Flat White

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

Melbourne on the Yangtze

22 September 2025 12:29 pm

In a stunning display of professional courtesy, the Chinese Communist Party has sought advice from the Victorian Labor government on…

Price calls Albanese’s decision civilisational cowardice and capitulation to barbarism

22 September 2025 10:51 am

Last week, depraved pro-Palestinian protesters vandalised another piece of Australian history. Not content to stop at war memories, Captain Cook…

Charlie brings Musk and Trump together

22 September 2025 9:17 am

X CEO Elon Musk has been spotted sitting next to President Donald Trump at Charlie Kirk’s memorial this morning. NEW:…

Albanese’s capitulation to Hamas

22 September 2025 8:07 am

Today, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese released a joint statement with Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, recognising the ‘state of Palestine’. The…

CPAC Australia 2025: A conservative awakening

21 September 2025 7:40 pm

In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah, CPAC Australia was held in Brisbane over the weekend…

Jacinta Price’s patriotism wins over CPAC

21 September 2025 9:32 am

It’s easy to know who the next leader of the Liberal Party should be … the name that most outrages…

Let’s not be too Hastie

20 September 2025 9:25 pm

He is making a pass at Net Zero, not the leadership

PNG defence treaty – Albo’s multi-billion-dollar fail

20 September 2025 2:43 pm

East Sepik Governor Allan Bird belled the cat on Canberra’s latest brain fart for a multi-billion-dollar defence treaty with PNG…

Walking in Venezuela’s Shoes?

20 September 2025 2:26 pm

Flamingo frittata and pigeon pasta on the menu

Do Australian conservative students feel safe?

20 September 2025 1:10 am

In April this year, a 16-year-old Brisbane student from a prestigious private school was charged with preparing for a terrorist…

Labor ruins 125-year-old Anzac tradition

20 September 2025 1:00 am

In a move that reeks of a communist-esque opposition to Christianity and blatant disregard for Australia’s military heritage, the Labor…

This is serious

19 September 2025 7:11 pm

For the Treasury...

Engines roar, voices silenced

19 September 2025 6:00 pm

Will Australia turn a blind eye?

A Conservative Manifesto to rescue Australia from Albo

19 September 2025 2:01 pm

The hour is late, but not too late

The ten biggest lies about Charlie Kirk

19 September 2025 12:47 pm

The level of hate over the political assassination of Charlie Kirk has been absolutely horrendous. There have not only been…

Charlie Kirk: an examined life

18 September 2025 8:18 pm

‘Crito, we ought to offer a cock to Asclepius. See to it, and don’t forget.’ These were the final words…

Australia’s pension tax rules are a grave injustice

18 September 2025 4:43 pm

For all the talk from federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers about increasing economic productivity, including hosting his much-vaunted productivity roundtable, very…

Have we got a deal for Donald!!!

18 September 2025 1:44 pm

Imagine for a moment that you could separate the idiotic residents within a country… Put the idiots on one side…

Remembering Robert Redford, the man who lit up my youth

17 September 2025 8:28 pm

This week, Robert Redford, that golden-haired icon of American cinema, quietly slipped away at age 89, the same age my…

Cold shoulder for good intentions

17 September 2025 7:49 pm

80,000 fans joined Coldplay’s Chris Martin in a spontaneous shoutout to Charlie Kirk’s family at a UK concert over the…

The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk: a Muslim’s elegy 

17 September 2025 7:14 pm

I was seeing patients when the breaking news flashed on the TV screen in the waiting room. By the time…

A few good men and the truth we can’t handle

17 September 2025 1:06 pm

In that classic scene from the movie A Few Good Men, Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, played by Tom Cruise, is defending…

Australia’s housing push is bipartisan

17 September 2025 8:20 am

The Liberal Party has two traditions, conservatism and support for free markets. Normally, those movements are allies, but housing policy…

Climate Risk Assessment as a political manifesto

16 September 2025 5:36 pm

The Australian Climate Service this week released its National Climate Risk Assessment – a document cloaked in the authority of science…

Western Civilisation is not okay

16 September 2025 12:17 pm

Last Thursday was R U OK Day. To me, it’s never rated a mention. It feels performative and replete with…