Flat White

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

Gentle parents, ruthless children

6 November 2023 2:33 am

As someone perpetually infuriated by the general public, I’m not quite sure why I enjoy train travel so much. Taking…

Western decline is not inevitable: ARC tells a ‘better story’

6 November 2023 1:38 am

The inaugural Alliance for Responsible Citizenship forum held in London this week repudiated the direction our politicians are leading us.…

Victoria’s bonkers 30cm grass height rule to be ‘revised’

5 November 2023 3:43 pm

You can always count on the former Republic of Danistan to come up with a deranged idea. Last week, they…

Killing koalas to save wind farms?

4 November 2023 9:38 pm

‘Protecting koalas’ has been the favourite mantra invoked by Green groups and local councils to prevent basic services being built.…

ARC: to boldly say what the elites dare not

4 November 2023 5:07 pm

An audience of movers and shakers from around the world roared with laughter in London this week during a talk…

Catch 22 powers on

4 November 2023 2:23 pm

Recently I wrote an article titled Hello Darkness My Old Friend, which started out describing a romantic candle-lit dinner with…

The high cost of shoehorning Biden into the Presidency

4 November 2023 10:09 am

Shoehorning? I’m sure you know what I mean. It is this: I do not believe that Biden’s basement-delivered campaign in…

Israel, censorship, and the ten percent

4 November 2023 4:00 am

One of the side effects of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in various Western countries, including Australia, has been…

Sub-optimal desalination for sub-tropical Queensland?

3 November 2023 1:39 am

The present Queensland government’s Water Security Plan includes doubling the present capacity of the existing desalination plant at Tugun, and…

Superiority complex at the heart of elite activism

3 November 2023 12:59 am

The defeat of the Voice Referendum is no reason to rejoice, but rather a time for reflection. Indigenous communities need…

Spectacularly wrong on foreign policy

3 November 2023 12:51 am

It isn’t uncommon for foreign policy prognosticators to get things spectacularly wrong. What sets Jake Sullivan apart, in my opinion,…

Konstantin Kisin, ‘We are in the fight of our lives’

2 November 2023 3:25 pm

Stop whatever you’re doing and watch this speech by Konstantin Kisin at the inaugural ARC (The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship)…

Wikipedia at war

2 November 2023 3:51 am

Twenty years ago when I attended university, I was told by lecturers in no uncertain terms that Wikipedia should not…

The problem with green energy is … basic physics

2 November 2023 3:12 am

All green energy generation schemes are dishonest schemes, for various reasons. They all need enormous tax-payer funding to make them…

Centralisation, the Voice, and why the National Curriculum should be abandoned

1 November 2023 5:30 am

Centralised control results in a hierarchy of out-of-touch elites, neglects local agency, and creates unnecessary layers of red tape and…

Green, powerless, and defenceless

1 November 2023 5:00 am

As Net Zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless, and defenceless. History holds lessons that we ignore at…

Sick of Marvel? Watch these instead

1 November 2023 4:30 am

I think it’s safe to say that I’m getting sick of the same old superhero movies. The chances of me…

Toward a new totalitarianism

1 November 2023 4:00 am

There’s no doubt cultural-Marxist-inspired Woke ideology is destroying the best parts of Western Civilisation. Rationality, truth, and a spiritual or…

Airbus Albo has forgotten Alice Springs

31 October 2023 6:10 pm

It is unlikely Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will return to Alice Springs now the referendum is finished and there is…

Raining missiles, reigning lies: flags, ceasefires, and ‘proportionality’

31 October 2023 12:03 pm

The gentle, lispy tones of Tony Burke, Minister for the Arts and Workplace relations in the Albanese government, belie the…

What are the WHO up to this time?

31 October 2023 4:00 am

For most Australians, any distant international bureaucracy seems a world away from their everyday lives. When discussing the WHO (World…

De-banking Nigel Farage: a tale of politics, not commerce

31 October 2023 1:56 am

Documents that further vindicate Nigel Farage’s claim that he was de-banked by Coutts for political, not financial reasons, emerged last…

It’s the mens rea, stupid!

31 October 2023 1:08 am

The young female journalist-cum-activist from the ABC (suffering early onset bias) was asking Amir Maimon, the Israeli Ambassador to Australia,…

Statement from our former Prime Ministers

30 October 2023 10:04 pm

Six former Australian Prime Ministers, notably excluding Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating, have written and signed a two-page letter condemning…

Tearing up over ‘Friends’ lost

30 October 2023 11:26 am

Over the weekend I found myself ‘tearing up’ over the news that Matthew Perry had died, aged not much older…