Flat White

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

Born alive means a patient deserving equal care

17 August 2026 2:41 pm

Human rights cannot depend upon whether someone’s birth was intended

Iran’s quagmire, and why it is locked

17 August 2026 2:06 pm

Many see the current situation in the Iran war as merely a failure of clear strategy on the part of…

Labor’s distraction

17 August 2026 1:03 pm

A gun buyback scheme to mask their policy of tolerating antisemitism

Australian education has become very good at everything except education

17 August 2026 10:20 am

How did one of the wealthiest countries in the world manage to go backwards?

Textbooks will be written about how Australia turned into Argentina

16 August 2026 6:41 pm

And the eSafety Commissioner will rush in to ban them

Who are the real ‘free press’?

16 August 2026 4:40 pm

Why are major party politicians and legacy media terrified of podcasters?

Another week, another renewable energy subsidy

16 August 2026 3:23 pm

Labor is putting their hand in your pocket to keep green energy alive

Students waste their time and energy protesting Pauline

16 August 2026 2:37 pm

Political passion in the young is not the problem. Its direction is...

The Pauline protests: a day out during Mao’s cultural revolution

16 August 2026 10:30 am

This is the opposite of democracy. This is fascism and communism to the core...

Does Victoria have the guts to go blue?

15 August 2026 9:52 pm

Surely Victoria cannot endure another term of Labor, but will they vote conservative?

Ben Carroll’s Union power play

15 August 2026 3:23 pm

The Victorian Labor government moves bill to outlaw Red Union

Identity politics is modern communism

15 August 2026 1:26 pm

How progressive politics unpicked Western Enlightenment one dangerous idea at a time

Latest polling reveals path to victory for conservatives

15 August 2026 12:23 pm

With the right split between One Nation, the Liberals, and Nationals ... victory has become a complex calculation of preferences

Government to hand more power to eSafety Commissioner

14 August 2026 11:09 pm

The regulator’s own record is reason enough not to trust it with more powers

Taking out the trash

14 August 2026 8:09 pm

Reform Leader Nigel Farage enjoys substantial victory over Count Binface in Clacton by-election

Make Australian genealogy affordable

14 August 2026 4:34 pm

As Australia’s 250th anniversary approaches, let’s make it cheaper for Australians to access the records that reveal their family’s story

New Victorian Premier Carroll backs away from unworkable WFH laws

14 August 2026 1:29 pm

The last thing Victoria needed was a confusing, heavy-handed, productivity-destroying and investment-sapping law

Melon jokes cannot fix Labor’s man problem

14 August 2026 1:14 pm

Cringe blokey jokes will not make Labor more appealing to the young men it has left behind

Japanese melons and the malaise of modern politics

13 August 2026 11:27 pm

Anthony Albanese has taken Labor down a ‘low road’ only to find no handy exits on the way

A modern-day Odyssey

13 August 2026 1:30 am

Lessons Australia is only now beginning to learn

The curious case of the wrong feelings

13 August 2026 1:00 am

The rise of One Nation is not occurring because millions of Australians have suddenly stopped thinking

WA Parliament should keep the Lord’s Prayer

13 August 2026 12:30 am

It is a solemn symbol of the foundational Judeo-Christian values that made our liberal democracy possible

The One Nation of our discontent

12 August 2026 8:08 pm

The major parties do not grasp how deeply they are hated. That is because the political class is not merely out of touch. It lives in a different world...

Strategy of the pro-Australia parties to the next election

12 August 2026 6:53 pm

If they cannot say something good about One Nation, they should say nothing at all

Iran containment has failed; Europe must enable the transition

12 August 2026 4:49 pm

A democratic and secular Iran would remove one of the main drivers of regional instability and mass migration into Europe