Flat White

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

Jacinta Allan’s hypocrisy over Kanye West

11 February 2024 2:10 am

There are plenty of antisemites in the streets of Melbourne

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

11 February 2024 12:04 am

People are happier in the presence of beautiful buildings

The latest grenade for the Trump-hating media

10 February 2024 3:52 pm

Analysts in a new study say they can conclude that 28.2 per cent of respondents who voted by mail in…

Politicians must permit Australians to speak up

10 February 2024 2:14 am

At a recent public meeting in regional Australia, I asked what politicians could do to capitalise on the current mood…

The dying of Down Under

10 February 2024 1:57 am

A lot of Australians are dying. Many politely say: We need to know why. …but really now, how long must polite…

Where did 50 billion dollars go?

9 February 2024 12:57 am

50 billion dollars… It’s money we spend to achieve a capable defence force every year. We are supposed to get…

Double Shot S2E2: Climate change on trial… Kerry Wakefield, Ralph Schoellhammer, and Daniel Wild

9 February 2024 12:45 am

Kerry Wakefield brings us the latest on the Mark Steyn trial where climate science has gone under the microscope and…

Does Albo’s backflip really make you better off?

8 February 2024 11:45 pm

Anthony Albanese has backflipped on his promise to deliver the stage three tax cuts in full. He has proposed a…

Misunderstanding ‘excellence’

8 February 2024 2:00 am

The Sydney (Patronising) Film Festival has introduced ‘the world’s largest cash prize for Indigenous filmmaking’ at $35,000. My heart sank at…

Plucking the income goose

8 February 2024 1:40 am

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s celebrated Finance Minister, is reported to have said, ‘The act of taxation consists in so plucking…

In praise of carbon dioxide

8 February 2024 1:00 am

‘The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide abundance in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so…

Power to the people: the National Rally Against Reckless Renewables

7 February 2024 9:07 am

One Nation Leader, Pauline Hanson, spoke at the National Rally Against Reckless Renewables on the lawn in front of Parliament House in…

Spotlight on the International Criminal Court

7 February 2024 3:30 am

As both parties claim vindication following the ICJ ruling – less known are the important efforts of French human rights…

The war against merit strikes its lowest chord yet, thanks to the London Philharmonic Orchestra

7 February 2024 2:30 am

By now, my readers should know that the one thing I like to do more than write words is write…

Woke is revoked

7 February 2024 2:00 am

The mass awakening against leftism has begun

Week in 60 Minutes S2E2: Argentina is teaching the West liberty! Nick Hossack, Kevin Andrews, and Julie Sladden

7 February 2024 12:45 am

Nick Hossack applauds Argentina’s President, Javier Milei, for his World Economic Forum speech which was a serious discussion on the…

The shameful trade of women and children: Why there’s no place for Alex Greenwich’s regressive surrogacy reforms in NSW

6 February 2024 8:38 pm

This week, New South Wales is set to debate Independent MP Alex Greenwich’s Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023, a…

Designer sickies and other madness

6 February 2024 2:30 am

The new Enterprise Agreement at the University of Queensland is special but a typical example of the genre: designer sickies.…

OpenDAEN: making sense of the TGA’s Covid adverse event reports

6 February 2024 2:00 am

It was a dinner table conversation imprinted in my memory. The date: September 2021. Topic: Covid injections. Discussion: robust. With…

Spy pigeon

6 February 2024 1:58 am

China’s super-secret ‘spy pigeon’ has been unmasked as a humble Taiwanese racing pigeon. So, a little less ‘Bond’ and a…

Ethnicity and crime

5 February 2024 5:15 pm

The internet is currently awash with the video of four youths of Somali/Sudanese appearance leaving a car. Police want to…

About Western whataboutery

5 February 2024 1:50 pm

I recently saw an ad for an anti-Israel protest in Christchurch, New Zealand. Alongside a picture of the Palestinian flag,…

Conservative polemics – a new dawn?

5 February 2024 3:00 am

A superior weapon is of no use if you do not know how to wield it. In a debate, the…

Was cost a factor in the senseless deaths of three US soldiers?

5 February 2024 2:30 am

Recall Gen George Patton’s reported exhortation to his troops in Africa in 1943, about winning a war ‘by making some…

The writer with an incurable wound

5 February 2024 2:00 am

‘They were seated in the boat, Nick in the stern, his father rowing. The sun was coming up over the…