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Budget 2017: bank levy is just a populist revenue grab
So much can be said about the 2017-18 federal budget — little of it complimentary — it’s hard to know…
Silencing dissent over abortion
Well-informed Flat White readers will be aware of the two abortion bills before the NSW Parliament, and the remarkable petitioning effort against it…
Budget 2017: more unfunded promises and hypocrisy on school spending
One of the delicious ironies of politics is the tendency for one side to admonish the other side for doing…
Budget 2017: politically clever, but…
I’ve been lamenting that for too long we’ve had no sensible centre in Australian politics, effectively ceding the political debate…
Budget 2017: an invitation to vote Labor
Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull have been far too clever by half with year’s budget. Yes, they’ve moved to blunt…
Your ABC: pissing away your taxes
Have a look at how much money the ABC gets in tonight’s budget, but before you do have a look…
Budget 2017: budget for nothing from the budget tonight
Language constantly evolves to match the evolving society. Words get old and become obsolete, new words come in to enrich…
Budget 2017: trashing the Liberal legacy on Catholic schools
Sometimes former Labor leaders become libertarians. This is how we’ve started the week, with Mark Latham joining the Liberal Democrats…
Budget 2017: the Medical Research Future Fund must go
The federal budget comes out this evening and, in what can heart-warmingly be described as a bipartisan tradition, the ‘heroes’…
Milo vs Hillary: signs of strength
It is said that true strength is shown in how you dust yourself off after setbacks and keep going. Take…
Victoria’s euthanasia mission creep
Anyone looking at the experience in Canada since euthanasia and assisted suicide laws came into force last year, should be…
Send in the drones
On a crisp Canberra autumn morning last week scientists and technical experts from the CSIRO, the University of New South…
Will Europe fall to Putin’s grand design?
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. All the powers of Atlanticist Europe have entered…
Politicians need to listen on abortion laws
Occasionally a politician proposes something so mind-bogglingly extreme and dangerous that it’s hard to fully believe they’re actually being serious.…
The 18C fight: it’s bigger than you think
It has become a sort of trump card in debates over 18C for its defenders to ask its critics what…
The government goes after online shoppers
If there’s one thing government enjoys more than taking your money, it’s finding a convenient excuse to do it. With…
Let’s put people in charge of their own super
Imagine if your boss called you into their office to tell you they had decided who you could bank with.…
Daniel Andrews gender agenda and mythmaking
By now, I’m sure you would’ve heard the news that the Victorian Andrews government is backing a brand new “feminist…
What part of free speech doesn’t Liberty Victoria understand?
Liberty Victoria’s decision to reward Gillian Triggs with its annual Voltaire Award is a perfect example of the left’s perverse…
Fairfax: you’ll really miss us when we’re gone
Fairfax journalists are — gosh, how retro — out on strike for a week over job cuts. They’ve taken to…
Licensing our lives
Anyone who’s ever stepped out onto a crossing with the green light and come within a hair’s breadth of being…
Gonski 2.0 or Conski 2.0?
In a stunning political move, the government seized the Gonski high-ground yesterday by announcing Gonski 2.0, another review into how…
How a KGB man became the fascist’s friend
Since ‘fake-news’ is all the rage these days it seems only appropriate that there’s a strange law on the books…
Abbott slams “anti-men” policy, but why are other MPs silent?
Thank heavens for Tony Abbott. Did we ever think we’d be saying that? Questionable. On Monday he spoke out to…
Pope Francis’ flock and Islam’s wolves
The Holy Father’s been having a tough time lately. He recently gave a statement to reporters on the war against…
