Flat White

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

Australia cancels Jerusalem, ignores CCP South Pacific expansionism

23 October 2022 7:00 am

Australian Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, has cancelled a Morrison government initiative recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The Labor frontbencher announced the decision in…

Time and tithes of the Voice

23 October 2022 5:00 am

These things are always about money. How much will you pay to apologise for the colour of your skin?

BOM-shell

22 October 2022 2:37 pm

Not content with changing historical data to protect the image of Climate Change (sorry ‘homogenising weather data and closing stations…

The rings have lost their power

22 October 2022 12:43 pm

Amazon Prime’s Rings of Power sinks into the pit of Woke oblivion

Floods and droughts are nothing new

22 October 2022 12:09 pm

There is nothing unusual about floods, fires, droughts, homelessness, and hunger – they have always been part of the human…

NDIS: improvements that make things worse

22 October 2022 6:00 am

Sometimes, when English is insufficient to describe a particular situation, we have to turn elsewhere. German has a terrifying phrase ‘verschlimmbesserung’ or…

Mount Warning banned! Which park will be next?

22 October 2022 4:00 am

NSW Liberals betray Australians over National Park lock-out based on race. We are looking at widespread racial discrimination enforced by the state government

Rob Roos and Rowan Dean on the abuse of rights

21 October 2022 1:22 pm

The admission Dutch conservative member of the European Parliament, Rob Roos, dragged out of Pfizer representative Janine Small has thrown…

Australia’s dumbed-down schools are going nowhere

21 October 2022 10:00 am

Over the last month, there have been yet another two initiatives designed, supposedly, to improve the performance of Australian schools,…

Dirty dependency: superannuation and ESG

21 October 2022 8:00 am

There is nothing green about the big end of town pursuing ESGs instead of energy solutions

Sportspeople should know their limitations

21 October 2022 6:00 am

Clint Eastwood, in the character of Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callaghan, delivered what may well be one of the most underrated…

Trans rights or dangerous ‘agency capture’?

21 October 2022 4:00 am

In a startling development this week, Paul Barry suggested that the ABC should review its relationship with the AIDS Council…

Thorpe: Boyfriend – bad. Rabble-rousing – okay!

20 October 2022 4:43 pm

Today, diminutive Greens leader Adam Bandt finally acted against firebrand Victorian senator, Lidia Thorpe. Bandt punted Thorpe from the Senate…

Reflections on the revolution in Britain

20 October 2022 1:23 pm

Like periscoped sheep, the palace hordes startled back and forth, lunging the gates, devices bobbing – flopping above the fray…

Was it worth it?

20 October 2022 10:00 am

For the last two and a half years, we have been subjected to some of the worst perversions of human…

Has Labor invited terrorism?

20 October 2022 8:00 am

The threat of terrorism is returning to Australia. The impending release of convicted terrorists at the end of their sentences,…

Dam or be damned!

20 October 2022 4:00 am

Australia: the land of droughts and flooding rains. Dorothea Mackellar was clearly not just a poet – but a handy…

Stop fooling around with Covid

19 October 2022 2:24 pm

Covid has been described as the ‘least deadly pandemic in history’ because its fatality rate among young, healthy people is…

Stop infantilising victims

19 October 2022 11:00 am

Everything in this current era appears to be about feelings. There is feelings-based feminism and feelings-based hashtags. If the fembots…

‘Woke’ poisons everything

19 October 2022 10:00 am

If the intention of Woke acolytes is to make everything a lot worse, they should be given a gold star…

Old habits die hard

19 October 2022 8:00 am

Labor’s uncosted infrastructure

Faith? Tolerance? Diversity?

19 October 2022 4:00 am

Did Dan Andrews violate the Victorian Religious Tolerance Law?

Church and State

18 October 2022 12:00 pm

Something I decided to help solve after the failures of the 2016 federal election is the level of misinformation that…

Frogself

18 October 2022 11:00 am

A Hobart mayoral candidate has been accused of mocking transgendered people because she signed off an email by identifying as…

The nanny state

18 October 2022 10:00 am

Contrary to the opinion expressed by Matthew Parris, the nanny state did not initiate the changes that he so rightly…