Flat White

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

Should Albanese rescue the nickel industry?

24 February 2024 12:57 am

In 2020, Elon Musk issued a plea, ‘Please mine more nickel. Tesla will give you a giant contract for a…

To fix healthcare, doctors need to take a really good look in the mirror

23 February 2024 4:36 pm

Two weeks ago, the BMJ published research that reinforced the overwhelming evidence that the United Kingdom’s National Health Service should continue to…

Julian Assange’s predicament: protecting freedom of the press

23 February 2024 2:46 pm

The High Court of England is presently considering whether Julian Assange can be granted leave to appeal against an extradition…

Double Shot S2E4: Covid freedom fighters deserve the Nobel Prize! Ramesh Thakur, Hava Mendelle, and Saxon Davidson

23 February 2024 12:15 am

We often talk about who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize… It’s history has been one of both extraordinary individuals and…

The urgent call for an equitable transition: a cry for help from the Kiewa Valley

22 February 2024 3:30 am

In the serene landscapes of rural Victoria, where the Kiewa Valley’s rolling hills and verdant meadows paint a picture of…

The Carlson critique

22 February 2024 3:00 am

Volodymyr Zelensky – the front-line president (Wilkinson Publishing) Andrew L. Urban & Chris McLeod Our new book (the 2nd on…

Swift justice for the political class

22 February 2024 2:00 am

The question I asked after reading a report about Taylor Swift’s biggest-ever concert in Melbourne, which reportedly had over 90,000…

Switching on reality

22 February 2024 2:00 am

When the lights went out last week for 500,000 Victorians, it wasn’t all bad. Most still had natural gas to…

Foreign policy fibs and half-truths

21 February 2024 11:00 am

Despite frequent promises that they would be the most transparent and open government ever, the Albanese government has gone out…

Cockroaches in the halls of power, crickets in the press

21 February 2024 3:00 am

Eating insects is not only an act of global salvation – following the advice of the United Nation’s advice on…

Pass the Wodehouse, Jeeves

21 February 2024 2:30 am

‘I don’t know if you know that sort of feeling you get on these days around the end of April…

The war of words

21 February 2024 1:30 am

I am very privileged to have been friends with Peter Drucker and Alvin Toffler. This morning I imagined sitting in…

Never Again is now

21 February 2024 1:00 am

A rally against anti-semitism was hosted at the Domain in Sydney’s CBD on February 18. It featured a prominent and…

Week in 60 Minutes S2E4: To climb, or not to climb? Michael de Percy, Alan Moran, John Ruddick

21 February 2024 12:45 am

NSW MLC John Ruddick fights against national park lockouts based on race and gender. Why is our government allowed to…

The four seeds of our problem

20 February 2024 3:30 am

Postmodern Woke philosophy does not advocate a substitute morality that one might have the option to endorse or reject; indeed,…

Anthony Albanese, cosplayer

20 February 2024 3:00 am

Imagine my delight, in opening up a recent Catholic Weekly, only to find TIA (The Inevitable Albo) on the front page.…

Loopy Labor’s disconnect from reality

20 February 2024 2:30 am

The Labor government’s Closing Loopholes Bill is the latest blow to reality and the business economy, but its ‘Right to…

The Covid resistance deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

20 February 2024 2:00 am

Alfred Nobel’s will (excerpt) (Paris, 27 November 1895) stipulates that the Peace Prize is to be awarded: …to the person who…

All my biases are conscious ones

19 February 2024 4:00 am

These people are the lovechildren of Whigs and Leninists

Take the lollies away: defund UNRWA

19 February 2024 3:00 am

A few weeks back, I observed a pretty sad scene down at the local shops. A mother was holding out…

Living in hope for peace

19 February 2024 2:30 am

Why is there no peace in the Middle East? Why is there no progress towards the two-state solution, the ‘obvious’…

The solution to our government-induced malaise

19 February 2024 2:00 am

Studying last month’s Davos meeting of the world’s (largely self-appointed) elites, Walter Russell Mead sees an inflection point. He says that when…

Alexandra Marshall Live S2E3: John Roskam on the Magna Carta, a tax revolt that gave us liberty!

19 February 2024 12:45 am

Can tax reform set us free? Former Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs and now Senior Fellow, John…

Solar ain’t gonna save us

18 February 2024 7:13 pm

Regardless of what I want, my phone keeps an eye out for trending stories in the world of Renewable energy.…

Soulless medicine

18 February 2024 1:00 am

A doctor wary of coming face-to-face with a patient is a real worry