Flat White

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

Bracket creep and soft economists

20 April 2025 6:40 pm

The Albanese government reduced the Stage 3 tax cuts that were designed to address some the burden of bracket creep.…

Reason v magical climate thinking – voters have no choice

20 April 2025 5:22 pm

As Australians prepare to vote for the nature of their future on May 3, I can report that back in…

The 25 hard and fast facts that prove Labor is gaslighting Australians

19 April 2025 10:22 pm

There is a mountain of evidence to support Peter Dutton’s claim that young Australians are being indoctrinated with woke ideology at our schools and universities

Keen to punish the Coalition this election? It’ll cost you!

19 April 2025 8:45 pm

The Coalition may not be in its best shape, but when they were in power, most Australians were better off.…

The real crisis of Adolescence

18 April 2025 9:51 pm

While Stephen Graham’s new drama ‘Adolescence’ may exaggerate the links between knife crime and the digital manosphere, as well as…

The Project: snobbery masquerading as wit

18 April 2025 3:19 pm

By all appearances, Channel Ten’s The Project wants to be Australia’s answer to The Daily Show – news dressed up…

Matt Canavan: the perfect conservative

17 April 2025 6:50 pm

Listen… Senator Matt Canavan might not be as traditionally dishy as Alex Antic, but he made himself an incredibly attractive…

Apparently Peter Dutton is a Liberal

17 April 2025 4:08 pm

If he wanted to cut taxes, he would

Lefty misogyny bingo: tick a box every time you hear Peter Dutton

17 April 2025 11:40 am

The claim that Peter Dutton’s election policies ‘offer nothing for women’ is absurd. Lower fuel costs aren’t sexist. First-home support…

Housing policy debate mismatched with Australian culture

16 April 2025 9:23 pm

From the National Press Club: Housing policy is very tricky to balance effectively. There is no set formula because times…

Reform, restore, recover

16 April 2025 8:10 pm

Election handouts just won’t cut it

Long live Chris Bowen!

16 April 2025 7:25 pm

As you pop your eyeballs back in place, lift your jaw off the floor, and pour a stiff drink after…

Wondering about winter

16 April 2025 3:22 pm

As I bask in the warm Autumn sunshine under a deep blue sky in Adelaide, I wonder when one of…

Trump’s tariff pause and the game theory gamble

16 April 2025 2:36 pm

President Donald Trump’s recent decision to pause tariffs for 90 days on most US trading partners – while escalating them…

Ignore the polls, it’s not too late for Dutton

15 April 2025 7:29 pm

Everywhere you turn, the polls say that Peter Dutton is losing the election and public vote is slipping through his…

Forget a tariff-induced recession, Australians have been in recession for two years

15 April 2025 6:41 pm

The standard of living in Australia has been in sharp focus during this election campaign. Both major parties have been…

Tone-deaf Greens disco on Anzac Day

15 April 2025 10:52 am

Australia is in a strange space where the traditions that enabled our high standard of living are being taken for…

Albo’s ‘Blight on the Hill’ is blinding the MSM

15 April 2025 10:48 am

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says she wants to ‘make Australia great again’. The reaction? ‘They finally said the quiet bit out…

Jacinta Price nearly won the election

14 April 2025 8:17 pm

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price should be the Leader of the Opposition, if for no other reason than she rubs the media…

Labor’s green gamble

14 April 2025 4:12 pm

Why a cautious transition keeps the lights on

Starmer says Net Zero nanny state will fortify UK against Trump’s Tariffs

14 April 2025 3:40 pm

Trump’s tariffs are set to ‘make Britain work again’. These were the assertions of Net-Zero nanny state leader, Keir Starmer,…

The Left’s eternal war against private schools

14 April 2025 12:28 pm

Here we go again… The socialist deconstructionists are flagging one of their favourite ideas, at least, that is the impression…

Ideas – the fuel for democracy

14 April 2025 11:36 am

An Open Letter to the leader of the Liberal Party, Peter Dutton, who is vying to be the next Prime Minister of Australia

Ditching Albo for Plibersek won’t save Labor

13 April 2025 8:00 pm

‘Backstabbing’ is the leading cause of early demise amongst the Labor leadership. If Prime Minister Anthony Albanese finds himself feeling…

Did my Coalition policy launch dream come true, and other thoughts

13 April 2025 5:57 pm

Here I am again, a glass of red this time rather than a gin and tonic. Goodness knows, I need…