Flat White

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

Climate policy: driving us in the wrong direction

7 November 2022 8:00 am

In the not-too-distant future, the climate policies of the Albanese government will become untenable. Why? Because these policies are based…

Renewables-only is naked ideology

7 November 2022 6:00 am

Daniel Andrews has ripped away renewable energy’s cloak of economic and engineering respectability. Unveiling his new energy policy for Victoria…

How I kept my inner rage against our Dear Leader

7 November 2022 4:00 am

What I learned during 200+ days of Victoria’s Covid lockdown

Musk reveals free speech owned by advertising giants

6 November 2022 1:28 pm

The Twitter elite, who spend most of their time preaching about socialism and ‘equality’, have debased themselves to the level…

On the (dystopian) beach

6 November 2022 7:00 am

Nevil Shute’s classic apocalyptic 1957 novel about the end of the world, On the Beach, was set, as such horror…

Covid blurred the separation of Church and State

6 November 2022 4:00 am

Churches allowed fear of the omnipotent God to be replaced with the fear of a fragile virus, making saviours out of health officials

No amnesty for pandemic fanaticism

5 November 2022 2:30 pm

A more honest headline for The Atlantic’s recent demand for amnesty over the pandemic response would have been: ‘Sorry, not Sorry.’ The sarcasm best…

The Right will slay this Woke dystopia

5 November 2022 12:53 pm

Conservatives the world over are taking back power and restoring sanity, but where is Peter Dutton?

Leftugees: Democrats escape blue states

5 November 2022 11:04 am

Remember the chorus of Hollywood bien-pensants who publicly avowed that they would leave the country if Trump won the election in 2016? To…

The more things change...

5 November 2022 7:00 am

In Moscow 1992, according to former ABC journalist in Soviet Russia Monica Attard, ‘the cost of everything – a loaf…

The Midterms: America faces its Litmus Election

5 November 2022 6:00 am

In the 14th Century, Spanish chemist Arnaldus de Villa Nova discovered that litmus, a compound derived from natural bacteria, would…

Fiona Patten ditches safety for sex workers

4 November 2022 2:11 pm

‘It’s really opened a lot of doors, that could lead somewhere else.’ Jay said, unyielding. We stood at the entrance…

Living in the Latter Days

4 November 2022 11:00 am

Australians are living in the latter days of the Anglo/American Empire. For centuries, world power centres have been moving west…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs Elon Musk

4 November 2022 10:08 am

Elon Musk has worn the crown for less than a week and Twitter is already more fun. By ‘more fun’…

A lesson for Lismore

4 November 2022 10:00 am

The Green anti-dredging cult has destroyed Australia’s ports and endangered riverside towns

Elon Musk giveth, and Elon Musk taketh away

4 November 2022 6:00 am

Back in the lockdown days, around the time I started fiddling around with cryptocurrency, Elon Musk was hailed as a…

Climate vandals mimic ISIS in their war against art

4 November 2022 4:00 am

One could be forgiven for thinking that climate groups had been masterfully infiltrated by swathes of fossil fuel merchants. How…

IR madness: Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill

3 November 2022 2:00 pm

Industrial relations lawyers in Australia each need to immediately buy themselves a new Porsche. Labor’s new Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill is…

$15 million: the debt-trap of empty virtue signalling

3 November 2022 11:20 am

Many Victorians are incensed by the news that Daniel Andrews has decided to spend Victorian taxpayer money to fill the $15…

Repatriation...?

3 November 2022 10:35 am

As Mr Albanese cleared the way to repatriate jihadi brides, National Archives opened access to my mum’s naturalisation records. In…

Infectious diseases remain a threat

3 November 2022 10:00 am

Have we learnt anything from our past experience of infectious disease? For well over a century, pandemics and epidemics produced…

Spitting out the truth

3 November 2022 8:00 am

The problems on Darwin’s buses are not new and the Transport Workers Union has long campaigned for better protection for…

Climate injustice: a personal account from a Kiwi farmer

3 November 2022 4:00 am

New Zealand sheep farmers have been singled out to bear the brunt of our country’s efforts to stop the planet…

Jacinda: just go!

2 November 2022 4:02 pm

The Ardern regime in New Zealand has been an embarrassment to the West. During her short tenure as Prime Minister,…

A tertiary tragedy

2 November 2022 12:00 pm

Australia’s higher-education sector is a farce: a quasi-commercial entity, run for the benefit of select interests, and failing in its social responsibility