Flat White

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

An open letter to Australian leadership

23 January 2026 1:42 am

On the nature of radical evil and the duties of power

Why Australia’s News Bargaining Incentive isn’t about news or bargaining

23 January 2026 1:33 am

Through the proposed News Bargaining Incentive, Australia is considering how to force global digital platforms like Meta and Google to…

The silence of the lambs

23 January 2026 12:39 am

How Australia is quietly training itself to obey

Australia is failing the test of history

22 January 2026 9:31 pm

Albanese did not lack information. He lacked resolve...

History never repeats?

22 January 2026 2:59 pm

History never repeats – that was a song by Split Enz back in 1981. The title is the opening line, with…

Prediction markets are not gambling

22 January 2026 2:24 pm

They are ‘open loops’ that produce actionable intelligence

Government to ban all sharks from having teeth

22 January 2026 10:45 am

After three shark attacks in less than 24 hours, the government called an emergency session of Parliament and has now…

Brave Nationals defied Shadow Cabinet solidarity

21 January 2026 7:05 pm

Nationals Bridget McKenzie, Ross Cadell, and Susan McDonald quit Shadow Cabinet

Are the ‘hate group’ laws all about control?

21 January 2026 2:32 pm

Never let a good crisis go to waste. Anthony Albanese must have been pondering these sage words as he presided…

Orange is the new blue

21 January 2026 1:28 pm

I am no longer a card-carrying Liberal. I’ve quit...

More shark attacks are inevitable

21 January 2026 9:00 am

I wrote a piece for the Spectator last September in the wake of the fatal shark attack on Sydney Northern…

One Nation on the rise driven by the Opposition’s incompetence

20 January 2026 10:23 pm

Any poll taken in the next few weeks will show an even sharper increase in the vote for One Nation.…

Albo delivers ‘dog’s breakfast’, claims antisemitism wasn’t Labor’s fault

20 January 2026 9:05 pm

From the Parliamentary Press Gallery: Following yesterday’s shemozzle, and after a good night’s sleep, I rode my new scrambler into…

The inversion of evil

20 January 2026 1:43 pm

When everything is fascism, nothing is

The test Australia is failing

20 January 2026 12:03 pm

A ritual of solidarity – and an indictment

US Supreme Court wades into the transgender issue

20 January 2026 9:34 am

The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) very recently heard arguments in two Constitutional cases involving the right of transgender women athletes…

Condolences today, (in)action tomorrow

19 January 2026 9:11 pm

Bridget McKenzie says PM failed to rise to the test of leadership

When fake news is too good to be true

19 January 2026 10:46 am

The most entertaining fake news I’ve ever seen did the rounds last week, claiming – rather boldly – that King…

Labor’s Islamic terrorism deflection is desperate

19 January 2026 8:13 am

Parliament returns today for a rare special sitting recalled early by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Labor’s original intention was to…

Free speech, faith, and the danger of legislating virtue

19 January 2026 12:48 am

Christianity’s forgotten role in free speech

Mapping today’s post-Cold War geoeconomic order

19 January 2026 12:20 am

Today’s geopolitical world is more like the turbulent and bloody 19th to mid-20th centuries than the Cold War long period…

Bushfires in context

18 January 2026 5:58 pm

The same thing has been happening for hundreds of years

Liberals defy the odds with the right decision

18 January 2026 1:25 pm

We may not be a party to the closed-door ideological struggles of the Liberal Party, but we do know they…

You cannot fix education without first fixing the culture

18 January 2026 1:00 am

Australia has allowed ideology to shape curriculum content

Labor shelves its Stalinist nightmare (for now)

17 January 2026 10:18 pm

Labor’s outrageous omnibus bill, Combatting Antisemitism, Hate, and Extremism Bill 2026, casually known as the WTF is this Stalinist Nightmare (2026), has…