Flat White

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

Black market vaping targets Australian children

31 January 2023 5:30 am

The past week has seen some discussion – finally – of practical, workable solutions to controlling the black market in…

The Greens: reaping the electoral dividends of indoctrination

31 January 2023 5:00 am

Lowering the voting age to 16 looks like a great idea, but only to the Greens. The party proposed the idea last…

Gender dysphoria and aggression for dinner

31 January 2023 4:00 am

Most will have heard of ‘Performance Enhancing Drugs’ and how any trace of such found in an athlete will cause…

Novak’s Churchill-esque victory speech

30 January 2023 12:56 pm

Novak Djokovic has returned as the world’s number one tennis player. He was crowned King at Melbourne Park following his…

Schwab’s last stand

30 January 2023 7:00 am

Klaus Schwab, founder and head of the World Economic Forum (who many joke resembles a villain from Hollywood central casting),…

The Australian socialist experiment: capturing capitalism

30 January 2023 5:00 am

A sweeping new Australian socialist experiment is well underway. The signs are everywhere. But it’s unique… This is socialism with…

Saving medicine from the health bureaucracy

30 January 2023 4:00 am

We genuinely urge doctors involved with medical regulation not to go down with the sinking ship of authoritarian censorship and…

Novak Djokovic: this trophy is yours, as much as it is mine

30 January 2023 1:48 am

I am normally patriotic about sport, but when Novak Djokovic handed Australian Alex de Minaur his arse in the fourth…

The Menu: delicious satire on the emptiness of consumerism

29 January 2023 6:00 am

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilisation.’ For…

‘Chalming’ no one: Labor romances communism

29 January 2023 5:00 am

Jim Chalmers is proving to be the most iconoclastic Treasurer since the Whitlam government’s Jim Cairns, a man who only…

What (conservative) women want

29 January 2023 4:30 am

Something strange has been happening in conservative politics. The Liberal Party is being told that the only way it can…

New Zealand mourns the ‘loss’ of its kind princess

29 January 2023 4:00 am

Whether you admire or loathe Jacinda Ardern as the Prime Minister of New Zealand, you have to admit, she was…

Left to rot: why hasn’t the Cerberus been recovered and displayed?

28 January 2023 6:00 am

It seems very strange that in Australia we have – neglected, forlorn, and abandoned – one of the foremost examples…

Jacinda Ardern: New Zealand’s failed feminist icon

28 January 2023 5:00 am

Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as Prime Minister has seen commentary varying from hagiographic flim-flam to an accurate accounting of what was promised,…

The truth about Australia’s education system: bullying, indoctrination, and intimidation

28 January 2023 4:00 am

95 per cent of the next generation will be far-left Marxists. Where does that leave Australia?

Eventbrite cancels Dr Peter McCullough: ‘dangerous speech’ or the rise of truth?

27 January 2023 8:39 am

This morning, ticket platform Eventbrite sent out an email informing its customers that the hotly anticipated event, Dr Peter McCullough Covid-19…

Who would vote ‘yes’ to racism?

27 January 2023 7:00 am

How I would love to live in an Australia that advances fairly… Imagine the progress for common good to be…

The dodgy tradies of Davos 

27 January 2023 6:00 am

It’s a scene familiar to every Australian who’s ever turned on their TV between the hours of 5-7pm – the…

When search engines speak ill of the dead

27 January 2023 5:00 am

News media prides itself on being even-handed when reporting on serious issues and crimes. Of course, it doesn’t always do…

Court win for Christian foster care applicants is a victory for common sense and a fair go

27 January 2023 4:00 am

In 2017, West Australian couple Byron and Keira Hordyk were rejected as ‘unsafe’ by fostering agency, Wanslea Family Services, to…

Deadly Western trends

26 January 2023 12:00 pm

Australia is about as far away from the war on Ukraine as one can get, but this week it showed…

Former Liberal MP John Hyde awarded OAM

26 January 2023 9:00 am

The Mannkal Economic Education Foundation has released a statement congratulating former Western Australian Liberal MP, John Hyde, for his wonderful…

The Australia Day debate: an exercise in puritanical Gnosticism

26 January 2023 7:00 am

Michael Mansell, an Aboriginal Elder from the Aboriginal Land council Tasmania and secretary of the independence movement The Aboriginal Provisional…

Immigration to integration: a personal account

26 January 2023 6:00 am

Effective integration is not easy for a migrant. When I entered Australia about twenty-five years ago, I felt like a…

A wabi-sabi nation

26 January 2023 1:00 am

Australia is a wabi-sabi nation: perfect in all its imperfections