Flat White

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

Islamic Republic of Iran and Hamas

7 November 2023 4:30 am

As the Islamic Republic of Iran and its terror networks cause death and destruction in Israel and Gaza and threaten…

The Paris crowd

7 November 2023 4:15 am

Last month, the Paris-based OECD published its latest assessment of the Australian economy. Nobody read it other than those people paid to…

Aren’t you fed up with the ABC?

7 November 2023 4:00 am

I don’t know whether you can still get liquorice allsorts, but they used to be popular with children, if not…

Just Stop Oil: the locusts of politics

7 November 2023 2:25 am

Swarms of attention-seeking activists with nothing to contribute to the world except grandstanding, vandalism, and inconvenience are back to their…

Only conservative values can save us

6 November 2023 5:00 am

In the endless cycle of the Social Media doom scroll, I came across a meme not too long ago that…

Victorian Parliament at its worst

6 November 2023 4:00 am

Since the recent Referendum, many commentators have referred to the state of play in the Victorian negotiations between the state…

Gentle parents, ruthless children

6 November 2023 2:33 am

As someone perpetually infuriated by the general public, I’m not quite sure why I enjoy train travel so much. Taking…

Western decline is not inevitable: ARC tells a ‘better story’

6 November 2023 1:38 am

The inaugural Alliance for Responsible Citizenship forum held in London this week repudiated the direction our politicians are leading us.…

Victoria’s bonkers 30cm grass height rule to be ‘revised’

5 November 2023 3:43 pm

You can always count on the former Republic of Danistan to come up with a deranged idea. Last week, they…

Killing koalas to save wind farms?

4 November 2023 9:38 pm

‘Protecting koalas’ has been the favourite mantra invoked by Green groups and local councils to prevent basic services being built.…

ARC: to boldly say what the elites dare not

4 November 2023 5:07 pm

An audience of movers and shakers from around the world roared with laughter in London this week during a talk…

Catch 22 powers on

4 November 2023 2:23 pm

Recently I wrote an article titled Hello Darkness My Old Friend, which started out describing a romantic candle-lit dinner with…

The high cost of shoehorning Biden into the Presidency

4 November 2023 10:09 am

Shoehorning? I’m sure you know what I mean. It is this: I do not believe that Biden’s basement-delivered campaign in…

Israel, censorship, and the ten percent

4 November 2023 4:00 am

One of the side effects of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in various Western countries, including Australia, has been…

Sub-optimal desalination for sub-tropical Queensland?

3 November 2023 1:39 am

The present Queensland government’s Water Security Plan includes doubling the present capacity of the existing desalination plant at Tugun, and…

Superiority complex at the heart of elite activism

3 November 2023 12:59 am

The defeat of the Voice Referendum is no reason to rejoice, but rather a time for reflection. Indigenous communities need…

Spectacularly wrong on foreign policy

3 November 2023 12:51 am

It isn’t uncommon for foreign policy prognosticators to get things spectacularly wrong. What sets Jake Sullivan apart, in my opinion,…

Konstantin Kisin, ‘We are in the fight of our lives’

2 November 2023 3:25 pm

Stop whatever you’re doing and watch this speech by Konstantin Kisin at the inaugural ARC (The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship)…

Wikipedia at war

2 November 2023 3:51 am

Twenty years ago when I attended university, I was told by lecturers in no uncertain terms that Wikipedia should not…

The problem with green energy is … basic physics

2 November 2023 3:12 am

All green energy generation schemes are dishonest schemes, for various reasons. They all need enormous tax-payer funding to make them…

Centralisation, the Voice, and why the National Curriculum should be abandoned

1 November 2023 5:30 am

Centralised control results in a hierarchy of out-of-touch elites, neglects local agency, and creates unnecessary layers of red tape and…

Green, powerless, and defenceless

1 November 2023 5:00 am

As Net Zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless, and defenceless. History holds lessons that we ignore at…

Sick of Marvel? Watch these instead

1 November 2023 4:30 am

I think it’s safe to say that I’m getting sick of the same old superhero movies. The chances of me…

Toward a new totalitarianism

1 November 2023 4:00 am

There’s no doubt cultural-Marxist-inspired Woke ideology is destroying the best parts of Western Civilisation. Rationality, truth, and a spiritual or…

Airbus Albo has forgotten Alice Springs

31 October 2023 6:10 pm

It is unlikely Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will return to Alice Springs now the referendum is finished and there is…