Flat White

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

Dan Andrews is a [censored]

31 May 2023 3:00 am

Long before the former Woke gods in Twitter management were pushed off their pedestals by Elon Musk, the general public…

I agree with Ray Dalio

30 May 2023 3:53 pm

Hedge fund billionaire, philanthropist, and virtual mentor to millions Ray Dalio thinks the world is going to end, and I’m…

Bowen Basin geological dramas

30 May 2023 5:30 am

Part 2 of the Bowen Basin Stories… Who says ‘geology is boring’? It is a story of floods and droughts,…

Leave sport alone!

30 May 2023 5:00 am

Remember when we used to watch our favourite teams play because we loved the game? It was a great way…

The #Truth really is out there … ask your Year 8 teacher

30 May 2023 4:00 am

We can all relax now. Channel Ten News ‘exclusively revealed’ this past week that soon every high school in Australia…

Goodbye to WA’s worst ever Premier, Mark McGowan

29 May 2023 4:20 pm

Western Australia’s Labor Premier Mark McGowan has resigned after over six years and two months in the job. He said…

Misgendering is the new blasphemy

29 May 2023 12:03 pm

Events in the UK, where a Christian teacher has been sacked for misgendering a female student who now identifies as…

Renewables and rare earths: the virtuous ravishing of South Africa

29 May 2023 10:00 am

South Africa Beats Climate Goal as Blackouts Slash Emissions. It’s one of those headlines you read and assume the Babylon…

Who do you think you are?

29 May 2023 6:00 am

The popular and long-running BBC/SBS program Who do you think you are? reaches back into written histories, stored documents, and family…

Alan Jones: Morrison’s comments on the Voice

29 May 2023 5:00 am

Since he was beaten in the Federal election last year, Scott Morrison has been much maligned. In only his third…

Improve your writing to save our culture

29 May 2023 4:30 am

A major theme of George Orwell’s 1984 is that the deterioration of language, or rendering words meaningless, makes people unable to think…

Cancelling our crucible day

29 May 2023 4:00 am

Just one day is all most people want. One day to celebrate Australia. One day to say, as Nino Culotta…

US Marshals rescue 225 children from trafficking

28 May 2023 5:45 pm

Child trafficking is a scourge most consign to the third world, but it has become a serious issue for the…

The politician and the gulag

28 May 2023 1:12 pm

Lions International is an umbrella group for thousands of local Lions Clubs – of which I have recently become a…

It’s time the ABC was privatised

28 May 2023 5:00 am

In my view, the ABC no longer provides news and current affairs content that is relevant to mainstream Australians. This…

The diminishing bank of mum and dad

28 May 2023 4:00 am

Like many parents in the 80s and 90s, I had a T-Shirt that read: ‘I’M YOUR DAD, NOT YOUR ATM!’…

Double Shot Ep3: is the WHO framework sexualising the world’s children?

28 May 2023 1:14 am

Special guest One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts delves into the disturbing World Health Organisation framework that wants sex education and…

The silencing and vilification of women and girls

27 May 2023 5:48 pm

The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem has issued a statement voicing concerns about the silencing…

Dear Elon, please don’t destroy the world

27 May 2023 4:22 pm

The US Food and Drug Administration has granted Elon Musk’s company Neuralink approval to begin human trials on brain chips. Twitter…

Arsonists and central bankers

27 May 2023 6:00 am

Inflation attracts metaphors. Especially popular is inflation as a genie, with attendant bottle in which it is either securely contained,…

Hydrogen in the mix

27 May 2023 5:00 am

Whenever the word ‘hydrogen’ surfaces in discussions about a future energy mix, my climate-sceptic Australian friends clam up. Though a…

Divide and conquer: the Voice has a hidden agenda

27 May 2023 4:00 am

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, with the support all the state and territory premiers, has officially backed the ‘First Nations…

The Sydney inferno

26 May 2023 12:34 pm

It was happenstance that I found myself walking up from Broadway yesterday afternoon. As I came to the crest of…

Alan Jones: should there be a tax on exported raw materials?

26 May 2023 5:30 am

I have warned, endlessly, about the consequences of the utterly mistaken energy policy being pursued by the Albanese government, articulated…

Coal: the missing link

26 May 2023 5:00 am

Coal will be indispensable for electricity generation in Australia for the foreseeable future. Of its competitors; natural gas is much…