Flat White

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

The more things change, the more they stay the same

28 January 2025 5:57 pm

Our nation stands at a crucial juncture as we approach the coming election. Later this year we will vote to…

Enough is enough: Australian history must be protected

28 January 2025 4:11 pm

If a piece of Indigenous artwork or a sacred place is vandalised by an individual motivated by race, no one…

Not so Tame

28 January 2025 12:21 pm

It beggars belief and demonstrates an appalling lack of judgment that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is happy to entertain Grace…

Woke is trapped in political limbo

28 January 2025 11:26 am

La Rochefoucauld was one of the great satirists in literature. His Maximes, written in the 17th Century, secured his place…

Bowen’s sabotage

28 January 2025 9:22 am

A bloke called Arthur from Camp Mountain, a community of less that 1,500 people some 20kms northwest of Brisbane, has…

Australia first!

27 January 2025 4:59 pm

Mr Dutton, take note: the silent majority is waiting for a visionary leader

What has the WHO contributed to global health?

27 January 2025 3:35 pm

Along with many other Woke organisations, the World Health Organisation will have its swamp drained by the new US President,…

The disaster of South Africa’s land grabs

27 January 2025 9:53 am

The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, who leads the African National Congress Party, has approved a law that will…

Patriotism is back from the dead – and young Australians revived it

25 January 2025 9:41 pm

Youth. The innocence yet fearlessness of youth. We’ve all been there. Being completely humbled by a plain-speaking toddler, or squirming…

Australia is a shared history, not a conflict

25 January 2025 8:46 pm

Was Australia ‘invaded’ by the British? I previously answered this question in detail in a previous article here. However, the…

Mateship is nothing to cringe about

25 January 2025 8:39 pm

They say if you’re stopped on the side of the Birdsville Track, you’ll know when a car coming past is…

Trump unshackles Australia Day

25 January 2025 4:23 pm

Great things happened this week. Donald Trump multitasked his way into office as the liberator of Western culture, and The…

Javier Milei’s fellowship of freedom

25 January 2025 1:53 am

President of Argentina, Javier Milei, is having a ball at Davos. ‘The mental virus of Woke ideology is an epidemic…

Dedicated to revenge: anti-Australian activism must end

24 January 2025 6:10 pm

It is quite extraordinary that tiny-minded, useful idiot activism has reached the point where anti-Australia Day radicals want to cut…

Hold the line for Australia Day

24 January 2025 2:46 pm

As with so much of the rest of the Western world, Australians are demanded to ‘reflect, respect, and celebrate’ on…

A ferry tale

24 January 2025 11:58 am

Attempting to sell one of my ‘world’s best ferry designs’ in the 1990s to a local but prominent ferry company,…

Rescuing manners from the Woke swamp

24 January 2025 9:17 am

I’m walking down the street on a weekday morning, heading for the shops to do some banking and check the…

The Trump non-effect: Dutton stays in Paris, squibs gender question

23 January 2025 4:13 pm

The ‘Trump effect’ has had little effect on Peter Dutton. Families will continue to pay the Paris premium on their…

Farewell safe spaces, hello space

23 January 2025 1:24 am

The ‘trust the science’ people must be thrilled. Donald Trump has upheld biological reality against deluded activism. Defending women from…

Sorry, WHO is this?

22 January 2025 11:39 pm

The ungodly era of progressive politics has been gutted by the pen. Page after page, folder after folder. The executive…

America is back, baby!

22 January 2025 2:36 pm

And that should have every Australian excited

Flu vaccine mandates

22 January 2025 12:44 pm

A deeper look at efficacy, viral interference, and the influence of corporate interests

Dutton’s omissions matter

22 January 2025 12:11 pm

On Sunday, 12 January 2025, Australia’s Federal Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, in a widely reported speech, made a compelling case…

What lies next for the Middle Kingdom?

22 January 2025 9:46 am

Many mistook the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) tightening of what many believe to be an iron grip on Hong Kong…

Give it a rest, Elon was saluting Mars

21 January 2025 5:01 pm

We need to come up with a word for modern press hysteria which is obsessed with chasing the ghost of…