Flat White

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

Giving six-figures to racism

13 March 2023 4:30 am

The New Zealand Human Rights Commission recently spent $1.3 million on Voices of Racism, the second wave of the 2017…

Rowan Dean: We don’t need a Voice because we already have one

13 March 2023 4:00 am

As readers know, I occasionally like to be the bearer of good news and today I am delighted to tell…

Post-referendum blues

12 March 2023 6:00 am

Come the referendum and the Voice will be dead or alive. But the shouting will continue. Post-referendum Australia will have…

Rules-Nazis

12 March 2023 4:00 am

I went for a surf this morning, vaguely aware of a notion that fibreglass boards shouldn’t be used at the…

Alan Jones: the inescapable truth of the energy crisis

11 March 2023 7:00 am

If politicians cared to move into the real world and listened, rather than lectured, they would understand the inescapable truth…

Woke rail networks want to save the planet, but they can’t look after their stations

11 March 2023 6:00 am

I was born in Wahroonga. Attended school there. In the decades since, I have lived in and around the little…

Should white people atone for colonial sin?

11 March 2023 5:00 am

It has recently been reported in the ABC that Nathan Maynard, a Tasmanian Aboriginal artist, is seeking the body of…

Victimhood: the inversion of evolution by social stealth

11 March 2023 4:00 am

There’s an old saying: It’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s what you do about what happens that matters.…

The yin and yang of clean energy

10 March 2023 6:00 am

After embarking on a clean energy tour to the US and Canada, I came back convinced that nuclear and renewables…

What’s in a name?

10 March 2023 5:30 am

Indigenous disadvantage resides not in the affluent city of Mitcham, South Australia, but in the usually out-of-sight remote communities which…

Divine pronouns? Let God decide

10 March 2023 5:00 am

The Church of England has been asked to respond to requests from clergy to use gender-neutral pronouns for God. The…

Digital dystopia

10 March 2023 4:00 am

Imagine a world where no part of your life is private. Everything you have – bank accounts, purchases, your medical…

Defining tyranny: will the Voice end democracy?

9 March 2023 5:03 pm

What is a tyranny? You probably know that China is a tyranny, even if the experts prefer the term totalitarian. Social…

The ABCs of Covid

9 March 2023 6:00 am

A is for Abundance (i.e to exercise a caution of): the only justification required for our leaders to breach our…

The Federation Cross

9 March 2023 5:00 am

Away back in the good old days when men could find a job; When money was as good as gold…

3,000 days of Dan

9 March 2023 4:30 am

The Victorian Premier’s milestone is not a cause for celebration

How the Libs should defund the ABC

9 March 2023 4:00 am

Canada’s conservatives are on the right track

Changing climate change: debunking the global colossus

8 March 2023 6:00 am

In a previous article, I discussed how climate science has grown from an obscure theory in the late 80s to…

Biden’s hiring criteria: Woke before worker?!

8 March 2023 5:00 am

Americans have until April 3 to challenge proposed subjective ‘suitability and fitness’ criteria for selecting Federal employees. Released February 14,…

Australia: suffocated by regulation and raided by greedy politicians

8 March 2023 4:30 am

Gary Banks in The Australian notes how government regulatory measures are destroying our vital comparative advantage in energy supply and promoting inefficient labour…

Sensitivity readers: no better than Medieval statue butchers

7 March 2023 6:30 am

‘Yeah, the good news is that this is a right-wing source that is probably blowing it out of proportion. But…

What is yours, is theirs

7 March 2023 6:00 am

How dare you work hard, often across multiple jobs!!! You studied, innovated, invested, risked time and money, saved (rather than…

Rev. Calvin Robinson: a crisis of faith for the Anglican Church?

7 March 2023 5:30 am

What follows is one of the most articulate and powerful speeches you are likely to view this year. It is…

Sea level rises?

7 March 2023 5:00 am

Who would believe that the whole world has just woken up to the fact that climate changes? It changes constantly…

Alan Jones: Rio Tinto and Taiwan, or is that ‘Greater China’?

7 March 2023 4:30 am

I have long wondered whether Australia’s corporate world places its interests above all others, including the poor coot in Struggle…