Flat White

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

Legislating identity

3 July 2025 8:57 pm

The erosion of sex-based rights & a free speech victory that fought back

Bowen’s hydrogen mirage has vanished

2 July 2025 6:22 pm

The hydrogen economy, once heralded as the future of clean energy, is unravelling as I write. A few years back,…

Vylan and 18C – how the West can be won again.

2 July 2025 6:00 pm

During what some have dubbed ‘Nuremberg at Glastonbury’, we heard, thanks to the BBC for their unfiltered live-stream, death chants…

Rain rights and wrongs

2 July 2025 4:41 pm

South Australia’s crackdown on rain reveals a deeper cultural drift

How feminist ideology captured psychology

1 July 2025 3:30 pm

How refreshing to discover an anti-feminist psychiatrist. Very few people in the ‘helping professions’ have the courage to openly oppose…

The Alice in Wonderland productivity roundtable

1 July 2025 2:14 pm

It is a humbling experience to be a leader in a democracy. It requires the recent Coalition concession that they…

It’s time for a Reform Australia Party

1 July 2025 12:28 pm

Populism has been defined as an approach to politics that pits a champion of the commonfolk against elites. Right-wing populism…

Fake apocalypses are an economic scam

1 July 2025 11:46 am

In a world obsessed with the apocalyptic hellfire of ‘carbon’ and the terror of an imperceptibly warmer climate nowhere near…

More failures in union leadership

30 June 2025 11:59 am

Australian workers face a pattern of betrayal from union leaders. This week, the Victorian branch of the Health Services Union…

The Iranian tragedy

30 June 2025 11:28 am

A nation that fears peace, but not war

Jaws turns 50 but still resonates with today’s audiences

30 June 2025 9:56 am

Steven Spielberg’s cinema blockbuster and directorial masterpiece Jaws recently turned 50. Released in 1975, its influence on popular culture remains…

Climate change strikes Canberra

30 June 2025 9:29 am

Like a GBU-57 bunker buster, global warming turned into global boiling and then suddenly turned into weather so cold it…

Jobs for the girls will not save the Liberals

30 June 2025 9:17 am

Conservatives hate gender quotas, including women

Tony Burke’s detention inaction

29 June 2025 7:29 pm

The Albanese government’s refusal to detain dangerous criminals, citing legal barriers, is a shameful abdication of responsibility. Home Affairs Minister…

Tax the rich? Millionaires take flight

28 June 2025 10:55 pm

They are calling it a ‘Wexit’ – wealth exit

The ABC and Ms Lattouf

28 June 2025 5:17 pm

The chickens came home to roost and it cost Aunty plenty

Primary teachers: the new parents

28 June 2025 4:19 pm

A mental health crisis created by compassion

Australian government lacks courage to create unity

28 June 2025 12:12 pm

The bombing of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities in Iran under the approval and direction of US President Donald Trump…

War and diplomacy in the 21st Century

28 June 2025 12:01 pm

It used to be said that war was a continuation of diplomacy by other means. Now we can cut out…

The kids aren’t alright

27 June 2025 6:45 pm

This was another week in what has become a regular occurrence – being contacted by concerned parents seeking advice on…

A historic handshake in Paris

27 June 2025 2:29 pm

IAEA nuclear partnership changes everything

Grim university rankings show Australia is losing where it counts

27 June 2025 11:12 am

On the surface, things look reasonably good for Australia’s higher education system. According to the QS World University Rankings, we…

Albanese’s path to irrelevance

26 June 2025 10:07 am

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is proving to be a leader defined not by vision or conviction, but by a chronic…

What the K’gari dingoes need

26 June 2025 9:48 am

I’m a bit jaded because a ranger on Fraser Island (renamed K’gari by the Qld Labor government in 2023) has…

Coalition no match for Labor’s ruthless Net Zero agenda

26 June 2025 8:55 am

For many years Australian policy has been moving backwards in the pursuit of cheap, reliable energy. The policy has now…