Flat White

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

Market forces: let’s get this party started safe

7 January 2019 3:11 pm

As we reach the peak of music festival season in Australia, it’s become an unfortunate probability that multiple young Australians…

Labor’s housing affordability mess: profit for the few, pain for the many

7 January 2019 11:21 am

Labor’s two-pronged housing affordability package has them rowing the same boat in both directions, expending a lot of taxpayer dollars…

Neil Prakash: leave him to his victims’ mercy

6 January 2019 12:47 pm

The controversy surrounding the government’s attempts to strip ISIS member Neil Prakash of his Australian citizenship is at a stalemate,…

Thugs welcome, bring guns

4 January 2019 10:49 am

The news is broadcast far and wide: California is a safe haven for foreign criminals, complete with instant welfare benefits…

Politics is getting nastier because we’re getting dumber

3 January 2019 5:57 pm

An intriguing argument from a British politician and writer Dan Hannan: The fall in IQ scores in the West is…

When it’s fine for the left to do a Fraser Anning

3 January 2019 9:24 am

Context and explanation meant absolutely nothing to the outraged leftist media complex collaborating with self-interested politicians when accusing Senator Fraser…

Truth tellers, beware

2 January 2019 2:57 pm

“Tell the truth and shame the devil,” the Inquisitors would  say But for some truth tellers, misery – even death…

Destructive Dutton shows why he bombed back in the spill

2 January 2019 12:07 pm

There’s delicious irony that political judgement was the at the heart of Peter Dutton’s divisive weekend outburst against former colleague…

Cirque du Sharia

1 January 2019 12:27 pm

Perhaps rejoicing at Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US forces from Afghanistan, the Taliban are working hard not to…

Singing out 2018

31 December 2018 9:12 pm

The end of the year is a time for reflection about the significant events and moments that have shaped the…

Dutton’s on the button, but…

30 December 2018 5:30 pm

In a wide-ranging interview with the Brisbane Sunday Mail , Peter Dutton unleashed on Malcolm Turnbull.  His comments were calculated…

A New Year’s resolution: thou shalt have fun

30 December 2018 9:40 am

The New Year holds promise for us all. A fresh beginning, a new start, a grand opportunity to start over.…

The looming Liberal extinction event

29 December 2018 3:24 pm

Malcolm Turnbull did not lead a ‘Labor-lite’ government. He led a Liberal government for the twenty-first century. I almost choked…

Underage #LoveWins in Germany

27 December 2018 4:44 pm

No age of consent? No problem. According to Die Welt, Germany’s Supreme Court has ruled it unconstitutional for the Fatherland…

Good news: peace on earth

24 December 2018 11:34 am

Christmas is a word which literally means the celebration of Christ. Santa Claus was once real, a good Christian chap…

And so this is Christmas

21 December 2018 1:52 pm

The bric-a-brac shop is brimming with glittering tinsel, snow-covered reindeer, cheery Santa dolls and wreaths.  I ask for a nativity…

Santa can exist in all of us – and so can good

21 December 2018 9:27 am

There are some things that it is difficult to face up to on your own. Boring Hollywood movies is one…

The forgotten meaning of Christmas

20 December 2018 2:34 pm

Not far from where I live, there’s a bustling Christmas market that draws big crowds, depicting life in first century…

Liberal luvvies for higher power prices

20 December 2018 8:39 am

Politicians as targets of the French gilets jaunes are omnipresent in Australia and have, with their climate change-driven energy policies,…

Merry Xmas, literally Just Like Hitler

19 December 2018 4:20 pm

And so this is Christmas. That time of year when you make a list of all the people that aren’t…

The Nats have a woman problem – and solution

19 December 2018 7:50 am

In recent days the Nationals “women problem” has once again been thrust back into the national spotlight, with the Andrew…

Give it to me straight, Doc

18 December 2018 2:23 pm

Here’s a statistic you wouldn’t read about – at least not in any medical association playbook. John Hopkins University in…

Universities want to have their cake – and censor it

18 December 2018 8:20 am

Universities have entered a bargain with the devil. Universities accept significant state direction in exchange for privileges and funding. Universities…

Jesus wasn’t a refugee

17 December 2018 5:27 pm

It’s become quite fashionable with the advent of social media for rank amateur theologians to posture as experts on Christian…

A history of Jihad

16 December 2018 1:38 pm

The Communists relished having hordes of “useful idiots” in the West to readily carry out their agenda and became their…