Flat White

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

Anger is never without an object

15 May 2026 12:34 am

Coalition paying the price for the pent-up frustration

If Elon Musk were in an Australian classroom, he’d be on the NDIS

15 May 2026 12:11 am

With 16 per cent of all Australian boys aged five to seven now on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, our…

In this budget, it was our veterans who paid

14 May 2026 11:57 pm

The ABC got a pay rise. Invictus got the chop...

Making a difference – a million migrants at a time

14 May 2026 11:40 pm

Is it a naive analytical blind spot that prompts the following: ‘[Angus] Taylor’s remarks were a distraction from a more…

Time to stash cash under the bed?

13 May 2026 9:19 pm

‘I wonder how many of you have savings locked away in the banking system where you think it’s safe? Well,…

Are death duties next?

13 May 2026 2:50 pm

The case for changing politicians, not taxes

A student perspective on the ‘lost boys’ in higher education

13 May 2026 12:07 pm

Recently, I came across a post from The Australian on X with the headline: Lost boys need a leg-up as…

How is this budget fair to young Australians?

13 May 2026 10:41 am

Labor entrenches a two-tier investment system

Australians are paying for broken promises and election lies

13 May 2026 10:20 am

Young Australians in particular are being treated with contempt

Budget 2026 losers and biggest losers

12 May 2026 7:54 pm

The budget byline is ‘Reform and Resilience’

Rubio is coming…

12 May 2026 5:30 pm

My pick for the next President of the United States

Sex matters, but where are the men?

12 May 2026 3:20 pm

Men must join with women in raising their voices

I am done with the debate. I want outcomes…

12 May 2026 1:22 pm

Antizionism takes a people’s liberation movement and reframes it as bigotry

Recession, this way comes

12 May 2026 10:57 am

The long overdue correction appears to finally be here – courtesy of Labor

What did I miss?

11 May 2026 10:58 pm

Australia’s political week in fast forward

What David Pocock, and others, miss in the gas tax debate

11 May 2026 3:09 pm

There’s a reason the recent gas tax debate has cut through. Australians haven’t suddenly developed a deep interest in resource…

The Farrer by-election was worse than we think

11 May 2026 1:54 pm

The results from the May 9, 2026, Farrer by-election are in, and it is worse than you think. It appears…

Taxpayers despair at forking out for ISIS brides

11 May 2026 11:25 am

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor offered two numbers that represent taxpayer-funded support. Pensioners: $31,309 ISIS Brides: $46,889 Taylor presented these figures…

The 1932 ghost

11 May 2026 10:59 am

Why Chris Minns should be looking over his shoulder

Noblesse Oblige died last night

11 May 2026 10:26 am

The LNP didn’t lose an election. It died of a 19th Century disease...

How counter-sovereignty is killing the West

10 May 2026 10:28 pm

Populism is a response to the attack on the nation state

War of the Worlds: Is the populist moment coming for Australia?

10 May 2026 8:16 pm

Watching the results for the Farrer by-election come in I was surprised at how high the final vote was for…

The Farrer earthquake

10 May 2026 1:37 pm

How the commentariat got it wrong

Angus Taylor: party of convenience, not conviction

10 May 2026 2:15 am

There were hard lessons for the Liberals in Farrer

The lottery of life

10 May 2026 12:51 am

Why motherhood remains the greatest privilege