Flat White

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

The psychology of moral evasion

27 March 2023 7:00 am

I heard the term ‘severe climate anxiety’ again today. It was reportedly used as a defence to help someone achieve…

Annihilated

27 March 2023 6:00 am

Since about 2016, the Liberal Party has decided to abandon its statement of principles, ‘We Believe’, which espouses ideals such…

Victoria needs Voltaire

27 March 2023 4:30 am

So modern and fabulous we think we are… But it was the French philosopher of the Enlightenment period, Voltaire, who…

New Zealand shows us how the Voice will work

27 March 2023 4:00 am

There were two important announcements on Thursday March 16, concerning the question that will be asked at the Voice to…

Conservative Australians should be very angry

27 March 2023 3:30 am

John Howard was a conservative. He won, again and again and again. Tony Abbott was a conservative. He won a…

Let the new feminism speak

26 March 2023 6:00 am

Let Women Speak is just what it sounds like, an event aimed at giving women a platform. Anyone who shows…

Theologian Thunberg and the pseudo-religion

26 March 2023 4:00 am

Imagine that: it seems that Greta Thunberg is now a top theologian…? Yes, I realise that honorary degrees are usually…

The trans counter-counter protest

25 March 2023 5:00 am

On Saturday morning last week, the Save Our Children (SOC) coalition, which included Christian Lives Matter (CLM) supporters, gathered at…

Love diversity, equity, and inclusion – or else

25 March 2023 4:00 am

A decade ago, when I returned to University in my home state of Queensland to train as a teacher, a…

Social media: radicalising the West into the climate cult?

24 March 2023 7:00 am

Facebook users are aware of the suffocating control the platform exerted over the Covid narrative. The Silicon Valley giant became…

Trust is a big fat nothing burger

24 March 2023 6:00 am

I was back at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the opener of the 2023 AFL Season. This time last year,…

The powerful politics of Covid vaccines

24 March 2023 5:00 am

When did Pfizer accumulate the 94 cases which would have qualified for the primary endpoint (the evaluable efficacy population) for…

The activism industry

24 March 2023 4:00 am

The activist professional caravan has moved on. Hitting the social media headlines in 2017, the #MeToo movement disrupted the community…

The most disliked Hollywood film trailer in history?

23 March 2023 6:00 am

Well, that didn’t last long. It seems my faith in Hollywood to tell a decent story bereft of identity politics…

BoM(bed) again!

23 March 2023 5:00 am

The mainstream legacy media have done it again. As a collective, they have demonstrated how utterly untrustworthy they are as…

Big Tech only wants to hear one ‘Voice’

23 March 2023 5:00 am

In the push to enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in Australia’s Constitution, censorship is the greatest weapon – and…

Slow rolling crisis or banking wildfire?

23 March 2023 4:00 am

The world’s leading funds manager, BlackRock, has argued the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) may start a ‘slow…

Were vaccines a political treatment for public fear?

22 March 2023 4:37 pm

‘All of the public health response [around Covid] appeared to be focused on ‘well’ people, and none of it was…

Labor’s Net Zero dream left in the car park

22 March 2023 7:30 am

Nothing describes Net Zero better than Labor’s campaign ‘e-bus’ sitting dead on arrival in front of reporters after suffering a…

Where is the Royal Commission into Covid?!

22 March 2023 7:00 am

Australians were shocked when the news of the potential enormity of the coronavirus pandemic struck in early 2020. Many were…

Guilt by association

22 March 2023 6:00 am

There are two issues at stake in the transwars that are again finding their way to our shores with ‘Posie…

Alan Jones: Ukraine, China, Russia, and the crisis in Western leadership

22 March 2023 5:00 am

All the talk is about submarines and Aukus, but the very big geopolitical issue is the war in Ukraine. Elements…

Balls: women don’t have them, and neither does Pesutto

22 March 2023 4:00 am

I was so close to writing a good news story about cancel culture. There have been many examples of bravery…

Pesutto has doomed the Victorian Liberal Party

21 March 2023 10:56 am

The Liberal Party is doomed. It doesn’t exist anymore. That’s the only way to understand the decision by John Pesutto,…

What’s left of our cultural inheritance?

21 March 2023 6:00 am

Though it may come as a surprise to a postmodernist, 3,000 years of Western history offers some viable solutions to…