Flat White

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

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

Angus Taylor: ‘The Labor government is f**kin’ sh*t…’

24 August 2026 8:02 pm

Am I the only one who thinks the optics of the Pollie Pedal event, despite being for a good cause,…

Prime Minister, why should data centres underwrite wind if it is so cheap?

24 August 2026 3:54 am

Wind is intermittent, but its government support is not...

Wobbly Dr Who scenery

24 August 2026 3:39 am

The Australian national identity does not exist

Do politicians have the right to block citizens on social media?

23 August 2026 10:45 pm

Politicians, or perhaps their shallow-minded media managers, have been going crazy with the ‘block’ button. If you call the Treasurer…

The undefended flank

23 August 2026 8:57 pm

For every dollar spent protecting nature, roughly 40 dollars are spent undermining it

Where there is no vision, the people will perish

23 August 2026 6:51 pm

Watching Australia go down the gurgler at the hands of vision-less bedwetters

A pity both sides can’t lose

23 August 2026 1:54 pm

What we need is a referendum to enshrine the right to free speech

Labor refuses to consult Jewish community on divisive bill

23 August 2026 10:41 am

Banning Red Union will create a Labor-friendly union monopoly and rob workers of their choice

I can’t believe they haven’t banned Community Notes

23 August 2026 12:54 am

Politicians are having their policies and election promises fact-checked by the mob ... it’s not pretty