Flat White

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

The greenest lemmings in the world

22 June 2022 12:00 pm

Australia’s new ALP/Green/Teal government has a Zero Emissions plan, putting them on track to be the victor in the Great…

Activism is destroying ‘truth’

22 June 2022 11:00 am

Maybe it was personal reasoning, but much more likely it came from the guidance of a very wise father… As…

Eat crickets! Potential Victorian ban on hunters sharing meat

22 June 2022 8:00 am

Updated agriculture legislation in Victoria has been interpreted as a ban on hunters, and farmers sharing game meat with family…

Australia and Canada share scary wildlife

22 June 2022 7:00 am

#OnlyInAustralia is trending after an old man in the Northern Territory walked up to a huge crocodile and nonchalantly banged it…

Adam Bandt insults Australians by ditching flag

22 June 2022 6:00 am

Ahead of a press conference with Greens Leader Adam Bandt earlier this week, a Greens staffer moved the Australian flag…

Boiling in the Culture Wars pot

22 June 2022 4:00 am

In recent decades, the West – like the proverbial frog – has been blasé toward the rising temperature of the…

Greta furious over China’s new oil deal! (Just kidding)

21 June 2022 7:28 pm

Dragging Australia over the coals of climate guilt is practically a registered sport for the IPCC. Despite being a Carbon negative…

The working class revolution of common-sense

21 June 2022 11:00 am

What we saw in Melbourne during the tradie riots was a supreme act of sound judgment. Only a fraternity of…

The Winter of discontent

21 June 2022 8:00 am

To paraphrase from William Shakespeare’s Richard the Third – ‘Now is the winter of our discontent made inglorious by renewable…

The world’s most expensive flagpole

21 June 2022 6:00 am

As soon as the New South Wales state government finishes putting the Aboriginal flag atop Sydney Harbour Bridge, they need…

Albo’s war against Capitalism

21 June 2022 4:00 am

Seeking to disabuse critics of the notion that his interest and expertise in economics were Whitlamesque, Anthony Albanese released a…

Women’s rights triumph (sort of)

20 June 2022 2:10 pm

Far from the feminist Utopia, progressive politics underpinned by radical gender activism has created a generation of women too afraid…

From Istanbul, with confusion

20 June 2022 1:00 pm

Few cities stir the adventurer’s soul as Istanbul – that vast, sprawling mass straddling Europe and Asia which acts as…

Coal to the rescue?

20 June 2022 11:30 am

What sort of a third-world country have we become, with an abundance of natural resources, that ‘load shedding’ or electricity…

Australia’s corporate Surveillance State

20 June 2022 11:00 am

During the mid-20th century, George Orwell famously wrote a novel featuring the sinister embodiment of surveillance, the Big Brother State.…

The West: last refuge of the ‘Regressives’

20 June 2022 8:00 am

Recently, Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi made an address to the Iranian people, who have been protesting against the brutal Islamist…

Sir John Kerr: villain or victim?

20 June 2022 4:00 am

Over the years since 1975, partisan players have mounted an ongoing campaign to vilify Sir John Kerr. They claim, variously,…

Social Licences: destroying energy with virtue

19 June 2022 1:00 pm

‘Social Licences’ are the mechanism by which governments can pick and choose favourites in the business world. They represent a…

The election and its discontents

19 June 2022 11:00 am

So, the election has come and gone. It was a disappointing, loud, and ultimately vacuous show about nothing. It saw…

Renewable or reliable? Energy cannot be both

19 June 2022 6:00 am

Australia’s new ALP government has gigantic green energy plans to be funded by electricity consumers and taxpayers. They promise (with…

Cook cancelled: when will we call this out as racism?

18 June 2022 6:46 pm

Peaceful explorer, cartographer, and navigator Captain James Cook has been removed from the Australia versus England Test match crystal Cook…

Covid encore performance for Justin Trudeau

18 June 2022 11:00 am

Multi-jabbed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has Covid for the second time this year. Trudeau announced his latest helping of Covid on…

Wokeness, welfare, and societal decline

18 June 2022 8:00 am

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Today’s fiddle is ‘Woke’ and it will be the West’s undoing if left unchecked. Busy…

The real cost of Albo’s minimum wage hike

18 June 2022 6:00 am

No genius formula, ancient wisdom, or otherwise elaborate algorithm led the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to raise the national minimum…

Australians are being watched

17 June 2022 4:52 pm

If it’s not bad enough that Australians have had their retail habits monitored via the (ethically questionable) government Vaccine Passport…