Flat White

The agender of the ABC

7 September 2021 6:55 pm

My attention is repeatedly and reluctantly draw to the ongoing focus of the ABC to rid women of traditional and…

The UN says no coal by 2030

7 September 2021 5:03 pm

Reminding us of what a difference a year makes was yesterday’s exhortation by UN Climate Action Team head Selwyn Hart, that…

The strange Tassie death cult

7 September 2021 3:14 pm

Death Cult: “A fringe religious group that is obsessed with death.” Or, if you prefer, the Tasmanian Greens. With just…

Andrews’ weakness is his conceit, but can the Liberals take down Goliath?

7 September 2021 1:11 pm

Good polls come and go. Bad polls linger for longer than most would like, but only rarely do leaders grow…

Matthew Guy and Michael O’Brien: the raindrop race

7 September 2021 8:38 am

Did you ever have raindrop races when you were a child; pick a raindrop on a window with a sibling,…

Tough Love: Covid-19 and the racism of low expectations

7 September 2021 4:00 am

A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…

Remember when we respected the police?

6 September 2021 5:30 pm

Aren’t members of the police force Australian citizens too? Citizens who have families and are also hurting because of the…

There’s nothing Liberal about the Liberal Party

6 September 2021 3:00 pm

John Ruddick is the Liberal Democrat Party candidate for the Senate. He recently wrote in these pages about the just-passed…

Identity politics is a threat to societies

6 September 2021 12:00 pm

Identity politics has been weaponised to sow division across the Western world. Global outrage over the killing of George Floyd…

Death, Covid and freedom

6 September 2021 4:00 am

Let’s talk about death — because until we do talk about death we will never be free of the fear…

vaccine

EXCLUSIVE: Fair Work Ombudsman leaves voluntary workers in the cold over jabs

5 September 2021 2:36 pm

At a time when Australians are facing the prospect of losing work and opportunities based on their vaccination status, you…

Feminists throw children under the bus

5 September 2021 10:27 am

There’s no end to the dreadful chicanery being used to prop up the feminist narrative of virtuous women and villainous…

All cows are green

4 September 2021 4:43 pm

Growing trees need three essentials – radiant energy from the sun, CO2 and rain from the atmosphere, and nutrients and…

Vaccine passport restrictions are constitutionally invalid. Here’s why

4 September 2021 12:00 pm

Australian governments are now starting to impose vaccination orders as the way out of lockdowns. They have decided that people…

Kiwis want elimination, and nothing but elimination

3 September 2021 3:43 pm

Yesterday, the New Zealand Herald published the findings of an opinion poll it commissioned as a wave of the Delta…

What’s woke this week?

3 September 2021 1:16 pm

The more I research stories from Wokeworld the more I conclude that they’ve just got to be pulling our collective…

In Gladystopia men can now be Woman of the Year

3 September 2021 11:29 am

Based on biology and genetic makeup a woman is a woman and a man is a man. No longer, according…

Lockdowns: an alibi for government to shun scrutiny of neglect of public health preparedness

3 September 2021 4:00 am

The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ monthly update on mortality has the eye-catching statistic that in every single week from 1…

Big Public Health flunks Tobacco Control 101 – yet again

2 September 2021 7:31 pm

Not so long ago, the best way for a non-law abiding Australian to make a lot of money was to…

The bribing of the New Zealand media?

2 September 2021 4:52 pm

“Trustworthy, insightful, important” — one thing we can say for our mainstream media is that they must think we are…

Is political correctness responsible for our radical reactions to COVID-19?

2 September 2021 2:34 pm

One of the great ironies of the Covid-19 pandemic is how consistent Western governments have been at providing inconsistent health…

President Biden’s short road back

2 September 2021 1:06 pm

On August 14, 2020, I woke up to a barrage of WhatsApp messages. Group conversations I’m in were buzzing. The…

Unfair contracts bill a boon for small business

2 September 2021 11:30 am

With all the focus on Covid, it’s good to see that major reform efforts are still underway.  Last week the…

From vaccine passports to vaccine apartheid

2 September 2021 4:00 am

According to a YouGov poll published in yesterday’s Australian, two-thirds of Australians agree that people who are not vaccinated should be denied…

Why a move to home quarantine is long overdue

1 September 2021 6:50 pm

For those stuck in their umpteenth lockdown – despair not! It seems that after 18 months of working from home, someone…