Flat White

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

Victoria rejects clarity around self-defence

15 August 2025 12:37 am

The insane reasons given by Labor, the Greens, and Animal Justice

Housing: a government-manufactured crisis

14 August 2025 6:53 pm

Government fees and taxes almost double the cost of housing

The Minns AI disaster

14 August 2025 4:46 pm

A reckless ploy for union control over business

What would Tocqueville say about the NDIS?

14 August 2025 11:16 am

Compassion must not give way to dependency

The two-state delusion

14 August 2025 11:01 am

Albanese’s immoral and unlawful gift to terror

Bridge party

13 August 2025 11:29 am

The protest sector is booming

William Wentworth’s submission to the productivity roundtable

13 August 2025 10:54 am

The US often draws on the American Revolution in its public debates. Australia has the unparalleled achievement of our 1850s…

Polls, power, and the Pacific

13 August 2025 10:31 am

What Trump’s numbers mean for the US and Asia

Australians (should) have a right to defend their homes

13 August 2025 12:49 am

‘At the moment, in Victoria, there’s some exemptions for self-defence in your home, but we want them to look at…

Controlled by confidence: the unchecked power of AHPRA and the state

12 August 2025 2:14 pm

Professional regulation is supposed to exist to protect patients. But in Australia today, that purpose has morphed in something far…

Time for PNG to wake up to Canberra’s woke agenda!

12 August 2025 11:10 am

The term ‘Kokoda’ has been hijacked to support Canberra’s Woke agenda for our Pacific neighbours. Their campaign of stealth began…

Regulators are choking investment in the name of protection

12 August 2025 10:53 am

In February this year, the Federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations & Financial Services delivered a clear and carefully reasoned…

Putin’s word is worthless

12 August 2025 10:39 am

History is a tough teacher. Learn and win or ignore and fail. Our track record as humans is rather poor.…

Australian politicians react to Albanese’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state

11 August 2025 9:12 pm

Protests have consequences. Allowing a mob to strut across the Sydney Harbour Bridge was all the encouragement needed for Labor…

Tony Abbott doesn’t go far enough on energy policy

11 August 2025 4:14 pm

Australia’s renewable energy subsidies were underpinned by a con-job

Hamas are worse than the Nazis

11 August 2025 3:44 pm

I would not be surprised if a Nazi sympathiser or member of a neo-Nazi gang were to issue a statement…

A slave-loving people

11 August 2025 2:53 pm

A few weeks ago, the Sydney-based Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) released an interesting report, warning that, ‘A culture of…

EV hype hits the wall

11 August 2025 10:28 am

In the expensive march towards a Net Zero utopia, governments and green advocates have long touted electric vehicles (EVs) as…

Woke, broke, and can’t take a joke

10 August 2025 7:31 pm

When Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad boasted she has ‘great jeans’ liberals didn’t just hear a pun – they heard…

From Alaska with love: Trump, Putin, and the new Great Game

10 August 2025 6:18 pm

If you were hoping August would be a quiet month in geopolitics – just you, the footy finals, and maybe…

Speakman silent while renewables wreck regions

10 August 2025 5:13 pm

In the annals of political irony, few names fit the bill quite like Mark Speakman. Here we have a man…

Hiring Gen Z? I’m not quite over the shock

9 August 2025 7:56 pm

I think I’m getting old. I don’t feel old; in my mind I’m about 19. I have, though, started saying…

Islamic Nato and the dangers of ideological military alliances

9 August 2025 7:26 pm

According to a report published by the official news agency of the Islamic Republic (IRNA), the purpose of the recent…

The ongoing choice facing UK conservatives

9 August 2025 3:57 pm

Tribalism or an alliance to an unparalleled opportunity?

Forced marriage, multiculturalism, and a rise in human trafficking

9 August 2025 1:17 pm

The Australian Labor Party’s failure to see the failings of multiculturalism might be behind a record rise in human trafficking…