Flat White

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

ABC frontliners drowning in their own sycophancy

30 August 2021 6:12 pm

Just how stupid do ABC marketers and presenters believe their audience actually is? On the evidence, the answer is very.…

‘We can no longer tolerate what ails us, nor its remedy’

30 August 2021 4:51 pm

Earlier in my career, in a very different world, I lived in China. It was possible, then, to stand on…

The PM and the Coalition's polling paradox

30 August 2021 3:38 pm

Today’s Newspoll is ugly for the Coalition, throwing their primary vote and two-party preferred deficit back into late Malcolm Turnbull…

Why does Annastacia Palaszczuk think National Cabinet’s roadmap to reopening doesn’t apply to her?

30 August 2021 1:17 pm

Queenslanders are now far too familiar with the snap lockdowns and border restrictions used by the state government to manage…

Can we get our money back on ADF chief Angus Campbell?

30 August 2021 11:31 am

In signals intelligence the term “look through” describes the tactic of penetrating deliberate noise and interference to reveal the real…

Have WorkSafe Victoria breached their statutory obligations over the hotel quarantine disaster?

30 August 2021 4:00 am

It’s been eight weeks since the Victorian WorkSafe Authority failed to send to the Director of Public Prosecutions its investigation…

The political extremism of the left: a sacred cow

29 August 2021 3:09 pm

Everyone that wants to combat dogma and extremism should support heretics, no matter what sacred cows they slay.  The fact…

Why I write or Hemingway’s chicken suit

29 August 2021 12:00 pm

Flat White lore is rich with stories of those who didn’t quite make it and those who did make it but we really wish hadn’t, and those who may make…

SpecOz TV – featuring Laurence Fox

29 August 2021 10:50 am

This month’s edition of Spectator Australia TV is out now. Gideon Rozner rocks and is joined this month by a…

What’s woke this week?

27 August 2021 1:00 pm

Traditional circuses are out of favour in Wokeworld where three rings are clearly not enough for their intersectionality bazaar. It’s…

If it’s up to the health experts, Covid restrictions will never end

27 August 2021 4:00 am

If it’s up to our health experts – doctors, scientists and researchers, administrators and bureaucrats – we will never return…

Cowardly Lions: Labor lets through the Coalition’s shameful electoral laws

26 August 2021 6:37 pm

Today, Labor waved the Coalition’s cowardly electoral laws described in these pages 11 days ago designed to strangle smaller parties…

The All Blacks, the All Whites – and how the demand for racism far exceeds supply

26 August 2021 5:00 pm

The demand for racism far exceeds supply. How else to explain New Zealand Football’s sudden concern that the nickname of…

New polling shows Australians won’t accept lockdowns once we hit jab targets

26 August 2021 12:30 pm

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is finally taking a stand against premiers wanting to keep wielding the lockdown weapon against Covid-19…

Police speak out on Covid regs: ‘The directions we are ordered to comply with are highly politicised’

26 August 2021 4:00 am

Two weeks ago the Western Australian Police Commissioner, Chris Dawson, issued an edict. As of Monday, 9 August, any officer…

Why are we ruled by political party patsies – as well as unelected MPs?

25 August 2021 6:11 pm

Some time back I learned a valuable lesson. At one of our annual Summer Sounds Symposiums, bringing together individuals from…

Continuous disclosure obligations: now with less activist tail wagging the corporate dog

25 August 2021 1:30 pm

It was 2012 and I found myself walking into the High Court in Canberra: shiny red soles on my stilettos,…

A lockdown opponent’s wish: may I be courageous like Soviet dissidents I knew

25 August 2021 4:00 am

At 58, I have for the first time become a dissident. I am in active opposition to Covid-19 related policies…

Australia, we’ve got you cowered

24 August 2021 6:19 pm

If you didn’t already think so, the news that police have received thousands of calls from Aussies dobbing in other…

ScoMo’s said ‘no’ – but this is why we need a ‘Freedom Day’

24 August 2021 6:05 pm

The great semanticist and one-time Republican senator from California, Samuel I. Hayakawa once remarked that language is thought in action.…

Just what is the Reserve Bank up to?

24 August 2021 4:00 pm

The conduct of monetary and fiscal policy since the pandemic began has no parallel in Australia’s economic history, certainly not compared to what happened during the more severe Spanish Flu a century ago.    Back then in the…

Governments, get real. Eliminating Covid from the community with fines is fantasy

24 August 2021 4:00 am

The unacceptable violence at Melbourne’s ‘freedom’ rally, the quieter Sydney and Adelaide rallies and the New South Wales/Queensland border ‘invasion’…

The Taliban take over The Age Green Guide

23 August 2021 4:00 pm

At a time when the world is going to hell and some perspective is desperately needed, thank God for the…

Scott Morrison and our Afghan allies: as shameful as Whitlam with South Vietnam

23 August 2021 1:00 pm

On August 18, 1971 then prime minister William McMahon announced the final withdrawal of Australian combat troops from Vietnam. It…

Let’s be more up-front and honest with the daily Covid numbers

23 August 2021 11:30 am

According to the federal Department of Health website, yesterday there were 10,956 active cases of Covid-19 across Australia. Of these,…