Flat White

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

The siege of the shrine

12 January 2022 4:00 am

‘Stop making me do this,’ he said, as he pounded my head into the ground with his plastic shield. ‘Stop…

It’s a win for ‘Novax’ and a win for Australia

11 January 2022 12:00 pm

I’m glad that Novak Djokovic will have a chance to defend his title at the Australian Open. Good luck ‘Novax’.…

The importance of informed consent in the Covid era

11 January 2022 9:00 am

It used to go without saying that the morality of medical practice rested on informed consent. It is enshrined in…

The faux outrage over Dr Robert Malone

11 January 2022 4:00 am

With school set to resume in a few weeks’ time, panic is being whipped up about children not getting their…

Morrison, this is how the Liberals win the next election

10 January 2022 12:00 pm

For too long we have endured the creeping takeover of our country, and the trashing of our society by the…

Universities are hanging men out to dry

10 January 2022 4:00 am

Four days before Christmas one of our elite universities committed an act of total bastardry; they announced they were firing…

Why does getting a Covid test in NSW feel like winning the lottery?

9 January 2022 12:00 pm

The odds of winning the lottery are, well, like winning the lottery… Your chances are bleak, but you put your…

Science and morality: woke universities have lost their way

9 January 2022 4:00 am

Imagine if you can, a place where children are reared to adulthood, educated from kindergarten to year 12, before heading…

There’s nothing more frightening than a woman in politics

8 January 2022 12:00 pm

It is difficult to argue that women are the less capable gender when they have spent the last ten million…

For experts, they are sure fudging a lot of statistics

8 January 2022 4:00 am

When you analyse data, at times, you’re trained to be skeptical. The classic data tropes apply. Correlation isn’t causation. For…

Australians ‘open’ to becoming RAT addicts

7 January 2022 4:00 pm

Sudafed-style ID checks are about to be brought in to make sure Australians don’t end up as RAT addicts. 2022…

Hating on Novak has become a national sport

7 January 2022 2:00 pm

The whole country is hating on Novak Djokovic right now because he had the courage to do what most of…

Australia’s giant green gamble on solar energy toys

7 January 2022 12:00 pm

By the time solar energy reaches Earth’s surface, it is spread very thin – even midday sunshine will not boil…

The numbers don’t lie – or do they?

7 January 2022 4:00 am

Since the beginning of the Covid era, much of the focus has been around numbers. Case numbers, hospitalisations, ICU admissions,…

Attention Liberals: your country needs you

6 January 2022 4:00 pm

The Liberal Party platform, with its values and freedom, is the best way to ensure a happy and thriving democracy.…

The New Year’s Eve exorcism for ABC viewers

6 January 2022 2:00 pm

ABC viewers manifested as if undergoing an exorcism when Tina Arena ended the national broadcaster’s New Year’s Eve telecast by…

The four horsemen of the economic apocalypse

6 January 2022 12:00 pm

The appearance of Covid brought a resurgence of fears of Armageddon. Conscious of mankind’s imperfections, ancient settled societies envisaged a…

You can’t film that!

6 January 2022 4:00 am

Blanket bans on secret recordings are an affront to freedom. Fortunately, animal rights activists are doing Australians a favour by…

Don’t blame Novak Djokovic

5 January 2022 12:57 pm

The unhinged fury levelled at Novak Djokovic has revealed a dark undercurrent to Australia’s Covid narrative. As the ATP world…

Covid maths: two plus two equals five…?

5 January 2022 12:00 pm

Everyone has made mistakes in mathematics, but some mistakes are more important than others. In a contract I was working…

Who guards The Guardian?

5 January 2022 4:00 am

The UK Guardian deactivated its online poll that asked readers to vote for their ‘Person of the Year’. The reason?…

People in glass houses…

4 January 2022 4:00 pm

Every family has one, the curmudgeonly old relative who broods annoyingly in the background – except for special family occasions…

Russia is empire-building while Australia sleeps

4 January 2022 12:00 pm

While Australia kept itself busy arguing about which politician to box up and airfreight to the COP26 snore-fest, Russia spent…

Covid ‘rebels’ and the Eureka Stockade

4 January 2022 4:00 am

There’s a band of people who see themselves as the ‘keepers’ of the Eureka Stockade tradition, and they are much…

Woke Cricket Australia trashes Australia Day by pandering to activists

3 January 2022 1:48 pm

Cricket Australia racked up a first this week, away from the MCG and the embarrassment that was the MCC cricket…