Flat White

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

Flu vaccine mandates

22 January 2025 12:44 pm

A deeper look at efficacy, viral interference, and the influence of corporate interests

Dutton’s omissions matter

22 January 2025 12:11 pm

On Sunday, 12 January 2025, Australia’s Federal Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, in a widely reported speech, made a compelling case…

What lies next for the Middle Kingdom?

22 January 2025 9:46 am

Many mistook the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) tightening of what many believe to be an iron grip on Hong Kong…

Give it a rest, Elon was saluting Mars

21 January 2025 5:01 pm

We need to come up with a word for modern press hysteria which is obsessed with chasing the ghost of…

The dawn of Trump, the triumph of liberty

21 January 2025 12:57 pm

I’m not sure if you were up as early as I was, but the United States of America has a…

The wisdom of Pelosi, Obama (and Clinton)

21 January 2025 10:47 am

How to select a presidential candidate, Democrat-style

Biden’s tragic theatre: the legacy of a puppet president

20 January 2025 4:24 pm

There is a terrible fear that Joe Biden’s presidential term has been little more than a performance – a bad…

Nuclear energy to take centre stage at Davos

20 January 2025 1:20 pm

For decades, nuclear energy has been relegated to the sidelines of the global debate on climate change and clean energy.…

Israel and the reshaping of the Middle East

20 January 2025 12:14 pm

Fifteen months of attacks by Iran’s axis of resistance on Israel have proved to be a staggering strategic misjudgement that…

Is this the end of Australia Day politics?

20 January 2025 10:21 am

The battle of the vernacular and the political narratives around Australia Day finally seem to be reaching an exhausted truce.…

JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia

19 January 2025 7:36 pm

I read JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy years before he was popular. In fact, I bought his book while I was…

The pub test

19 January 2025 6:12 pm

Why is censoring pub talk on the ‘to do list’?

Social justice has a toxic subculture

19 January 2025 12:18 am

As the war between Israel and Hamas moves toward a potential ceasefire, one might expect calls for calm and relief…

Australia was not invaded

18 January 2025 11:58 pm

Was Australia invaded by Britain on January 26, 1788? For a growing number of people, our national holiday, which marks…

Multiculturalism in Australia, RIP?

18 January 2025 1:30 pm

‘Australia’s culture is multiculturalism.’ This was the answer my high school teacher gave when my class was discussing what Australian…

The Church is not meant to be a Holy hookup app

18 January 2025 11:08 am

The Pope’s declaration that he will admit gay men into the priesthood – provided they pinkie swear to remain celibate…

The post-Christian world is not pretty

17 January 2025 6:37 pm

Historian Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals, is the latest high-profile academic to convert to Christianity…

Trump’s threats reawaken Canadian nationalism

17 January 2025 3:22 pm

Canadians are living through interesting times. There are a few days left before Donald Trump officially returns to the White…

Whatever happened to the Ice Age?

17 January 2025 11:54 am

We are in the middle of another (supposedly) ‘unprecedented’ summer, so it is no surprise that sensationalising social media is…

Labor’s $3 billion NBN gamble

16 January 2025 6:22 pm

Value for money or desperate election pitch?

Farms for food: fossils for fuel

16 January 2025 2:25 pm

A cover story in The Economist, entitled, The coming food catastrophe, compiled sobering facts regarding worldwide food production and distribution.…

Slash the tax

16 January 2025 12:19 pm

Unburden overtime from what has been

Why it is vital the Victorian Liberals get it right this time

15 January 2025 3:00 pm

Australians in other states have long taken a quizzical view of Victorian politics. Many are rightfully baffled by the Victorian…

The media resent Dutton’s patriotism pledge

15 January 2025 1:23 pm

Who is spearheading the political narrative of Australia? Is it the robust debate between Coalition and Labor – the elected…

Housing catastrophe?

15 January 2025 8:10 am

Beware the government with a vision for the people