Flat White

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

Masterchef win leaves a bad taste in the mouths of the haters

14 July 2021 2:31 pm

First Hillsong won Australian Idol. Then, they won the Federal election. Last night they won Masterchef. It was all too…

Why I’m off to the Liberal Democrats

14 July 2021 1:04 pm

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s roadmap to normality was criticised as vague but it did contain one piece of substance –-…

Two more weeks of lockdown? This would change the pollies and penpushers’ minds

14 July 2021 11:30 am

The latest government edicts by New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian are proof that one can lose all the good…

The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Review Authority is failing the national interest test

14 July 2021 4:00 am

They say that a country is a state of mind rather than a place. It has some truth to it…

The sole-searing side of lockdown

13 July 2021 7:04 pm

This week the NSW government properly jumped the shark. Premier Gladys Berejiklian outlawed browsing and Police Assistant Commissioner Tony Cooke…

The real victim of Kev's korona kraziness?

13 July 2021 5:22 pm

As the story of Kevin Rudd’s Pfizer pfuckwittery keeps rolling along, no one seems to have stopped to ask who…

Will fairy dust power New Zealand?

13 July 2021 4:04 pm

Wishful thinking, allied to government incompetence and the ambition of our Prime Minister, is lining up trouble ahead. In one…

Their ABC: a closed society

13 July 2021 3:04 pm

Think closed secret societies and what do you come up with – the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta, even more closed and secretive…

Reject the propaganda of the sex industry

13 July 2021 2:00 pm

Following the publication of our piece in the Spectator (“It’s time outrage at sexual exploitation extended to prostitution”), former Liberal Democrat…

EXCLUSIVE Liberal Senator: we must reject vaccine passports

13 July 2021 12:00 pm

Everyone should be entitled to make up their own mind about their own medical care. There are many Australians who…

Covid: governments have ditched data for glamorous models

13 July 2021 4:00 am

On Saturday, The Guardian reported that ‘The final decision about 19 July [Britain’s “Freedom Day”] will be taken on Monday morning, based…

Towards a non-discriminatory Covid-19 risk assessment policy

12 July 2021 6:00 pm

In Australia, a Covid zero infection rate is still fervently pursued by the Commonwealth and states and territories. But the…

What have the Romans ever done for us?

12 July 2021 4:03 pm

The “Little Italy” Roman Legions in Lygon Street Carlton had their sweet revenge over the John Cleese/Boris Johnson Popular Front…

Pfizer: 100 per cent effective against the Tinfoil Twins

12 July 2021 2:00 pm

That paragon of journalistic impartiality Laura Tingle had a long and detailed report yesterday on how Kevin Rudd heroically intervened…

We’ve already got Danandrewstan. The nation can’t afford Gladystopia

12 July 2021 1:05 pm

These are testing times for New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian. This latest Covid outbreak is the biggest since the…

Why can’t the Margaret Court haters be a little more Ash Barty?

12 July 2021 11:06 am

Ash Barty’s historic Wimbledon win was a wonderful moment for the whole nation to come together … and to hate…

The Oldest Culture? Aboriginal astronomy

12 July 2021 4:00 am

The first in a series of articles examining Dark Emu-style claims. Just a few days ago, Bella d’Abrera from the…

Our ABC, Aborigines, bushfires, climate change, koalas and rainforest

11 July 2021 5:04 pm

After CSIRO published my Ecological History of the Koala in Wildlife Research, the ABC made a rare mistake. Fran Kelly interviewed…

No campaign to arm ourselves against the government?*

11 July 2021 3:31 pm

The luvvies on Twitter are going wild because the government is unveiling a vaccination campaign that has a military officer…

Our Afghanistan shame

11 July 2021 1:26 pm

There are multiple historic examples why the nation known variously as Afghanistan has been termed “the graveyard of empires”. This…

Do the bleeding hearts prefer Daniel Andrews’ Covid containment solution?

11 July 2021 11:37 am

The usual suspects have found a way to play the race card as Sydney’s coronavirus lockdown tightens. The Weekend Australian…

Is Australia racist?

10 July 2021 12:41 pm

Yes, I am writing another article making the claim that Australia is not a racist country. While some might think I have an obsession with the topic, I…

The SpecOz: afflicting the comfortable, comforting the afflicted. Or something similar

9 July 2021 3:53 pm

I appear to have hurt the feelings of a very powerful union. About three weeks ago, I wrote a piece…

Now more than ever small business needs to be paid on time

9 July 2021 1:15 pm

My heart was gladdened recently by the spectacular collapse of Greensill Capital, once a darling of the financial and (some) political elites in Australia and Britain. I…

The invisible man

9 July 2021 11:30 am

Here’s a screenshot of the Flat White email inbox from earlier this morning. Might the PM’s minders have finally realised…