Flat White

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

Biden and big tech: a fatal mix?

31 January 2021 7:00 am

For many, Joe Biden is a welcome return to normalcy following four years of Trumpian antics. However, a return to…

The great Kiwi kowtow

30 January 2021 12:03 pm

News item: New Zealand Trade Minister advises Australia to show China more “respect”. New Zealand has offered to teach Australia…

Twitter’s new moderators: #Birdwatch or birdshot?

29 January 2021 4:05 pm

Birdwatching is a pleasant, passive sort of ‘niche’ activity. Avian enthusiasts go about their lives, keeping an eye out for…

It’s not just Albo and Labor. Both parties must meet mainstream Australia’s needs, not pander to special interests

29 January 2021 2:37 pm

If Labor’s reshuffle will be enough to correct the party’s woeful policy agenda and reconnect with mainstream Australians remains to…

The tragic lack of people of colour in … “wellness”

29 January 2021 12:32 pm

I had really hoped that the events of 2020 would’ve sharpened people’s priorities and perspectives. We had bushfires, a pandemic, economic uncertainty, family…

Australian style quarantine for visitors to the UK? Terry Barnes speaks to Spectator TV

29 January 2021 11:48 am

Boris Johnson has adopted a form of Australia’s coronavirus quarantine for Britain. Will it work? The Spectator Australia’s Morning Double…

Will WorkSafe act on Daniel Andrews’ hotel quarantine disaster? They need more time…

29 January 2021 4:00 am

The prosecution of the Victorian government for the 800–plus Covid deaths due to its massive mismanagement (or worse) will not happen quickly. Governments routinely don’t hold themselves accountable…

Who are you calling racist?

28 January 2021 6:35 pm

So it turns out that six men ejected from the third cricket test in Sydney for racist conduct weren’t racist…

What’s woke this week?

28 January 2021 4:01 pm

In my ongoing quest to ‘do the work’ and come to terms with my inherent white supremacy I discovered recently that ‘third world’ is a term…

Energy prices: the new fault line in politics

28 January 2021 1:31 pm

Energy has emerged as the clear new faultline in Australian politics. We see today Anthony Albanese is removing his fellow…

Annastacia Palaszczuk’s covid chutzpah

28 January 2021 12:15 pm

Chutzpah. A mellifluous sounding word that is difficult to translate, but kinda sorta means: Utter nerve; effrontery. A better way to…

Kelly’s heroes

28 January 2021 4:00 am

Craig Kelly’s existence poses an existential problem for the Liberal Party.  It is difficult to work out how far a political…

Never again – what?

27 January 2021 7:58 pm

I am challenged on this day, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to explain exactly what the world promised when it swore…

Tech stocks: party like it’s 1999?

27 January 2021 6:32 pm

A tech bubble eerily similar to the Dotcom crash of 1999-2002 is brewing. This time, fueled by Covid stimulus, social…

What’s on the Davos agenda?

27 January 2021 4:00 pm

International uber management consultants McKinsey have published a guide The Davos agenda for this week’s conferencing. “See what’s on the…

Only jokes will let us survive our new Clown World

27 January 2021 1:35 pm

The inauguration of President Joe Biden has heralded the onset, like no other event in recent times, of Clown World.  Conservatives, populists and sane people everywhere…

Barnaby, it’s time to leave the island

27 January 2021 11:31 am

It has long been evident to many that Barnaby Joyce’s time at the political trough has passed. In many respects,…

Dear reader, do I go and work for Twitter? Try to change the system from within?

27 January 2021 4:00 am

There is nothing like a good dose of irony to make me smile.  Look at what job recently popped up…

A modest proposal for Australia Day

26 January 2021 7:11 pm

It has become fashionable for some wokesters to object to Australia Day celebrations, even calling we modern Australians an occupying…

Wiping “Australia Day” from the Big Bash games: polling shows it’s another fumble by our feeble cricketers

26 January 2021 5:23 pm

In the wake of an underwhelming summer of cricket in which the Australians lost a home series to the depleted Indian squad, Australia’s governing body…

An honour with a great big crown on top for Malcolm

26 January 2021 3:35 pm

Lord Malcolm of Point Piper has finally received an official honour, the Companion in the Order of Australia, the AC.…

Time to make our gongs truly Australian: the Great Bloke, the Grouse Sheila and more

26 January 2021 1:31 pm

Outstanding Australians are honoured at this time every year in recognition of their contribution to our country. The problem is…

January 26: The Church of Woke’s one day of the year

26 January 2021 4:00 am

We are religious, as religion is an inescapable concept and everybody is religious. Religions have their holy days (from which we get…

The trust fund kids of the Guardian: too slack to even compile their own hit list

25 January 2021 6:11 pm

On January 21 and 22. the Institute of Public Affairs received correspondence about a planned register of think-tanks in Australia…

Bastard Bill unfit for public office

25 January 2021 3:27 pm

Bastard Bill’, ‘Slithering Shorten’ — call him what you will — confirmed again this weekend why he is comprehensively unfit…