Flat White

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

World Bank woes

19 June 2023 6:00 am

The World Bank has a great cosmopolitan air to its name – not like one of those parochial institutions like…

Children behaving badly

19 June 2023 5:30 am

Something is going seriously wrong with our children. Standards are declining in education; manners and respect are forgotten; ignorance, expectation,…

Are health regulators turning a blind eye to puberty blockers?

19 June 2023 5:00 am

With a never-ending increase in red tape across the healthcare industry, you might be surprised to learn that ‘gender-affirming care’…

Time and tithe: the Climate Cult’s expensive virtue

19 June 2023 4:00 am

Virtue has always been for sale. The oldest fragments of human civilisation contain tributes left for the gods in a…

The Bowen Basin coal pioneers – Collinsville, Thiess, and Utah

18 June 2023 5:00 am

When they erect a huge monument to the coal pioneers of the Bowen Basin, three groups must be prominent: The…

New Zealand: are bilingual road signs safe?

18 June 2023 3:43 am

At a time when the dilapidated state of New Zealand’s roads are a major public concern and the government has…

Grifting on the Royal brand…?

17 June 2023 7:06 pm

‘The F***ing Grifters… That’s the podcast we should have launched with them.’ These were the frustrated words of Bill Simmons,…

More than PR clichés

17 June 2023 5:00 am

After an individual at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia allegedly breached confidentiality agreements and disclosed upcoming government tax policy to colleagues and…

Female trauma and political capital

17 June 2023 4:30 am

The case of Brittany Higgins has brought me into a number of conversations about the way the criminal justice system…

Alan Jones: Albanese in a mess

17 June 2023 4:00 am

There is no doubt that in politics, worldwide, the Left are in the ascendant; but they enjoy undeserving support from…

Misinformation, disinformation, and cloudy thinking

16 June 2023 12:46 pm

I have a friend, well educated and aware of current affairs, but I always seem to have some sort of…

Always Sunny: going where others wouldn’t dare

16 June 2023 6:00 am

Few would believe me If I said that a show about a group of politically incorrect, sociopathic, and narcissistic alcoholics…

Amazon shuts down smart home after hate speech allegation

16 June 2023 5:00 am

News of Amazon allegedly locking out a smart home user over hate speech allegations is raising questions about technocratic overreach.…

Education, education, education

16 June 2023 4:00 am

It is indubitable that a good education leads to a better life for those who are fortunate enough to receive…

In need of a tree?

15 June 2023 5:00 am

As traumatic accounts of families struggling to pay their mortgages or rent fill our newspapers and TV screens, spare a…

Save the planet … sacrifice a child?!

15 June 2023 4:30 am

In my previous article, I expressed the view that modern environmentalism resembles a pantheistic religion in that it contains a…

21st century snake oil

15 June 2023 4:00 am

Big Pharma may appear to be the zenith of craven greed and duplicity with their billions made off vaccines they…

mRNA vaccines fast-tracked for Australian agriculture

14 June 2023 1:36 pm

After the spectacular failure of mRNA vaccines in human trials, the agricultural industry is pushing ahead with mRNA vaccines for…

The un-United Nations

14 June 2023 6:00 am

The role of the United Nations in the modern world has fallen into disrepute; the recent elevation of Russia as…

Labor’s Voice for bureaucrats

14 June 2023 5:30 am

If the Voice to Parliament is the wondrous advance that the crazy-eyed morality police want us to believe, then why…

To gig or not to gig. Is that the question?

14 June 2023 5:00 am

If you’ve ever been to a pub gig, you’ll have taken part in what the Albanese government wants to (effectively)…

It’s amazing how tolerant home borrowers have become

14 June 2023 4:00 am

It seems like the Aston by-election was not just a disaster for the Liberal Party, losing a once-safe seat from…

Silvio Berlusconi: the man who wanted to make Italy great again

13 June 2023 9:44 am

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has died, aged 86, from complications arising from leukaemia. With him passes also a…

Playing politics with the Governor

13 June 2023 5:00 am

This piece is authored by a guest writer. The beauty of Australia’s Constitutional Monarchy is the absence of politics from…

God did not give us the Church to push political opinion

13 June 2023 4:30 am

I wish I didn’t have to write articles about the Catholic Church. Genuinely, I wish the Catholic Church would act…