracy is defined by majority rule, Australia is not a democracy; it’s a minocracy. The current Labor government attracted…

Oh dear! Vic Libs disenfranchise their own members

22 February 2023 10:51 am

The Victorian division of the Liberal Party has done it again. Instead of going into the April 1, Aston by-election…

A Church without a purpose will be no Church at all

22 February 2023 6:00 am

The Church of England, it seems, is hellbent on destroying itself from the inside out. Of the many objectionable suggestions…

Who will bat for the battler?

22 February 2023 5:30 am

‘It’s not a house… it’s a home…’ Darryl Kerrigan, The Castle. It was the mid-1990s, economically, the hard times induced by…

Backsliding on Democracy: New Zealand knows it well

22 February 2023 5:00 am

Australia beware, rent-seeking is a term you may have to look up if your life path has yet to cross…

Alan Jones: what is the real Perrottet government about?

22 February 2023 4:00 am

On many occasions, I have sought to alert voters in New South Wales to the extraordinary and reckless economic management…

One-legged seagull: the cult of victimhood

21 February 2023 3:16 pm

There is a hardwood pier stretching out into the protected harbour where I live, styled to resemble a vintage port.…

Needle spiking haunts the land

21 February 2023 2:28 pm

I have recently read dozens of news reports on the peril of ‘spiking’ whereby young women are rendered near-unconscious by…

Enough! No more big government

21 February 2023 11:00 am

It should come as no surprise that the globalists have enjoyed another Summit to discuss their agenda for world domination.…

Holding parents responsible for youth crime

21 February 2023 5:00 am

Violent youth crime in this nation seems to be on the increase. Recent television footage of children running amok in…

A race-based tax is utterly unjust

21 February 2023 4:30 am

Last month, former Victorian Greens (now Independent) Senator Lidia Thorpe, ‘reiterated the call for Australian property owners to pay a weekly…

Review of anti-discrimination laws puts religious educational institutions under threat

21 February 2023 4:00 am

The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has recently released its consultation paper on the subject of Religious Education Institutions and…

China’s Covid response ‘a miracle in the history of human civilisation’

20 February 2023 4:19 pm

Someone is lying about Covid – we just need to work out who it is… The Chinese Communist Party held onto draconian…

Bourla-von der Leyen text message scandal: EU can’t function without corruption

20 February 2023 5:30 am

Spectator Australia readers will recall the admission by Pfizer executive Janine Small that there was never any testing done to…

Blather, babble, blah – the death throes of ABC TV news

20 February 2023 5:00 am

That ABC TV news is dying is not in dispute. The remaining question is whether to switch off life-support or…

Queensland’s youth crime crisis: cutting through Palaszczuk’s proposals

20 February 2023 4:30 am

Crime doesn’t pay – unless you’re a recidivist youth offender living in Queensland. The fatal Boxing Day stabbing of Emma Lovell,…

Trucking billionaires

20 February 2023 4:00 am

Federal Labor is set to bolster the businesses of trucking billionaires and corporations. Unsurprisingly, the billionaires are more than happy…

Energy starvation: the West goes hungry to keep the lights on

19 February 2023 6:24 pm

Mainstream and government-based publications have been running concerning headlines in recent months regarding food insecurity in Western nations – including…

The poison of ersatz victimhood

19 February 2023 6:00 am

In an interview about his excellent book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, the eminent scholar Thomas Sowell underlined several peoples that…

QLD Police say shooting was an act of ‘Christian terrorism’

19 February 2023 5:00 am

Queensland Police have said the December shooting that resulted in the deaths of two officers and an innocent neighbour was…

Diary of a cooker

19 February 2023 4:00 am

We were in Hobart for the school holidays when I attended my first Freedom Rally on July 24, 2021. It…

Is coal making a comeback? Australian mining’s uphill battle

18 February 2023 12:13 pm

Coal supplies a quarter of the world’s energy, oil and gas account for a half, and renewables – in spite…

Looking back from 2035

18 February 2023 5:00 am

Writing in 2035, it is easy to see what failed the Liberals in the 2020s. But it was not so…