Flat White

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

You don’t decide your pronouns – we do

31 December 2022 10:00 am

How often do you get emails from someone who signs off with their pronouns? How often are you confronted in…

The crimes of eco-fascism

31 December 2022 7:00 am

Conservatives never should have surrendered the ground of environmental conservation to the radicalised, collectivised, totalitarian Left. Since becoming custodians of…

No time for panic

31 December 2022 6:00 am

Cristina Talacko is the CEO of Coalition for Conservation, an environmental charity working with centre-right politicians on energy and climate…

Farewell 2022: the year of vindication

31 December 2022 4:00 am

2022 has been a big year for conspiracy theorists – mainly because most of what they said is in the…

Del Noce, modernity, and the death of the Enlightenment

30 December 2022 11:33 am

In Looking back on the Spanish Civil War (1943) George Orwell writes, such is the power of totalitarian thought control…

Happy Energophobia!

30 December 2022 4:00 am

It is the New Year season, so I thought we should celebrate around something that will be common to all…

Batteries not included

29 December 2022 5:11 pm

Renewable energy battery farms threaten to cripple the economy with cyclic costs

Pull it together, Australia!

29 December 2022 10:00 am

Australia is a great nation and a country to be proud of. We have faced challenging times, year after year,…

The slippery slope to socialism

29 December 2022 7:00 am

I have the heater on in mid-summer Australia, so it makes sense that ‘they’ changed ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’…

A ‘borderless world’? Not for carbon!

28 December 2022 11:15 am

The European Union has long been known as a collection of bad ideas. On brand, it has decided to become…

Australia’s democratic backslide

28 December 2022 10:00 am

Democracy is the backbone of the Australian way of life. By global standards, Australia’s electoral and democratic institutions are at…

Bin chickens chow down on cane toads

28 December 2022 6:00 am

Cane toads have long been painted as an existential threat to Queensland’s ecosystem. Since their deliberate introduction in 1935 by…

Australia and a Pacific ‘shape up’ in 2023 

28 December 2022 4:00 am

This year, the Pacific Islands clearly featured much more vividly in Australian politics. Near-state collapse in the Solomon Islands, matched…

What should we go to war over?

27 December 2022 7:00 am

Foreign Minister Penny Wong went to Beijing to meet with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to mark the 50th anniversary…

Did the Victorian elections ignore the Constitution and Human Rights Charter?

27 December 2022 4:00 am

When the Bracks government in Victoria established an Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission in 2006 it bragged that it…

Childish China threatens Taiwan (again)

27 December 2022 2:20 am

China has decided to finish the year by antagonising Taiwan. Reports indicate that 71 planes and 7 military ships were…

A Christmas tree vs. the fringe gender activists

26 December 2022 10:00 am

Authorities in the little town of Dedham Massachusetts went into damage control this week after abandoning the town’s decades-long tradition of displaying…

My Christmas wish

25 December 2022 8:00 am

To my fellow Australians… During this Christmas festival may you be enveloped with the love of family and friends. May…

Post-Covid and extremely merry

25 December 2022 6:00 am

Is it just me or is everyone getting pretty merry about the festive season this year? First, we had the…

Marxism is ‘so’ 2022

25 December 2022 4:00 am

‘Religion is the opium of the people,’ is the famous Karl Marx put-down, which he wrote in 1843 and which…

No Christmas card from the Liberal leader

25 December 2022 3:00 am

It seems I have upset Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. The Liberal Party leader wrote a scathing letter, published in The…

An Australian Christmas

24 December 2022 2:30 pm

When I was small, Christmas meant visiting my nan in St Ives. Her house existed in a state of chaos,…

Letter to the Editor: Peter Dutton

24 December 2022 12:41 pm

Leader of the Liberal Party Peter Dutton issues a response to an earlier article by author James Macpherson. Got something…

‘Away with the Manger’: Christmas hijacked by politics

24 December 2022 10:00 am

Away with the manger; no wisemen from afar; the little Lord Jesus; replaced by Indigenous art!

Religion as a political football

24 December 2022 7:00 am

It’s no secret that many on the progressive Left despise Judeo-Christian faiths and their legacy on Western Civilisation. Their pro-Islam…