Flat White

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

Is it time we elected judges in Australia?

2 August 2025 7:57 pm

Despite the best efforts of legislators and police, ordinary Australians are being held to ransom by activist groups that, in…

Trump’s tariff wins? It’s FAFO, stupid

2 August 2025 7:18 pm

If you fear what Trump might do, that’s the whole point

Pro-Palestine Sydney Harbour Bridge march splits the Right

2 August 2025 6:28 pm

Shortly after the decision was made by the NSW Supreme Court to allow the controversial pro-Palestinian march to shut down…

New York has become the epicentre of useful idiots

1 August 2025 8:11 pm

From the DMZ, Korean Peninsula: July 27 marked the 72nd anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. In response, a series…

Farewell to the Australian Dream

1 August 2025 5:05 pm

Without homes, why should Gen Z care about Australia’s future?

Do you care, or just want to blame Israel?

1 August 2025 2:46 pm

We all say we care about hunger – especially when children suffer. And we should. But beyond the headlines about…

Stop banning things! Lock the criminals up instead

31 July 2025 10:04 pm

The Victorian Parliament is in a self-congratulatory state. They have banned machetes. Hurrah! That’s the end of youth crime. No…

Shine, baby, shine! Store, baby, store! The cringe is real…

31 July 2025 6:48 pm

If you squint, you can see Matt Kean loitering in the shadow of the outrageous Simon Stiell during his fear-mongering,…

Everyone’s shouting, no one’s listening?

31 July 2025 2:03 pm

The Jeffrey Epstein football is still being kicked around the political playground, with passes to and fro, but no goal.…

The crippling cost of workplace mental health claims

31 July 2025 1:36 pm

Leading businessman Ryan Stokes was recently reported in the press as raising concerns about the rapid rise in mental health…

Benchmarked into oblivion

31 July 2025 12:09 pm

NAPLAN is not so much a mirror as a house of mirrors

Whitewash at QUT

30 July 2025 6:55 pm

The Middleton Inquiry, commissioned by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), is a convenient whitewash of accusations of antisemitism made…

‘It’s time!’ to cease ‘Welcome to Country’ performances

30 July 2025 6:55 pm

What a farce it was in Canberra for the opening of Parliament… At least five different ‘Welcome to Country’ performances,…

Simon Stiell: the one-man climate disaster lectures Australia

30 July 2025 5:32 pm

Welcome to the UN’s fruity dystopia

Education nation

30 July 2025 5:16 pm

The great equaliser becomes the great disappointment

Destroy net zero, save the world

30 July 2025 2:05 pm

One Nation Leader, Pauline Hanson, introduced a private members’ bill on Net Zero as a Litmus test for the Coalition.…

Democracy demands civic competence, not just teenager passion

29 July 2025 2:19 pm

For many decades after Federation, the voting age for Australians was 21 – even when soldiers under the age of…

Decline in history education is creating a national identity crisis

29 July 2025 1:27 pm

History as a subject taught in Australian schools and universities is facing an existential crisis. Fewer students are choosing to…

Institutionalised childcare is failing children; it’s time parents had more choice

29 July 2025 11:53 am

The charges of alleged child abuse against Melbourne childcare educator Joshua Dale Brown have sent shockwaves around the country, searing…

Another trainwreck interview from ‘Listening’ Ley on Net Zero

28 July 2025 11:43 pm

‘You’re going to dump Net Zero, down the track, aren’t you?’ Opposition Leader Sussan Ley was asked the question outright…

Let’s abandon the cult of Net Zero

28 July 2025 4:46 pm

Climate alarmism increasingly resembles an apocalyptic religious movement. It relies on special revelation mediated by the elites, threatens the end…

Liberals seek to re-connect with business base

28 July 2025 1:45 pm

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has realised that the business community is to the Liberals what the unions are to Labor.…

Free speech vs. surveillance in the digital age

28 July 2025 2:42 am

Australia is quietly abandoning one of its most sacred inheritances: the right to speak freely. In its place, we are…

Albo’s TikTok dilemma

28 July 2025 2:28 am

Chinese social media giant TikTok is set to launch a constitutional challenge to Australia’s controversial social media ban for under…

Israel is not the problem, Mr Albanese

28 July 2025 1:49 am

Why, when Mr Albanese observed that Gaza is in the grip of a humanitarian catastrophe, did he immediately blame the…