Flat White

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

Productivity is prosperity

2 July 2026 1:36 pm

Government greed is the biggest threat to economic success

The sophistication of denial

2 July 2026 1:01 am

Legacy commentators struggle to describe the demise of major parties

Want to save Australia’s heritage? Attend this event!

2 July 2026 12:31 am

Everyone’s talking about Australian culture. What is it? Where is it? And how do we know it when we see…

Culture? Race? Civilisation?

2 July 2026 12:19 am

Our leaders don’t know the difference

The Left’s cultural hegemony

1 July 2026 12:12 pm

Antonio Gramsci, the Marxist thinker, would be proud

Monocultural mythology

1 July 2026 11:31 am

And the importance of sustaining a nation’s identity and unity of purpose

Modernising the Liberal Party is not a good idea

1 July 2026 10:41 am

And doesn’t explain why One Nation is winning in the polls

Data centres: the panopticon of the 21st Century

30 June 2026 10:02 pm

Who owns our data? What is being collected? Is surveillance the new tech revolution?

Grand Theft memory

30 June 2026 5:45 pm

How AI is making everything more expensive

Is One Nation trolling the Coalition?

30 June 2026 4:26 am

Multicultural debate exposes Coalition weakness and division

The coming crash of intellectuals

30 June 2026 3:21 am

Four pressures are converging on the symbolic economy

The Parliament in Crown: a constitutional thought experiment

30 June 2026 1:53 am

The assumptions we mistake for axioms

WA lost a Liberal MP, and barely anyone noticed

29 June 2026 10:58 am

Trainee MP David Farley makes a mistake and sits with the Green (whoops!) and all hell breaks loose. Headline after…

One Nation supporters are the underdogs

28 June 2026 9:34 pm

None of them get it – not journalists, academics, big business, policymakers, or the major parties. One Nation supporters are…

Blair, Starmer, and the destruction of greatness

28 June 2026 8:35 pm

Britain’s crisis is not that it has forgotten how to rule the world, it has forgotten how to govern itself

Australian schools must teach Anne Frank

28 June 2026 6:40 pm

The decision by any school to refuse to teach The Diary of Anne Frank should concern every Australian who values…

Sage advice for One Nation

28 June 2026 6:30 pm

What exactly does it mean to be Australian?

This is the end of the Teals

28 June 2026 12:36 am

Don’t help them. Just let it happen...

The hidden costs of incompatible immigration

27 June 2026 9:24 pm

Deport non-citizens who commit serious crimes. Our nation must come first...

Albanese puts the brake on Australia’s next resources boom

27 June 2026 3:45 pm

Without investment, projects stall, discoveries do not occur, and future mines are never built

Which party has the best energy policy?

27 June 2026 1:45 pm

The public are hungry for real change, not party slogans

Who ends the churn?

27 June 2026 12:24 pm

So many Prime Ministers in such a short time spells trouble for major parties

No, One Nation isn’t giving land to Musk or Israel

26 June 2026 9:16 pm

Senator Malcolm Roberts clarifies the party’s position on Gina Rinehart’s comments

One Nation’s Gen Z problem

26 June 2026 7:58 pm

Can Pauline Hanson win over the younger voters?

Mr President, take a leaf out of the Desert Storm playbook

26 June 2026 5:10 pm

Iran can be dealt with a Desert-Storm-like alliance