Flat White

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

The death of the heroic political backstory

31 August 2026 11:34 pm

Why the age of the carefully curated origin myth is becoming harder to sustain

When did normal become ‘far-right’?

31 August 2026 11:00 pm

The valid concerns of Australians have been wrongly branded as radicalisation by politicians and the press

Woodside drops $7 billion low-carbon investment target

31 August 2026 8:03 pm

Is the balance of power shifting away from Net Zero projects and investments?

One Nation is winning the battle for the somewheres

31 August 2026 2:31 pm

But the party needs to be wary about its flirtation with the anywheres...

Open Letter to Dr Anna Cody

31 August 2026 1:49 pm

The Australian Human Rights Sex Discrimination Commissioner

Woke hasn’t killed Australia’s adventurer spirit

31 August 2026 1:08 pm

Brown brings back Boy’s Own Birtles and the Bean

The orange waters of Secret Harbour

30 August 2026 2:14 am

There are no such thing as safe Labor seats anymore, according to Luke Herdegen

Can Victoria send Albo a melon-surrender bin?

30 August 2026 1:23 am

While the fabric of Australia is tearing itself to bits, the national conversation remains preoccupied with the Prime Minister’s melon…

Tanya Plibersek’s history lesson for young Australians

29 August 2026 11:14 pm

Is this really the best time to be a first home-buyer, or are young people being left behind?

Checking in on the health of our government

29 August 2026 10:57 pm

Because the people of Australia are feeling quite unwell

The standard you walk past

29 August 2026 4:37 pm

The new Carroll government has reinvented itself as the not-Jacinta-or-Dan Collective

The Curley problem of cynical vote harvesting

29 August 2026 1:40 pm

And how his modus operandi has been used effectively by political leaders since

Victorians have every right to be angry

28 August 2026 3:06 am

Changing the Premier does not change the rotten culture

Immigration confusion

28 August 2026 2:46 am

A recent policy change by One Nation has revealed a lot of confusion about immigration policy, and which numbers really matter

Shahriyaragan: The ancient Iranian tradition of ideal kingship

28 August 2026 2:25 am

This essay concerns a desire that Iranians have preserved deep within their collective soul for centuries, a longing for the…

Stories from the edge of the world

28 August 2026 2:10 am

Chauncy offers the other pole: a Tasmania where human beings can flourish

Our universities are captured and don’t even know it!

27 August 2026 3:34 pm

How education lost all sense of reality inside the identity politics echo chamber

If super is really our money, prove it

27 August 2026 2:52 pm

Senator Pauline Hanson is right that super is deferred pay, and wrong about what follows from it

Data centre derangement syndrome

26 August 2026 8:12 pm

Wealth inequality, not the environment, is driving the backlash

The trouble with Utopia … is us

26 August 2026 4:01 pm

Conservatives don’t expect politicians to fix human nature. The Left does...

Two dead families’ worth of grief, and one theory

lindsay clancy

26 August 2026 1:50 pm

...the mind broke, therefore the person cannot answer for what the broken mind has done

Before the shouting starts

25 August 2026 9:31 pm

Why Western Australia’s Parliament should keep the prayer

Albanese thinks his government is anger-proof

25 August 2026 11:40 am

...because he is safe, so long as there is nowhere for the protest vote to go

People and politics now polls apart

25 August 2026 10:50 am

Labor is paying the price, but the Coalition isn’t collecting the benefit

The Lord’s Prayer is inclusive. Acknowledgement of Country is not…

25 August 2026 10:03 am

The secular prayer taking over Australia is more divisive than its Christian predecessor