Flat White

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

The slippery slope to socialism

29 December 2022 7:00 am

I have the heater on in mid-summer Australia, so it makes sense that ‘they’ changed ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’…

A ‘borderless world’? Not for carbon!

28 December 2022 11:15 am

The European Union has long been known as a collection of bad ideas. On brand, it has decided to become…

Australia’s democratic backslide

28 December 2022 10:00 am

Democracy is the backbone of the Australian way of life. By global standards, Australia’s electoral and democratic institutions are at…

Bin chickens chow down on cane toads

28 December 2022 6:00 am

Cane toads have long been painted as an existential threat to Queensland’s ecosystem. Since their deliberate introduction in 1935 by…

Australia and a Pacific ‘shape up’ in 2023 

28 December 2022 4:00 am

This year, the Pacific Islands clearly featured much more vividly in Australian politics. Near-state collapse in the Solomon Islands, matched…

What should we go to war over?

27 December 2022 7:00 am

Foreign Minister Penny Wong went to Beijing to meet with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to mark the 50th anniversary…

Did the Victorian elections ignore the Constitution and Human Rights Charter?

27 December 2022 4:00 am

When the Bracks government in Victoria established an Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission in 2006 it bragged that it…

Childish China threatens Taiwan (again)

27 December 2022 2:20 am

China has decided to finish the year by antagonising Taiwan. Reports indicate that 71 planes and 7 military ships were…

A Christmas tree vs. the fringe gender activists

26 December 2022 10:00 am

Authorities in the little town of Dedham Massachusetts went into damage control this week after abandoning the town’s decades-long tradition of displaying…

My Christmas wish

25 December 2022 8:00 am

To my fellow Australians… During this Christmas festival may you be enveloped with the love of family and friends. May…

Post-Covid and extremely merry

25 December 2022 6:00 am

Is it just me or is everyone getting pretty merry about the festive season this year? First, we had the…

Marxism withers without a victim

25 December 2022 4:00 am

‘Religion is the opium of the people,’ is the famous Karl Marx put-down, which he wrote in 1843 and which…

No Christmas card from the Liberal leader

25 December 2022 3:00 am

It seems I have upset Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. The Liberal Party leader wrote a scathing letter, published in The…

An Australian Christmas

24 December 2022 2:30 pm

When I was small, Christmas meant visiting my nan in St Ives. Her house existed in a state of chaos,…

Letter to the Editor: Peter Dutton

24 December 2022 12:41 pm

Leader of the Liberal Party Peter Dutton issues a response to an earlier article by author James Macpherson. Got something…

‘Away with the Manger’: Christmas hijacked by politics

24 December 2022 10:00 am

Away with the manger; no wisemen from afar; the little Lord Jesus; replaced by Indigenous art!

Religion as a political football

24 December 2022 7:00 am

It’s no secret that many on the progressive Left despise Judeo-Christian faiths and their legacy on Western Civilisation. Their pro-Islam…

Phelps breaks AHPRA’s culture of fear

23 December 2022 2:06 pm

Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has been a household name in Australia since the 1990s. I remember well her frequent appearances…

Saving the planet at high speed

23 December 2022 10:00 am

Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has saved his forests from the sustainable, renewable timber industry. (Saving our forests and controlling…

Deny Daniel Andrews Communion?

23 December 2022 7:00 am

Christmas is coming and Daniel Andrews, a self-professed Catholic, has been naughty, not nice. His actions, words, and policies often…

Liberal review heads in the Right direction

23 December 2022 4:00 am

After considerable media teasing, the-anticipated report into the Liberal Party’s electoral failure last May has finally been released. Conducted by…

Chris Bowen’s rendezvous with bad ideas

22 December 2022 9:00 am

Back in July 2022, Chris Bowen the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, launched the latest CSIRO electricity costs report which…

Bitter politics

22 December 2022 4:00 am

I have two mottoes. This first is ‘never look back’ and the second, and more important one in these troubled…

Kerryn Phelps’ vaccine injuries: the silence is deafening

21 December 2022 4:25 pm

‘…but-but-but we’re not one of those crazy, far-right, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theory, cooker, anti-vaxxers!!! We really did suffer from serious vaccine side effects!’ The…

Betray back better

21 December 2022 10:00 am

Early on in March 2020, I was leery of the hysteria surrounding Covid and decided my course of action was…