Flat White

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

Will the misinformation zombie rise in ’25?

30 November 2024 10:31 am

The stunning rebuke of the federal government’s proposed misinformation laws has seen freedom of speech live to fight another day.…

More university bureaucracy, more problems

30 November 2024 10:18 am

The modern world has a bureaucracy problem. When confronted with an issue, the typical response from government is to create…

Dear Mr Dutton, we want something else (with love from Barcelona)

30 November 2024 9:37 am

From Barcelona: It’s hard to escape Australian politics when I see examples of inaction all over the Iberian Peninsula. The…

Instead of democracy, we have autocracy

29 November 2024 11:51 am

I am sad to tell you that last night we saw the decline of our democracy. The Senate passed 32…

Under 16 social media ban passes the Senate

29 November 2024 6:54 am

As expected, without a public mandate or any sort of proper consultation, Australia has passed what is being described as…

Old Chisel, but no retro trip

28 November 2024 10:28 pm

My brother and I meet at Flinders Street Station and immediately notice we’re wearing identical clothing, as if it had…

A very very very bad government

28 November 2024 10:55 am

According to Anthony Albanese, ‘We came to office of course in 2022 with a number of challenges.’ His problem is…

Protecting freedom is how we keep our children safe

28 November 2024 6:25 am

Australia has dodged the censorial Misinformation and Disinformation Bill, and yet something much worse in on the way. Following a…

The Senate became a farce

27 November 2024 5:35 pm

The Editor-in-Chief of this publication, Rowan Dean, likes to refer to Canberra as a ‘Clown Show’ on his weekly Sunday…

The MAD bill is dead! The war on freedom continues…

26 November 2024 5:24 pm

In a rare moment of Senate sanity, members yesterday voted down the government’s outrageous censorship bill. This particular battle has…

How the Online Safety Amendment (under 16) Bill erodes trust

26 November 2024 5:08 pm

The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 further erodes any remaining trust we have in the government…

Justice denied

26 November 2024 1:27 pm

I have recently completed a video interview with a former NSW police prosecutor who contacted me because he was concerned…

How the West discovered meditation

26 November 2024 12:44 pm

Western medicine changed its mind about meditation in 2007. Up until then, meditation was on the blacklist as one of…

Feral left goes Full Monty across the Anglosphere

26 November 2024 11:07 am

The left in the Anglosphere, rather feral these days, has gone Full Monty. In the UK, Prime Minister Sir Keir…

The subconscious imprint of socialist language

26 November 2024 6:46 am

The rising tide of word inflation has sparked recent debates surrounding politically correct language. The ‘anointed’ – mainstream media talking…

Therapy Tips for film stars and singers

26 November 2024 6:08 am

What is it about movie celebrities (those who are highly skilled in pretending to be other people in pretend situations),…

Anti-coal protesters suffer through idyllic weather

24 November 2024 11:14 pm

Watching the Leader of the Greens paddle around in a synthetic raft, wearing plastic shades, complaining about the evils of…

The collapse of trans ideology

24 November 2024 10:54 pm

Apparently there is a debate about transgender access to women’s bathrooms on ‘The Hill’. Except, there is no ‘debate’. What…

Respect orders?

24 November 2024 8:55 pm

Two-Tier Keir, or as he is now known ‘Starmer the Stalinist’ following his Soviet-style attack on farmers, has proposed ‘Respect…

The Bureau of Guessology

24 November 2024 2:39 pm

On the far south coast of New South Wales, the prevailing breeze is a nor’easter. Over the past few days,…

Madrid’s bullfighting triumphs over ‘eating ze bugs’

24 November 2024 9:20 am

From Madrid: Madrid is better than Paris. That’s my advertising slogan for this great city. Instead of Midnight in Paris,…

The generation who want to shut you up

23 November 2024 7:42 pm

Last week I was invited to give a speech on the escalation of government censorship for Western Heritage Australia. We…

Labor’s 30 pieces of voting silver

23 November 2024 6:44 pm

The Jew with the bloodied torso was being brutalised, lashed, and abused. I was seated in row B of the…

Are female CEOs underpaid?

22 November 2024 10:54 pm

Workers should not be discriminated against on the basis of their gender. This is axiomatic and is enshrined in the…

The diminishing role of the parent

22 November 2024 9:52 pm

Why age limits on social media are not the solution