Flat White

From the ground in Ukraine: aid and terror

4 April 2022 4:00 am

It is a strange thing to travel toward a war zone. As one drives in the direction of Ukraine, all…

Trust us! We’re from the ABC…

3 April 2022 12:00 pm

ABC management and their high-paid editorial gurus would like taxpayers to believe the national broadcaster is the ‘most trusted’ source…

Edward VIII and the reserve powers

3 April 2022 4:00 am

When Sir John Kerr dismissed the Whitlam government, only welded-on Labor Party supporters and a handful of Marxist university students…

An alternative South Australian perspective

2 April 2022 2:00 pm

The Flat White article, A South Australian perspective, will win plenty of admirers in Sydney and Melbourne. It is the people…

Cashed-up and morally broke

2 April 2022 12:00 pm

The Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, and in particular – the Treasurer – have a problem; Australians have stopped…

Could the ‘Cook Islands Option’ save our Pacific family?

2 April 2022 9:00 am

In light of the possibility of a Chinese military base soon being installed in the Solomon Islands, it may be…

Same garbage – different flies

2 April 2022 4:00 am

The Australian Budget was a profound disappointment. Not one useless law was repealed, not one tax was abolished, and not…

Ukraine must win to deter future conflict

1 April 2022 2:00 pm

There are signs Putin may be prepared to limit his ambitions and settle for a portion of East Ukraine. President…

Last minute legal manoeuvres: WA delay trial of Falconer case

1 April 2022 12:00 pm

At an urgent hearing late on March 28, the evening before Senior Constable Ben Falconer’s challenge to the WA Police…

Frydenberg’s Budget is a spendathon, but is it any good?

1 April 2022 9:00 am

The government’s much-anticipated 2022-23 Budget contains the usual set of massive spending programs characteristic of an election year. Many of…

What is a woman? James asks ‘every politician in the Western world’

1 April 2022 4:00 am

At the exact moment totalitarian regimes in Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are threatening global peace and stability, the…

Wokeism: the next big religion

31 March 2022 2:00 pm

One of the more intriguing aspects of neo-Marxist inspired wokeness, notwithstanding its avowed secular nature and hostility to Christianity, is…

Can the ABC be accused of racism?

31 March 2022 12:00 pm

I think it’s a legitimate question. With monotonous regularity, we get fact-free, ideological rants masquerading as news on their various…

There is still no rape crisis on campus

31 March 2022 9:00 am

Five years ago, the Australian Human Rights Commission conducted a million-dollar survey to try to find evidence of a rape…

Those damned dams

31 March 2022 4:00 am

While it was very pleasing to this old water conservation enthusiast to hear PM Morrison announce a 5.4 billion funding…

Kate and Will’s fabulous Caribbean journey?

30 March 2022 12:00 pm

Well, Kate and Will’s ‘Horrible Caribbean Journey’ is at an end and I now have a chest full of newspaper…

Authoritarianism gets women hot…

30 March 2022 9:00 am

To understand why the rise of authoritarianism in once-liberal Western democracies is greeted – not by resistance, but rapturous applause…

Can men have babies? Albo says ‘no’, Labor says ‘yes’

30 March 2022 4:00 am

Anthony Albanese has incensed LGBTQ+ activists by saying men can’t have babies, but the public don’t believe him when he says he’s not Woke.…

Frydenberg is wrong, Australia is in economic decline

29 March 2022 2:00 pm

The economy is not bounding ahead as declared by the Treasurer, it is stagnant – probably even in decline. There…

Is WorkSafe doing its job?

29 March 2022 12:00 pm

The effort to prosecute the Victorian government – including the Premier and his ministers, over the 2020 Hotel Quarantine disaster…

Trust ‘the science’ – or else

29 March 2022 7:30 am

Science used to be seen as something revolutionary – a catalyst for incredible change with the potential to bring about…

Challenge to WA mandatory vaccine directions heads to trial

29 March 2022 4:00 am

On Tuesday, Senior Constable Ben Falconer’s challenge to the WA Police Mandatory vaccine directions heads to trial. The last month,…

‘Mean Girls’ will shape the next election

28 March 2022 12:00 pm

Liberals are basking in schadenfreude after allegations of bullying were levelled at Labor’s Senate leadership team of Penny Wong, Katy…

Teaching sexual consent in high schools

28 March 2022 9:00 am

Last month it was announced all Australian high school students are to be taught about sexual consent and coercion. Mandatory…

Judge Jackson and the ‘Cult of the Woke’

28 March 2022 4:00 am

The Great Awokening has reached every nook and cranny of our culture. And the impact of this disease is now…