Flat White

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

The great purge rolls on

6 December 2021 5:23 am

‘Like Fresh Meat: Detailing Rampant Sex Harassment in Australia’s Parliament.’ This was the lurid headline in the New York Times…

Last drinks for the Canberra bubble

5 December 2021 4:00 am

It’s ironic that a federal minister should again promote alcoholic abstinence as a cure for whatever allegedly ails (or should…

Norway wishes you a Merry Wokemas

4 December 2021 6:00 pm

Not even Father Christmas is off limits to the unoriginal, hypocritical Woke mob. Last week the virtue signalling Norwegian postal…

Morrison wades blindly into the Solomon Islands

4 December 2021 2:00 pm

Civil chaos in the Solomon Islands has created an intricate geopolitical problem for Scott Morrison. Anti-government protests turned violent last…

Did we learn anything from 2021?

4 December 2021 9:00 am

The last two years have been packed with chaos. Politicians have gone mad with power. Division has run rife throughout…

Vale Christian Kerr

4 December 2021 9:00 am

It is with profound sadness that I must inform the family of Spectator Australia writers, readers and fans of the…

I won't take the vaccine, here's why

4 December 2021 4:00 am

I won’t take a COVID vaccine. Here’s why. In 1783 the Treaty of Paris formalised American independence from Great Britain.…

Christian Kerr

3 December 2021 12:47 pm

As you’ll have seen from Rowan Dean’s announcement yesterday, our hitherto anonymous online editor, Christian Kerr, custodian of Flat White,…

Woke work is unhappy work

3 December 2021 9:00 am

The more that we talk about work/life balance and diverse and inclusive workplaces, the unhappier we seem to be. Over…

Remembering Adam Smith before it’s too late

3 December 2021 4:00 am

Adam Smith in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, marvelled at…

Notre Damn

1 December 2021 9:00 am

If anything could tempt a vengeful god out of silence, it might be the unholy restoration plans for Notre Dame. …

Unhealthy public health

1 December 2021 4:00 am

There was a time when public health people made a major contribution to our lives – ensuring the water in…

Omicron demonstrates the futility of mandatory vaccines

30 November 2021 4:00 am

International travel has been restricted to fully vaccinated people for quite some time. It appears that the new coronavirus variant,…

Here’s to the risk takers

29 November 2021 6:27 pm

In the 1870s and 80s, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge was one of the engineering landmarks of the day.…

Vaccine mandates are as queer as a clockwork orange

29 November 2021 3:10 pm

What if I told you there was a way to end crime forever?  That there was the possibility to eliminate…

Big tech, big target, good politics

29 November 2021 12:05 pm

Scott Morrison is going troll hunting. Well, there’s more in his announcement of new laws targeting social media and the…

How we hope to hold people responsible for the hotel quarantine disaster: people, not just bureaucracies

29 November 2021 4:00 am

 In late September this year efforts bore fruit to require WorkSafe Victoria to prosecute government agencies and individuals over the…

Dan and Albo’s barbie: hard to swallow

28 November 2021 2:12 pm

While thousands of Victorians were marching on Parliament to protest Daniel Andrews’ pandemic legislation, the man himself was staging the…

The curious case of Joe Gersh and his defence of Ita Buttrose

28 November 2021 11:17 am

The repeated efforts of ABC Director Joe Gersh to defend his Chairperson, Ita Buttrose, are as laughable as they are…

Religious discrimination legislation? What next? 'No jabber (in tongues), no job'?

27 November 2021 12:32 pm

People are right to be concerned that happy-clapper, sky fairy worshipping freaks will use the government’s proposed Religious Discrimination Bill…

The Dan Andrews protests v polls conundrum 

26 November 2021 2:11 pm

Ever since the Newspoll results on Saturday, I’ve been wracking (and wrecking) my brain trying to find a logical answer…

A Minister for Loneliness?

26 November 2021 11:48 am

As the segregated Victorian population emerged into a state full of smoke and mirrors last week, something else also swirled into…

Vaccine mandates? Get knotted

26 November 2021 4:00 am

I have a friend who has not been vaccinated.  He was advised by his doctor not to have the jab. …

New Human Rights Commissioner warns on vaccine mandates

25 November 2021 5:31 pm

Further to my piece yesterday about the Federal Attorney-General, Michaelia Cash, going missing when requested by the Fair Work Commission to…

Liberal support is disintegrating – but barely going to Hanson, Palmer or the LDP

25 November 2021 4:04 pm

If you follow The Guardian Australia’s overexcited live politics blog and dip in and out of Twitter, this week’s parliamentary…