Flat White

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

Professional politics: in the name of the people, with contempt for the people

29 June 2018 11:30 am

Politicians are building more barriers to repel the views of their voters, and a directionless centre-right is at the forefront.…

It’s official: Australia is not dangerous for women

29 June 2018 8:01 am

If you listen to screeching hysteria of extremist exhibitionist feminist activists, you’d think women are in perilous danger every moment…

Caught by the Shorten curlies?

28 June 2018 5:19 pm

Can you imagine the temperature under Bill Shorten’s collar right now? Positively boiling. His neck is probably generating sufficient heat…

Guess who’s got a poll next year?

28 June 2018 4:04 pm

Every budget has a theme, whether real or concocted. For the NSW budget tabled last week, the theme is “putting…

Consent? Hell no!

28 June 2018 1:02 pm

Charles Sturt University in New South Wales has introduced a compulsory, intensive education program for first-year students. Students watch and…

Are we banning single-use condoms too?

28 June 2018 10:32 am

I heard it on ABC News Radio so I am sure it is correct. The presenter interviewed Peter Whish-Wilson the…

Discrimination, or just good brain function?

28 June 2018 8:06 am

It’s home economics class at the pre-school. Today the children are learning about kitchen utensils. The teacher has almost exhausted…

The ABC needs reforming – and fast

27 June 2018 5:50 pm

While the government has ruled out the privatisation of the ABC, the almost 2:1 vote in favour of doing so…

Religion, repentance and refugees

27 June 2018 4:09 pm

Tonight, in the national capital, Brian Douglas, the Rector of St Mark’s Anglican Church at Manuka and the Archdeacon on…

Never interrupt your enemy

27 June 2018 1:16 pm

Napoleon Bonaparte once observed, ‘never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake’. Politics can be defined as war…

Children, migration and blackmail

27 June 2018 7:46 am

Children are an endless source of moral blackmail in causes of the Left. Nowhere is this truer that in migration.…

Catholic schools should trade funds for freedom

26 June 2018 6:01 pm

A centre-right government and the largest non-government school system in Australia should be natural allies. But you wouldn’t think so,…

Time to rediscover the enlightenment with the lighten-upment

26 June 2018 12:03 pm

Wit and wisdom go together like … a gin and tonic? Whatever. They add fizz and flavour to the everyday,…

That precious poppet is yours, not the state’s

26 June 2018 7:57 am

We are living in the age of entitlement. Need proof? Take a quick look at the curious demands of left…

Everything wrong with Australian politics in just one paragraph

25 June 2018 9:36 pm

From today’s Australian, everything that is wrong with our politics in just one paragraph: There’s no need to add anything…

That Nobel’s looking better, people

25 June 2018 6:01 pm

It’s early days yet, but this is an interesting — and swift — development. The BBC reports: Over the past…

Taylor Swift still isn’t interested in politics

25 June 2018 4:31 pm

You have to wonder if celebrities have a clause in their contract to voice their political opinions, but more specifically…

Dear men, it’s time to quit work

25 June 2018 1:15 pm

In news we apparently all missed Australia is rich. As a country we have zero debt and therefore the marvellous…

When the left became louche

25 June 2018 7:51 am

I discovered a new word this week: ‘louche’. Just in case you hadn’t heard of it before either, according to…

Happy birthday Brexit, c’mon CANZUK

24 June 2018 2:56 pm

With the two-year anniversary of the Brexit referendum now upon the United Kingdom, the realities of a life outside the…

American mania

24 June 2018 2:55 am

America’s current crisis over illegal immigration, family separations and border policies generally, have highlighted and exacerbated the nature of America’s…

The real carbon crisis

23 June 2018 3:06 pm

We’ve got a real carbon crisis, people. Associated Press explains: No beer at this time of year? A British trade…

Tax cuts? What tax cuts?

22 June 2018 5:56 pm

The government has pulled a switfy. They’ve got everyone thinking they are going to cut taxes. They aren’t. Taxes are…

How identity politics programs for failure

22 June 2018 4:14 pm

Safe spaces. Cry closets. Emotional support animals. While Australian campuses are yet to import such features the notion of restricting…

The Ramsay Centre and how our academic appeasers censor students’ right to learn

22 June 2018 12:49 pm

The University of Sydney’s jellyback Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence has given many excuses for why he may not accept the money…