Flat White Quick Shots

The mindblowing cost of lockdown: we hope it was worth it, quarantine workers

7 August 2020 7:09 pm

Out today: the latest figures for the cost of lockdown in Danandrewstan. Mindblowing. $15 billion for the Jobkeeper extension. $12…

That aged well, didn’t it?

2 August 2020 8:38 pm

Special acknowledgements for 2020 vision on 2020 from Van Badham, one of that unique breed of large ‘n’ loud Melbourne…

Can Adam Bandt count?

1 August 2020 4:26 pm

Another day, another begging letter from the Greens. Another begging letter filled with complete bollocks. Herr Doktor Senator Adam Bandt’s…

How soon until we’re told that they’re the real victims?

30 July 2020 7:37 pm

It’s been the outrage story of the day, the tale of walking arguments against lip filler and botox Olivia Muranga…

Priorities, priorities…

29 July 2020 12:29 pm

What’s a little virus with just 295 new cases today? Life, as well as death, goes on in Danandrewstan —…

How white were my Greens?

26 July 2020 3:10 pm

We all know the terrible truth about the Greens; that for all their noise and posturing, they’re largely Julian Burnside…

Here is a coronavirus update from your friendly public health experts

19 July 2020 1:52 pm

Hello. We’re from the government: And we’re here to confuse help you: Illustration: Katja Motion Picture Corporation/Krevoy/Stabler/Wessler Production/New Line Cinema.…

EXCLUSIVE: Ripping off Clinton fits the bill for flailing Albo?

16 July 2020 12:30 pm

Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow. Or about how you can hold on to your job, anyway, if you happened to…

Extinction Rebellion’s shameful cultural appropriation

14 July 2020 3:30 pm

Extinction Rebellion are boasting about their latest little piece of absurdist street theatre, a protest outside Energy Minister Angus Taylor’s…

Oh my God, I’ve offended the ancient Mayans!

13 July 2020 4:45 pm

Just when you think the world can’t get madder, it does. The SMAge (where else?) reports: Actor and writer Michelle…

And the winner is Syd-en-ney

6 July 2020 7:20 pm

It’s miserable in Melbourne today. At the time of writing, the rain has apparently turned to constant drizzle, but the…

The Greens defence policy? Smile and say “Nĭ hăo”

4 July 2020 4:51 pm

How did the Greens react to this week’s defence announcement by the PM? With all the logic you’d expect from…

So Albo’s safe from a Bill Shorten challenge – for now?

30 June 2020 3:00 pm

It’s fair to say that things are pretty awkward at the top of the ALP right now. Jim Chalmers is…

So that’s what was wrong with the ABC?

24 June 2020 2:53 pm

The SMAge reports on the deep thinking contained in the ABC’s five-year plan (funny they should choose that name), unveiled…

Here’s a new group you never even knew you were offending

22 June 2020 6:00 pm

BIPOC. We first read it as “biopic”, since it appeared in The SMAge in an article on the Sydney Film…

The proud, progressive record of the Bandtifa and Indigenous representation in parliament. Not

20 June 2020 3:45 pm

1971: Neville Bonner, an elder of the Jagera people, is appointed by the Queensland parliament to fill a Liberal casual…

SCOOP: Grovels from Danandrewstan

17 June 2020 7:58 pm

Let’s face it. With current coronavirus restrictions, you’re unlikely to get a “Greetings from Victoria” postcard any time soon —…

Activist ignorance matters

17 June 2020 3:44 pm

Which prime minister oversaw the passage of the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, the legislative basis of the White Australia policy? Which…

Cook statue vandalism: one of these reports is not like the others

15 June 2020 1:09 pm

In the early hours of yesterday, the statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s Hyde Park was vandalised, allegedly by…

Albo lives matter?

12 June 2020 12:39 pm

You read it here first… Whatever you can say about Canberra’s shinybums, they have their ears to the ground. It’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Extinction Rebellion’s shameful Holocaust memorial appropriation

11 June 2020 5:46 pm

One of the most poignant and best know memorial to the Holocaust is a sculpture in Budapest, Hungary, entitled Shoes…

The(ir) ABC: it’s “appropriate that reasonable people of faith begin to refer to Trump as antichrist”.

10 June 2020 10:36 am

Don’t just jot it in your diary. Mark it in the annals of history; the day the ABC once and…

The ABC of protesting

6 June 2020 2:26 pm

Come along, it will be a riot. Here is the story that proves once and for all that the Staff…

White opportunism matters

5 June 2020 7:28 pm

Well, well, well. Look at what we have here. Gatecrashers. Extinction Rebellion gatecrashers. Look at the latest email from Mother…

He don’t need no education

2 June 2020 4:33 pm

The Greens are not known for their originality. When the Coalition accepts Labor amendments to any measure that they approve…