Flat White

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

Chimeras: the monsters of man

20 March 2023 7:00 am

In 2021, under the cover of Covid, scientists from China, Spain, and America created embryos that shared human and macaque…

The Christian vote is searching for a home

20 March 2023 6:00 am

In this final week of the upcoming NSW State election, there is still much angst amongst Christians on how best…

The Melbourne art scene: diluted mediocrity

20 March 2023 5:00 am

The building is ugly and the inside is confusing. There are people everywhere and you have to look around for…

Australia’s erosion of informed consent and the avoidable death of children

20 March 2023 4:00 am

Deception can be lethal. The last three years of Covid have taught us that. Adding to the pile of disconcerting…

To win, the Liberals must destroy the climate cult

19 March 2023 5:30 pm

Scrolling through Instragram, I came across a likable North Shore member running for the New South Wales state election. He’s…

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price speaks at the Mannkal Foundation’s Emerging Leaders event

19 March 2023 6:00 am

Renowned Indigenous leader, activist, and politician, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, gave the keynote address for the Mannkal Foundation’s Annual Emerging…

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has restored my faith in Hollywood

19 March 2023 5:00 am

A few years ago, if you were to tell me that a sequel story about a retired swashbuckling cartoon cat…

Changing tides: a return to Australia’s shipping industry

19 March 2023 4:00 am

From 1851, paddle steamers could transport up to 2,000 bales of wool along the Murray River, with engines that were…

OnlyFans: the last stop for Western feminism

18 March 2023 11:45 am

Barely a day goes by without tabloid publications spruiking a ‘good news’ story about some poor, oppressed woman or D-grade…

The rise of the Fifth Estate

18 March 2023 7:00 am

In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote: ‘In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly.…

Power policy in parallel universes

18 March 2023 5:00 am

This year Daniel Westerman will become a well-known if not much-loved public figure. In his role as the energy czar…

You won’t hear these statistics on International Women’s Day

18 March 2023 4:00 am

International Women’s Day (IWD) came and went, with morning teas and combative speeches. We heard about unconscious bias, injustice, imposter…

The coercive control con job

17 March 2023 4:38 pm

Tomorrow, when NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman visits early voting centres in his local electorate, he’ll be in for an…

Alan Jones: Perrottet’s spending spree fails our children

17 March 2023 1:55 pm

Either the media in NSW have gone to sleep, or I am inhabiting another planet. I worked for a Liberal…

The Voice: undermining democracy and empowering the elite

17 March 2023 6:00 am

A constitutionally enshrined uniquely Aboriginal organisation will do nothing to solve the ongoing problems of marginalisation and social dysfunction in…

Memes: the road to collectivism

17 March 2023 5:00 am

As politics becomes increasingly polarised, policymakers are no longer focused on giving voters what they want, but on making voters…

The fallacy of equity: South Africa’s warning to the West

17 March 2023 4:00 am

What do rolling blackouts, public disorder, and impending societal collapse in South Africa, have to do with the contemporary preoccupations…

Calling it what it is: voluntary assisted tragedy

16 March 2023 5:30 am

Canada’s government has been tussling with the idea of providing voluntary euthanasia for those with mental health issues.  This poses…

Masking science with politics in the Covid era

16 March 2023 5:00 am

The release of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages in the ‘Lockdown files’ has been an eye-opener for many who are now…

Super betrayal: it’s not a tax on the rich, it’s a tax on the young

16 March 2023 4:30 am

Throughout my twenty years as a financial planner, a frequent objection to my strategies is, ‘I don’t trust super’. The proposed…

The fanatical foot soldiers of feminism

16 March 2023 4:00 am

So, another International Women’s Day has come and gone, and the usual plethora of dubious statistics, socialist ideology, and tendentious…

Australia’s big picture: climate change, nuclear energy, and defence

15 March 2023 3:22 pm

We are destroying our economy by shutting down baseload power whilst subsidising fake renewables, big batteries, and the incredible energy-gobbling…

CLARIFICATION – FLORADA

15 March 2023 11:59 am

On 14 February 2023, The Spectator Australia published an article entitled ‘Covid killed the Roses’ on our Flat White column…

Get Woke, go broke: Vanguard ditches ESG investing

15 March 2023 6:00 am

The world’s second largest asset management firm, Vanguard, with $8 trillion AUM, has pulled out of the ESG madness. This…

Men welcome in women’s basketball

15 March 2023 5:00 am

It’s funny how the universe works. The first round of the women’s NBL1 competition is set for April 1st. That’s…