Flat White

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

Parental rights or hateful extremism?

27 June 2023 5:30 am

They are ‘hard-right, anti-government’ bogey-men threatening the lives of the LGBTQ+ and ‘democracy’! Or so went the general exclamation of…

Hear my voice

27 June 2023 5:00 am

As the third-generation progeny of settlers who came to Australia and settled on the then-dry plains of the Riverina from…

Forgetting the forgotten

27 June 2023 4:30 am

For a few days now, I have been thinking about the following sentences: ‘I do not believe that the real…

‘The Woke-ass punks who run NYC are afraid of pizza?’

27 June 2023 4:08 am

If you wanted a political movement to succeed, the very last thing you’d do is wage war against pizza. You…

Gender fluidity laws: signposting the decline of Western Civilisation

27 June 2023 4:00 am

Lindsy Danzinger recently published a sobering, yet disturbing, commentary in The Epoch Times about an encounter of her mother with a naked…

Double Shot Ep8: Augusto Zimmermann on the rise of the eco-cult

26 June 2023 12:43 pm

Augusto Zimmermann explains the current religious dimension of environmentalism that has taken over the Net Zero movement. Click below to…

The sex that dare not speak its name

26 June 2023 6:00 am

Who would have thought there would come a time in human history when educated adults could not answer a simple…

Second term government, third term problems

26 June 2023 5:40 am

They say a new broom sweeps clean, and that is certainly the case with the premiership of Prime Minister Chris…

Jumpin’ Jack Flash: gas joins the ‘lexicon of evil’

26 June 2023 4:30 am

Gas has had a boomerang trajectory through green misanthropists’ ‘lexicon of evil’. In 1990, at the dawn of climate alarmism,…

Vale, Simon Crean

26 June 2023 4:23 am

Former Labor Leader Simon Crean (1949-2023) has died aged 74 while hiking in Germany. It has been reported that the…

Afghanistan’s fall and the flaw of unadulterated idealism

25 June 2023 5:00 am

Two years since America’s calamitous and reckless withdrawal from Afghanistan, turning it over to the Taliban, the country has experienced…

I’m from the government, and I’m here to threaten you

25 June 2023 4:00 am

These days I try to limit my TV viewing to sport. Every other genre, from drama to game-show to (especially)…

Why do we hate billionaires?

24 June 2023 5:44 pm

Sometimes it takes a crisis and its accompanying trending news headlines to reveal the murky ideological creatures swimming under the…

So… You want to buy a house?!

24 June 2023 6:00 am

First, write down on paper the kind of house you want with the required number of rooms and toilets. Consider…

Woke-ifying the Essendon logo has bombed out

24 June 2023 5:00 am

Generally, stakeholder consultation is a good thing to do; regular rapport being a great lubricant for productive relations between any…

Food security and property rights under threat in Western Australia

24 June 2023 4:00 am

The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (ACH) comes into effect on the July 1, 2023, in Western Australia (WA). Ostensibly it…

Partying like it’s 1901

23 June 2023 1:55 pm

When the bill to authorise a referendum on the Voice to Parliament was passed in the Senate on June 19,…

Parents kept in the dark about gender

23 June 2023 5:00 am

Should a school or a student’s parents decide whether the child can be involved in gender transitioning? In Australia, material…

Children born alive bill: a moral test for our Parliament

23 June 2023 4:30 am

At some point in the not-too-distant future, Australia’s federal Parliament will vote on whether a baby born alive during an…

You have been misled, Australia had a glorious Great Depression

23 June 2023 4:00 am

Nothing in Australia is as Americanised as our perception of the 1930s and the Great Depression. The American reality of…

Grigory Klinishov: when men played with fire

23 June 2023 1:31 am

‘The most nuked place on Earth…’ This is how the Semipalatinsk 18,500 square km testing ground on the Kazakh Steppe…

What are eco-fascist concepts doing in Australia’s law?

22 June 2023 6:30 am

Recent Australian High Court rulings on issues of Aboriginality have taken a strange turn, and not for the better. It…

Sinking the nation

22 June 2023 6:00 am

The Korean Ferry Sewol, at 20 years old, had already been on the Incheon to Jeju run for just over…

A tale of two leaders

22 June 2023 5:00 am

This Flat White article is written by a guest author. This is a tale of two Liberal leaders in Australia:…

Central banks need laxer inflation targets

22 June 2023 4:00 am

The cost of reducing inflation to 2 per cent seems too high