Flat White

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

Vale, Simon Crean

26 June 2023 4:23 am

Former Labor Leader Simon Crean (1949-2023) has died aged 74 while hiking in Germany. It has been reported that the…

Afghanistan’s fall and the flaw of unadulterated idealism

25 June 2023 5:00 am

Two years since America’s calamitous and reckless withdrawal from Afghanistan, turning it over to the Taliban, the country has experienced…

I’m from the government, and I’m here to threaten you

25 June 2023 4:00 am

These days I try to limit my TV viewing to sport. Every other genre, from drama to game-show to (especially)…

Why do we hate billionaires?

24 June 2023 5:44 pm

Sometimes it takes a crisis and its accompanying trending news headlines to reveal the murky ideological creatures swimming under the…

So… You want to buy a house?!

24 June 2023 6:00 am

First, write down on paper the kind of house you want with the required number of rooms and toilets. Consider…

Woke-ifying the Essendon logo has bombed out

24 June 2023 5:00 am

Generally, stakeholder consultation is a good thing to do; regular rapport being a great lubricant for productive relations between any…

Food security and property rights under threat in Western Australia

24 June 2023 4:00 am

The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (ACH) comes into effect on the July 1, 2023, in Western Australia (WA). Ostensibly it…

Partying like it’s 1901

23 June 2023 1:55 pm

When the bill to authorise a referendum on the Voice to Parliament was passed in the Senate on June 19,…

Parents kept in the dark about gender

23 June 2023 5:00 am

Should a school or a student’s parents decide whether the child can be involved in gender transitioning? In Australia, material…

Children born alive bill: a moral test for our Parliament

23 June 2023 4:30 am

At some point in the not-too-distant future, Australia’s federal Parliament will vote on whether a baby born alive during an…

You have been misled, Australia had a glorious Great Depression

23 June 2023 4:00 am

Nothing in Australia is as Americanised as our perception of the 1930s and the Great Depression. The American reality of…

Grigory Klinishov: when men played with fire

23 June 2023 1:31 am

‘The most nuked place on Earth…’ This is how the Semipalatinsk 18,500 square km testing ground on the Kazakh Steppe…

What are eco-fascist concepts doing in Australia’s law?

22 June 2023 6:30 am

Recent Australian High Court rulings on issues of Aboriginality have taken a strange turn, and not for the better. It…

Sinking the nation

22 June 2023 6:00 am

The Korean Ferry Sewol, at 20 years old, had already been on the Incheon to Jeju run for just over…

A tale of two leaders

22 June 2023 5:00 am

This Flat White article is written by a guest author. This is a tale of two Liberal leaders in Australia:…

Central banks need laxer inflation targets

22 June 2023 4:00 am

The cost of reducing inflation to 2 per cent seems too high

Thorpe: The King’s position is to wipe us out

21 June 2023 5:30 am

Yesterday, the Australian Senate passed legislation enabling the Voice to Parliament referendum to take place in the next 6 months. Constitution…

Local scientists use AI to determine Covid is ‘extremely well adapted for humans’

21 June 2023 5:00 am

‘Pandemic’ might be the first prominent ‘P-word’ one might use to describe the period between 2020-22, and now ‘polarising’ very…

Why Menzies still matters

21 June 2023 4:30 am

Matthew Bach’s piece Menzies is dead. It’s time for the Liberals to forge a new path in The Age on June…

The West’s child exploitation scandal: groomers and abusers

21 June 2023 4:00 am

One Nation is referring the Classification Board to a Senate inquiry regarding the creep of inappropriate content that has made…

The world’s next China will be … China. What will Australia be?

20 June 2023 6:00 am

Are we really going to be the lucky country forever? Or are we actually the stupid self-indulgent teenage brat of…

The courage to ‘speak the truth’

20 June 2023 5:00 am

A recent Spectator Australia article by Victorian Liberal MP Beverley McArthur, in which she criticised Geelong Council’s decision to cancel Australia…

Labor and the LNP wage war on women and girls

20 June 2023 4:00 am

The war on girls and women intensified last week with the Palaszczuk Labor government becoming the latest state to pass gender…

Cooking with(out) gas: how green politics steals from Australians

20 June 2023 2:18 am

If you believe the Greens and their ‘yes men’ posse of MSM papers, Australia is banning gas to save the…

Spectator TV Australia: the separation of powers and the Voice

19 June 2023 9:43 pm

From the IPA, Scott Hargreaves identifies an important legal issue of where the Voice sits on the separation of powers.…