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Twit of the Day
It was only yesterday that the SpecOz launched its effort to generate modish social capital in these times of trouble…
Introducing our Twit of the Day
In these times of trouble, it’s important that we join together as a community — and what unites us more…
Tim Fischer: farewell to a gentle warrior
In its campaign advertising in 1996 the Keating government portrayed Nationals leader Tim Fischer as a half-deranged yokel; a national…
The stupidest story of the year?
Dear, gentle reader. Is this – from the Nine Network’s dying fringe-left SMAge mastheads – the stupidest story of the…
Ground Control to Major Jane
She’s out of her mind. She’s off the planet. There’s nothing more ridiculous than when a Nor Shor leftie accepts…
The things you can learn at university these days
From The Conservation, that university funded website for academics who would really rather be breakfast TV hosts, a cracker: Having…
Unlike the big boys the Spectator Australia called it way before
About that Labor landslide… Remember how the Berejiklian government would just hang on or be swept away in a tidal…
Yassmin: democracy is always a risk for those of us who know better
You don’t really think a night like last night would have gone by without a pithy and pertinent observation from…
It’s the coal wot won it
That and other post-election news and analysis appearing in your Flat White from later Sunday. Got something to add? Join…
Do it for Bob
The hashtag bobbed up as the news spread last night: #DoItForBob. Yes. Let’s. Spectator types in particular. Let’s have a…
What’s woke this week?
What’s woke this week? Actually, we’re cheating a little with what’s woke the week after next — and the week…
We can’t get a Greta, but bring on Bella…
Gaia be praised! Greta Thunberg was otherwise occupied, but Richard Di Natale’s got himself his very own election klimate katastrophist…
Dr Dick and his Smokin’ Tokens
Someomes it’s best just to let the original speak for itself: (Of course, it would be even more egalitarian if…
How the Greens don’t get capitalism yet star at self interest
The Greens, it would be fair to say, don’t understand captialism. Equally, it would be approprate to say that advertising…
Patronising the arts
The first of an occasional series by the Flat White team. “The Massachusetts of the south.” That’s how John Howard once…
Who can feel an election coming on, Flat White contributors?
Well, we’re on. That means we want contributions. Pithy, punchy, provocative pieces on Australian politics and the campaign. All you…
Now we know how the SMH and Age will define “mainstream” in the election
Boy. Boy oh boy oh boy. Channel Nine’s left wing tabloids have really jumped the shark. “Reparations for black Americans:…
Numptynomics
Looks like a slightly startling Sloane Ranger mummy (or Simon Le Bon) from 1981, sounds like a student trot mixed…
A campaign launch disguised as a budget
It’s like nothing we’ve ever seen before. In other words, it’s business as usual in Australian politics – business as…
A Liberal man of letters: Peter Coleman, 1928-2019
Journalist, parliamentarian, editor, author and Spectator Australia columnist Peter Coleman has died in Sydney at the age of 90. He…
NSW: a reality check
Congratulations to Gladys and the hair gel lads for their result yesterday. And for Scot, here’s a history lesson. On…
It’s all wishful thinking, but boy does it drive clicks
Independent. Always. Ah, yes. That pledge below the mastheads of Nine Entertainment’s left-wing tabloids to give you the sort of…
Turnbull’s coup delusion – they weren’t afraid that I would lose, but I would win
Forget about Julie Bishop and her “I could have won the election” lines from Sunday. In an infinitely more damaging…
Labor’s woman problem
Their ABC and Nine’s dead tree division (and dying limbs), The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, have done their…
Flat White: a statement
Last week the Flat White website published a letter from a reader with an accompanying illustration. The post was removed immediately…
