Flat White

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

It’s time to bury the ‘One China’ myth

14 April 2022 9:00 am

If history teaches us anything, it is that autocrats and would-be invaders should know what the world thinks before anything…

Christensen returns, Albo walks out, Bandt is factless

14 April 2022 7:00 am

Ex-Liberal-National George Christensen’s foray into the political wildness of retirement struggled to outlast the average coffee run. His scathing valedictory…

Labor’s campaign of contempt

14 April 2022 4:00 am

With Australia on its way to what is likely the most important election it has ever had, it is crucial…

Women will be women – thank God

13 April 2022 2:00 pm

Isn’t it funny…? A US Senator asked Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearing if she could define a woman.…

Get your tickets for TV’s six week election ‘circus’

13 April 2022 12:00 pm

We’re off and running in the circus that is the 2022 election campaign and day one (of 42) didn’t disappoint.…

Angry vapers want electoral revenge

13 April 2022 9:00 am

The media hype over the just-released report on vaping by the Australian National University’s National Centre for Epidemiology and Public…

First round fumble for Albo

13 April 2022 4:00 am

Twenty-six million Australians don’t know the unemployment rate, and Anthony Albanese is one of them. The problem, of course, is…

Socialism deserves the same revulsion as Nazism

12 April 2022 2:00 pm

Why don’t we view socialists and the hammer and sickle with the same revulsion as we view Nazis and the…

The ‘unfair’ Australian contract

12 April 2022 12:00 pm

The idea of an ‘unfair’ contract can be seen as an affront to those who believe that any contract freely…

Sanity is winning the TERF wars

12 April 2022 9:00 am

Four immovable words have become emblematic of a welcomed cultural reset taking place in the West – namely, what is a…

Bye George, we’ll miss you

12 April 2022 4:00 am

My friend George Christensen gave his final speech to Parliament recently. He’s doing what few parliamentarians do – stepping down…

Dr. Livingstone, the racist, I presume?

11 April 2022 2:00 pm

The Australian political theorist, Professor Kenneth Minogue, posited the idea of ‘St George in retirement syndrome’ in his 1961 book The…

Russia’s lethal accusation against Ukraine

11 April 2022 12:00 pm

In Russia’s imagination, they are a proud bulwark against an imaginary threat known as ‘fascism’ and honestly believe that Central…

How the progressive left perpetuates poverty

11 April 2022 9:00 am

Like many of us, I am always baffled by the nihilism and self-loathing attitude towards the West that dominates our…

Evil genius at work

11 April 2022 4:00 am

Imagine a sexual encounter involving a woman shagging a man, sitting on top of him, bouncing cheerfully. How could she…

Ardern and Clark’s next pandemic will be horrid

10 April 2022 12:00 pm

Helen Clark and Jacinda Ardern have been very mean to the world’s Covid Cinderella, New Zealand. Just when we thought…

Letter to the Prime Minister

10 April 2022 4:00 am

Dear Sir, You have spent the last three years trying to fight emergent problems. You have introduced and used some…

Australia needs a leader willing to ‘lead’

9 April 2022 11:00 am

Australia’s first foray into international politics occurred in the shape of Billy Hughes. Has there ever been such a whirlwind…

Truth? Safety? Liberty? Something has gone horribly wrong

9 April 2022 4:00 am

When making important decisions about what drug we are going to inject into our bodies, we consider factors such as…

Roasting or warming? The absent apocalypse...

8 April 2022 2:00 pm

Earth’s average temperature is a balance between heat radiated in from the sun, out from Earth, and generated internally. Almost…

Paper friends vs blood brothers

8 April 2022 1:00 pm

Forget Klaus Schwab’s harmonious ‘world without borders’ and the fanciful global monoculture than can be ruled over by a panel…

Disarming in the ‘Cultural Wars’

8 April 2022 12:00 pm

The culture wars over gender policy have recently warmed back up again, with athletes like Lia Thomas and politicians like…

Freedom of speech? Tell 'em they're dreaming

8 April 2022 9:00 am

Last week, the High Court released the details of its judgment in the case of Ruddick v. Commonwealth of Australia. (Disclosure…

The IPCC say the world is ending! (Again?)

8 April 2022 4:00 am

In the latest ‘now or never!’ since the ‘last now or never!’ the United Nations has warned the world that…

Australia needs a new beginning

7 April 2022 12:00 pm

The Marxists and the Woke brigade have relentlessly marched through our society and institutions, causing a national crisis. We are…