Flat White

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

Desperate Dan tries ‘bread and a $15m circus’

2 November 2022 11:24 am

If Netball Australia had any decency, they would reject Dan Andrews $15 million sponsorship offer. The Victoria Premier promised to…

Let’s talk Covid apologies ... and reparations

2 November 2022 10:00 am

If you are unvaccinated, don’t expect apologies anytime soon. Little did I, or anyone else, know three years ago that…

Decline and Fall: Biden embraces childhood trans rights

2 November 2022 8:00 am

There was a time not so long ago when educated men and women read Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and…

Jack the Insider is out of bounds

2 November 2022 4:00 am

For the past two and a half years, Jack the Insider (Peter Hoysted), through his columns in the Australian, has waged…

Labor abstains from nuclear weapons treaty

1 November 2022 1:17 pm

The big news this week on the nuclear front was not the announcement of a reactor to save Australia from…

Newspeak sabotaged the West

1 November 2022 10:00 am

As the probability of war in the Indo-Pacific rises, Australia consciously jeopardises its energy security. In America, where a revolution…

Diamonds are forever: Andrews puts a ring on it

1 November 2022 8:00 am

‘Bottom of the barrel politics’ is nothing new to Victorian Labor Leader Daniel Michael Andrews. He loves the contest and…

Victorian Labor: waste and rorts

1 November 2022 6:00 am

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ announcement that industry super funds will support the socialisation of the energy grid will create the…

The kids aren’t alright

1 November 2022 4:00 am

The Age of Anxiety has dawned. While this may be easy to dismiss as a natural corollary of the recent…

Lobster bisque

31 October 2022 3:14 pm

The doomed politics of Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew (Matt?) Guy

From mottos to slogans: the West is slipping

31 October 2022 1:00 pm

During a particularly long queue at Heathrow Airport – awaiting the pleasure of a malevolent little man, manhandling my personal…

US moves to end overfishing

31 October 2022 11:00 am

As environmental awareness grows across the globe, there is one area of sustainability we don’t hear much about – the…

Locking up the world’s most liveable city

31 October 2022 10:00 am

Victorian’s considering voting for a Labor government in next state election need to wake up and consider how the last…

The tribe has spoken

31 October 2022 6:00 am

Once upon a time, sport was an international language. A child kicking a soccer ball in Argentina could communicate in…

HSBC’s greenwashing and the myth of stakeholder capitalism

31 October 2022 4:00 am

Oh, the irony! Five months after infamously standing down its Head of Responsible Investment, Stuart Kirk, to appease a few…

Tribel war

30 October 2022 6:32 pm

When Elon Musk opened the birdcage, the Wokest twits flew straight into the waiting prison cell of hard-left-leaning social media…

Climate Change Police: the new CCP

30 October 2022 12:00 pm

The Climate Change Police. It sounds like a concept from the latest sci-fi, techno-thriller, or dystopian novel – doesn’t it?…

The cancer of Christianophobia

30 October 2022 10:00 am

Mulling over the recent Andrew Thorburn injustice, I reflected on a photo on my computer. Say ‘Hello’ to a boy…

Biology refuses to play along

30 October 2022 4:00 am

A company that sells tampons has been accused of lying in advertisements that insist ‘only women can have periods’. They…

Gale force hypocrisy: German Greens kill wind farm for coal mine

29 October 2022 7:07 pm

The world laughed last week when news spread that the Green-run government of Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia approved the removal of…

It’s what’s under the hood that matters

29 October 2022 3:14 pm

What does an out-of-control self-driving electric vehicle have in common with the self-identification movement? Both are headed for disaster...

The Olympics and World Cup Soccer – can we afford it?

29 October 2022 1:50 pm

As the Tokyo Olympics wound down, enthusiasm for the Olympic Games persisted, but there is a downside to the acceptance…

Northern Territory is set to abolish religious freedom

29 October 2022 12:02 pm

Proposed amendments to Northern Territory 1992 anti-discrimination legislation is set to abolish religious freedom, as well as erode freedom of speech. The…

Victoria’s infrastructure con job

29 October 2022 8:29 am

Some things in life are just too good to be true: often we spot them, but sometimes we don’t. If…

Cultural safety and confusion training

29 October 2022 5:00 am

‘What is a white person? And what is this “whiteness” you speak of?’ Since the full-day Cultural Safety and Respect…