Flat White

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

Reflections on CPAC: Trump, triumph and hope

6 March 2025 3:06 pm

Change is required if we’re to pave the path to prosperity. The promise and prospect of such change was the…

Time for a population policy

5 March 2025 5:05 pm

Back in 2019, then Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in a foreword to the government report, Planning for Australia’s Future Population…

Ukraine: the cost of peace

5 March 2025 2:30 pm

The confrontational meeting between President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Donald Trump (and Vice-President J D Vance) has dominated…

Misplaced green energy

5 March 2025 12:51 pm

Why are we always putting green energy assets in all the wrong places? The main electricity demand comes from big…

Can Australia reclaim the Port of Darwin?

4 March 2025 10:14 pm

The Northern Territory has entered into high-level talks with the Albanese government over the Port of Darwin, which is held…

Labor’s citizenship blitz: a masterclass in misreading migrants

4 March 2025 7:14 pm

Labor’s recent push to fast-track citizenship ceremonies ahead of the election is yet another spectacular demonstration of their disconnect from…

Canada, Greenland, Panama, Gaza, Ukraine … Australia?

4 March 2025 5:25 pm

The world is once again at a crossroads. With Donald Trump’s political resurgence and Vladimir Putin’s territorial ambitions, a disturbing…

Australia’s five best and worst public speaking professions

4 March 2025 4:33 pm

The five top public speaking professions: University lecturers Comedians Newsreaders Broadcasters Actors The five worst professional speakers by profession: Politicians…

Woke West stands with Ukraine, Trump deals with reality

4 March 2025 12:07 pm

The rules-based world order has been destroyed by the Wokerati. The United Nations, an institution designed to address the shortcomings…

Has King Charles wandered into politics?

3 March 2025 7:08 pm

King Charles III has been careful to remain out of the political mud-slinging disaster of UK politics. Well, aside from…

Fallacies about the Ukraine War

3 March 2025 2:17 pm

I don’t know if I just have a very strong gene for contrarian thinking. Or if years of working as…

A diplomatic dust-up for the ages

3 March 2025 11:54 am

With President Donald Trump’s re-election and his well-known views, Europe and Ukraine faced an in-tray from hell. Yet, their shock…

The vanishing American

3 March 2025 9:12 am

For the past few weeks, well before the first light of dawn, hundreds of big fishing boats towed behind equally…

Oradour and October 7

3 March 2025 8:52 am

Back in 1944, the Germans entered a small town in western France, Oradour-sur-Glane and massacred all but two or three…

Trump is a peacemaker, not a bully

2 March 2025 2:21 am

President Zelenskyy of Ukraine met US President Donald Trump in the White House, initially to finalise the detail on a…

Starmtrooper visits The Empire

2 March 2025 1:00 am

If the New World had a philosopher, it would be Thomas Hobbes. It would involve an account of the power…

Income splitting

1 March 2025 4:55 pm

One Nation has announced a new policy that would give ‘wage-earning couples with families a choice to file tax returns…

Greyhound racing: a heritage sport on the brink of extinction

1 March 2025 2:05 pm

Greyhound racing is on the brink of extinction. Once a celebrated heritage sport, it is now legal only in England,…

Individuals and crowds

1 March 2025 1:39 pm

Beware the creation of a mass narrative

The Greens’ policies are about to come crashing down

1 March 2025 12:22 am

Senator Hanson-Young’s inability to answer simple questions about Australia’s defence is representative of the Greens’ naïve worldview. In my opinion,…

How family tax cuts could help Australia thrive

1 March 2025 12:03 am

The constant increase in taxes and cost of living pressures have been particularly hard on families, making it difficult for…

WHO crowdfunds to save 760 GREMLIN labs

27 February 2025 11:46 pm

The World Health Organisation was one of the first targets of Donald Trump’s ‘drain the swamp’ agenda. On January 20,…

Trump Gaza: the AI video breaking the internet

27 February 2025 7:38 pm

Yesterday, US President Donald Trump woke up and decided to break the internet. It wasn’t particularly difficult. He posted a…

Adam Bandt and the climate refugees

27 February 2025 5:12 pm

The first rule of left-wing politics is: find a target victim group. The second rule of left-wing politics is: if…

The (un)environmental Teals

27 February 2025 3:54 pm

Australians are tired of virtue signalling