Flat White

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

Eco warriors silent on Nord Stream

30 September 2022 9:18 pm

Suspicious damage to Nord Stream’s two gas pipelines is already being used as a pretext to justify increased escalation over…

War in the Pacific: Australia’s Sino-American fallacy

30 September 2022 12:00 pm

The Chinese Communist Party is gnashing its teeth at the theater of history, desperate to enter stage left as King,…

Trashing men in the movies

30 September 2022 11:00 am

It was never going to be my cup of tea. Here was a play proclaimed by a London reviewer as…

Australia’s vaping experiment has failed

30 September 2022 8:00 am

The Australian government’s medical, prescription-only model for nicotine vaping was introduced on October 1, 2021, and has been a resounding policy failure.…

Political gaslighting

30 September 2022 4:00 am

When it comes to political analysis, Shakespeare may not get the credit he deserves. One of his most memorable lines…

NSW: holding Farage to ransom

29 September 2022 7:09 pm

There’s something pitiful about the ‘great state of NSW’ knotting its knickers over a political figure that passes as a…

Paying the rent with our national parks

29 September 2022 2:50 pm

‘The NSW Government recognises that land title is central to the development of a new model for Aboriginal joint management. Accordingly,…

Why I voted for Giorgia Meloni

29 September 2022 12:34 pm

As an Italian citizen resident abroad, I have the right to vote in Italian elections and referenda. While in past…

Social licences for law firms

29 September 2022 8:00 am

There is something very frightening about the future of society if law firms are expected to maintain their ‘social licences…

Climate anxiety is free to disrupt

29 September 2022 4:00 am

By backing in the worst extremes of climate hysteria, Australian courts – and our justice system in general – are…

Meloni’s Italy scares the Woke

28 September 2022 2:05 pm

There are going to be a lot of ridiculous headlines as hysterical left-wing publications come to terms with the (presumed)…

Red tape locks pensioners out of work

28 September 2022 11:00 am

On the campaign trail, now Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stressed repeatedly that his government would ‘change the way that politics…

Biology will decide this

28 September 2022 10:00 am

The end of radical feminism cannot come soon enough

What about Armenia?

28 September 2022 8:00 am

Recently, a few hundred Australians of Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian descent took to the streets of Sydney’s CBD to protest…

FitzSimons and Price won’t see eye to eye

28 September 2022 4:00 am

Public discourse is under threat, and ironically, the progressive cause is to blame.  This was exemplified by the recent spat…

Recalling the Governor-General

27 September 2022 12:30 pm

It was Whitlam, not Kerr, who defied Parliament in 1975

No, Albo. We don’t need more women at work

27 September 2022 11:00 am

Unsurprisingly, one of the things to come out of the recent Jobs and Skills Summit was a greater emphasis on women in…

Only a fool would ditch the Crown

27 September 2022 8:00 am

The criticism of last week’s National Day of Mourning for Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and the media coverage…

Get your ‘science’ out of my face

27 September 2022 4:00 am

As if we haven’t had enough of politicians in our faces in the Peoples Republic of Victoria in the last…

Cuba: the communist climate criminal kids ignore

26 September 2022 3:44 pm

When it comes to socialist and communist dictatorships, environmental groups fall silent. There is an unwillingness to criticise these oil-heavy…

McSteamy to Scary?

26 September 2022 12:30 pm

When Brett Sutton shot to fame in the wake of the Covid outbreak I admit I fell for him. Hook,…

Argentina’s socialist demons are coming for the West

26 September 2022 10:00 am

How did we arrive at the position where, throughout the Western world, political decisions to undermine the cheapest and most…

The Muzak of activism

26 September 2022 8:00 am

Last week I heard the song Beds are Burning played at least three times in the space of a few…

Iranian women fight, Western feminists hide

26 September 2022 4:00 am

One of the most powerful speeches I ever heard was delivered in a casual meeting of the NSW Rostrum public…

Roasting Winnie-the-Pooh

25 September 2022 1:49 pm

Is Xi Jinping in trouble, or is this all social media drama?